Shih-Yun Wang
Graduate Institute of Multicultural Education, Department of Curriculum Design and Human Potentials Development , National Dong Hwa University
In Taiwan, the Ministry of Education’s “Tertiary Prevention of Depression and Self-harm in Students” considers “discovering intensive- concern students” a key task. Text screening is a cognitive map used by teachers to discover students’ depression, and allows experts to carry out interdisciplinary collaboration with schools, thus forming “professional-case” power relationships with students. As such,the co-regulatory mechanism can be implemented to monitoring students’ mental health both on and off campus. This study conducted field investigations, recordings, and interviews over consecutive three years in workshops and training programs, as well as directly on campuses. By seeking to understand the work procedures, this study examines the details and problems within the operations of student mental-health monitoring.
Keywords: intensive-concern students, suicide/self-harm prevention,depression, textual governance, institutional ethnography