On Feb. 18, the Luohu Family Education Consulting Room began offering family education consultation services at Cuibei Experimental School.
The purpose of the services is to improve parent-child relationships, improve the parents and family education level, and promote the healthy growth of young people. This is all the more urgent because the COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control work has forced many to stay indoors, which increases the odds of family friction between different generations.
The Luohu Family Education Consulting Room, affiliated with Luohu Family Education Guidance Service Center, started trial operations in February this year. It offers telephone and offline consultations to provide personalized family education consultation and guidance services for students and their parents in Luohu.
In addition to informing students and parents in need through schools, the center also sends text messages to all district primary and secondary school parents. As a result, parents can contact schools to make an appointment with the consulting room.
To ensure the professional level of the consulting room, the center hires senior consultants to provide professional family education services. In addition, all the staff of the consulting room have obtained the National Psychological Consultant Qualification Certificate and the Professional Psychological Consultant Certificate certified by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Zhai Wenhong, the vice-chairman of the Shenzhen Association of Psychology Counseling and a registered psychologist, provided the counseling services at Cuibei Experimental on Feb. 18. Parents spoke highly of Zhai's professionalism, and many of them booked future psychological counseling on the spot.
Zhai said, “The Luohu Family Education Guidance Service Center directly introduces professional family education and consultation services into the campus, providing convenient assistance channels for families, and at the same time providing a safe consultation atmosphere for families to pour out their hearts.”
He noted that this practice conforms to the nation’s five-year development plan for family education and plays a leading role in promoting social harmony and stability and maintaining family happiness.
The Luohu Family Education Consulting Room opens every Friday this semester. Parents and students in Luohu can make an appointment for services with the room through the schools' family education principals and psychological teachers.
They can also call the special line for professional psychological guidance and help. The telephone consultation services were opened on Feb. 14, and psychologists can take questions online during working hours from Monday to Sunday. It is closed during statutory holidays.
Luohu is one of the first batches of districts in Shenzhen to carry out family education. Since its establishment in April 2021, the Family Education Guidance Service Center has coordinated with the Moral Education Department of the Luohu Education Bureau to plan and implement family education programs in the district.
The center focuses on the comprehensive family education level and pays attention to individual family cases. The establishment of a Family Education Consulting Room alleviates parents' anxiety to a certain extent and protects the healthy growth of the youth in Luohu.
The consulting room is a pioneer for all districts of Shenzhen. It responds to the call of the Law on Family Education Promotion, demonstrates the innovation consciousness of Luohu, and contributes to the further development of family education in Shenzhen.