Helping kids thrive: with adequate preparation teachers can be efficient agents for better well-being of children and teens.

Abstract

I am writing from Britain where I'm currently a Jeffrey Cheah Scholar-in-Residence at Brasenose College, University of Oxford for a month, to explore research collaborations at the Department of Experimental Psychology. One of my conversations with a researcher here prompted me to write this article. It went something like this: "How is the CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) like in Malaysia, Alvin?" " We don't have CAMHS, I'm afraid. There isn't enough human resources to form CAMHS," "Oh, then where do children and teenagers with mental health problems go?