Chief Executive Officer of Supreme Counselling for Personal Development Shawn Clarke says more psychological and counselling services are needed in schools to help address the current wave of deviant behaviour among students.Though acknowledging that law enforcement intervention is sometimes needed to deal with particularly serious infractions, Clarke said the lack of holistic counselling services in the island’s schools is a major concern.“I think what is lacking is the resources being made available for these young people in terms of counselling intervention and so on. I am not sure enough resources are going in the direction of psychological services for young people to help them with their rehabilitative process,” he said in an interview with Barbados TODAY.“I still do believe that when young people are suspended from school that there should be a facility that they go to, as opposed to going home unsupervised. With that said, I also know that there is need sometimes to look at the legal aspect of it, because if it is violating the laws of the land then you cannot necessarily allow young people to violate the laws of the land thinking that there will be no consequences to it.”
