There have always been a lot of problems in the education system, and with the war they became much more. ZN Education and Science Editor. UA Oksana Onishchenko spoke with the Education Ombudsman of Ukraine Sergey Gorbachev about the most acute problems thrown up by the war in the Ukrainian education system. In particular, the need for psychological support for children has recently been growing.. The educational ombudsman told whether there are enough school psychologists.

The Education Ombudsman Service conducted surveys of adults and children. According to the results of one of them, 83% of children need support and have a poor psychological state.. But among parents, only 26% of respondents said this about their children..

According to the Ombudsman, sometimes adults do not really understand children. They have different maturity of the psyche, different life experiences, different instructions and level of emotions.. Most adults also have a bad psychological state, both due to the war and other circumstances.. Therefore, they can not always notice the state of the child. In addition, according to him, some parents still do not understand why a psychologist is needed, and, accordingly, do not turn to these specialists..

As for the state of the psychological service in Ukrainian schools, there are not enough psychologists in schools, therefore, according to the Ombudsman, the norms for the workload of school psychologists should be reviewed.

“There is an order of the Ministry of Education on tariff rates at school. This is a " So, it says that the rate of a psychologist is paid by the state, if there are more than 300 children in a rural educational institution, and more than 700 students in an urban one. It should not be! Even before the war, we and the associations of psychologists talked a lot about this,” the Ombudsman said..

Gorbachev stressed that a psychologist works with very delicate and emotionally charged situations and problems, and one person simply cannot physically help a team of several thousand, even hundreds of people..

“The old order of the Ministry of Education must be changed. It is necessary to determine that, for example, there should be one psychologist for every 300–500 children in the school,” he said..

“In addition, in order for a psychologist to provide psychological support to a child, parents must agree to the work of a psychologist with a child.. This also complicates the work of a psychologist,” the Ombudsman added..

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