What to do next, whether children should go to school, how to behave, how to treat children, these are the questions that arise after the tragedies at the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school and in the villages around Mladenovac.
Psychiatrist Vladimir Diligenski is of the opinion that children should return to classes as soon as possible, divert their thoughts and concentrate on something not related to tragedies.
"Focus on learning, work, because that work itself and focusing attention on something that is useful and different from this immediately brings us back into a rut." Now to elaborate on this as long as possible is something that is useless and will not help those children at all," said Diligenski for RTS.
He advises that the normal rut of life, the everyday and the rut that everyday gives us, are the antidote to the helplessness we collectively feel.
"Secondly, children like to socialize, they have an essential need to socialize and that should not be prevented, because in some way they elaborate on what they have and find the best solution for their learning and to get back on track as soon as possible." , Diligenski points out.
Speaking about how society and the media should treat such events, Diligenski says that there is no need for such great fanfare and that it can be dangerous.
"All the front pages are full, you don't need so much fanfare, you need to get back into your groove and the work you are doing." There are these so-called latents that would do the same, we call it induction which is very common. "When we have a suicide in the ward, and there is a suicide induction, we are so afraid that we immediately sedate all potential patients so that they cannot do something like that, and that process takes at least several weeks," Diligenski explains.
Return to Ribnikar
According to the plan, the students should return to the Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar" tomorrow, but, as announced, without classes. Some parents do not agree with the fact that children start school only a week after the murder of eight students and a school guard.
It is also disputed that the return is announced on Wednesday, the day when the horrific murders took place.
On the other hand, psychiatrists, psychologists, and educational authorities believe that it is necessary to move on and that it is best for the children to be together.
The head of the Belgrade School Administration, Dragan Filipović, explains that the plan for children's return to school was made in cooperation with representatives of the Ministry of Health and experts who have experience in acting in crisis situations. The agreement, he says, is for the students to return to their daily activities as soon as possible.
Psychiatrist for children and youth and psychoanalyst Sabina Jahović believes that it is premature for children to return to school a week after the tragedy, due to potential retraumatization.
For her, it is "terrible" that the children return to school on Wednesday, because a terrible massacre took place on that day.
"I'm afraid that it's Wednesday, why Wednesday? Monday is kind of a normal work day to begin with. "Wednesday is terrible and will be terrible for a long time, because the school was taken for granted that it was a safe place, that the children were safe there, and then a terrifying situation happened," said Jahović in "Impression of the Week".
Also, the parents requested that the school be reconstructed, that the walls be painted in different colors, so that nothing would remind the children of the event of May 3rd and so that they would not go through the trauma again.
BG/RTS/Euronews Srbija/Nova.rs
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