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Collaboration of School Counselor & Librarian - Topic: Mental health and wellbeing of students

Ms. Sayanti, is a well known Counselor in Surat city and has worked for 17-18 years with several leading schools.

In this conversation she talks on how School libraries and librarians can play a role by listening to students, not judging them, highlighting self-help books in the library, maintaining an emotional journal and escalating the cases to professional counselor at the right time. A must watch for every librarian.




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