Thursday, August 27, 2009
1a) List two reasons why teens are reluctant to call helplines despite the promise of anonymity and professional help.
The two reasons are the teens, who are mostly students in secondary 3 and 4, revealed that they would rather not confide in strangers. They also think it is wimpy to call.Of the 46 surveyed, 39 chose friends as one of the top two avenues they would turn to intimes of crisis.Others say that they would speak first to their parents, siblingsor even teachers.Only two said they would dial for help.
b) According to Ms Lily Chu, how does Touch Leadership and Mentoring prefer to help troubled teens?
She said that "we prefer to help the youths through more direct, effective means, such as educational workshops in school, face-to-face counselling and home visit"
2) Have you confided in your friends or family members about the problems you face in school/ life? Why or why not?
No, i think that we as teenagers should solve our own problems. This is because we should be responsibility and learn to solve for our own problems that we face.We must not trouble others so that we may seems to be more mature.When we are grown up, we must face our problems ourself, we don't tend to talk to others about our problems that comes in our life.
Have you been betrayed by your friends before? If yes, how? (You may change the names of the people involved for privacy)
Yes, i've been betrayed by my friends before.This is when i ask my friend to teach me doing my maths homework,but in the end, he teach me the wrong thing. And the next day, i get scolded by my teacher because i do it wrongly.
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