MENTAL DISORDER - AN AWARENESS AMONG TEACHERS: A REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

The purpose of this study is to map the literature on teachers' conceptual understanding
and attitude towards mental disorder in students using metadata extracted from
International and National Research articles as well as several articles from Journals of
International and National editions indexed in the database. More specifically, this study
uses scoping reviews to summarize the existing literature regarding the awareness and
conceptual understanding of teachers towards children's mental health and their attitude
towards those children who are suffering from mental disorders. The review paper also
explores different instructional modules provided to train the teachers in the literature
and their prevalence in identifying the diseases. It further investigates the causes of
mental health concerns in children, what gaps exist in this context of the study, what
interventions can be used to address them, and the barriers to identifying the mentally
disabled and caring for them. This review aims to improve researchers' understanding of
the studies conducted in children's mental health, identify research gaps, and propose
evidence-based justification to summarize the need for research in the same area.