4. 2 Teachers' perception on trauma
4. 2. 1 Teachers' views about training in trauma
counseling
Teachers were asked a number of questions about trauma counseling
and the following table shows their responses.
Table 9: Teachers' responses about trauma
counseling
|
Question
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Frequency
|
percentage
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
|
Q1 Are you trained in guidance and
counselling?
|
4
|
44
|
5
|
56
|
|
Q2 Have you ever had any training in trauma counselling?
|
2
|
22
|
7
|
78
|
|
Q6 Does trauma among some students affects others who are not
traumatized?
|
9
|
100
|
0
|
0
|
|
Q9 (a) Do some teachers get traumatized?
|
1
|
11
|
8
|
93
|
Source: primary data
This table shows the teachers' views about trauma. The
findings show that most of the teacher (56%) are not trained in guidance and
counseling and only 44% are trained in guidance and counseling and among them,
only 2 teachers (22%) are trained in trauma counseling This implies that few
teachers are trained in trauma counseling and this leads to poor mitigation and
handling traumatic events that occur in the school
Table 10: Teachers' views about the occurrence of trauma
in their school
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) Never
|
0
|
0
|
b) Sometimes
|
1
|
11
|
c) Often
|
|
8
|
89
|
|
Source: Primary data
The table below shows that all the teachers agreed that it
occurs many times cases of trauma at KHS, no teacher said that it doesn't occur
and only 11% said that it sometimes occurs cases of trauma at their school and
89 said that it often occurs cases of trauma in their school. .
4. 2. 2 Teachers' views about who help traumatized
students
Teachers were asked their views about who help traumatized
students and their responses are summarized in the table below
Table 11: Teachers' views about who help traumatized
students
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) None
|
0
|
0
|
b) Fellow students
|
4
|
45
|
c) Teachers
|
3
|
33
|
d) Staff in charge of guidance and counselling
|
2
|
22
|
e) Others
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
Source: Primary data
The table below shows that all teachers agree that students in
crisis are helped because none of them said t hat they are not helped; many of
them (45%) said that they are helped by their fellow students, other by
teachers and the staff in charge of guidance and counseling and others said
that they are helped by matron, patron and the masters on duties; and they
continued saying that they are firstly helped by their fellow students who call
the teacher or the counselor when it is necessary.
This indicate that traumatized students are helped by all
individuals within the school and that it may affect the scholar activities
4. 2. 3 Teachers' views about the time students with
trauma take before attending normal classes
Teachers were asked their views about the time that students
with trauma take before attending normal classes in order to seen how trauma
affect daily class attendances and other academic activities. The table above
shows the details
Table 12: Teachers' views about the time students with
trauma take before attending normal classes
|
Responses
|
Frequency
|
Percentage
|
a) One day
|
0
|
0
|
b) Less than 1 week
|
3
|
33
|
c) 1 -2 week
|
3
|
33
|
d) 2 - 3 weeks
|
2
|
22
|
e) More than 3 weeks
|
|
1
|
11
|
|
Source: Primary data
The teachers said that the time students with trauma take
before attending normal classes varies from one student to other, this times
varies, from less than a week to more than 3 weeks. Many of them 66% said that
it this time varies from some days do 3 weeks, 22% said 2 to 3 week. This
indicates that trauma affect teaching-learning process on the side of the
students who have to attend the class and on the hand of the teachers who have
to manage all the students.
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