The Ministry of Education's Opinions on Strengthening Mental Health Education for Primary and Secondary School Students defines mental health education:

Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an educational activity to cultivate students' good psychological quality, promote their all-round and harmonious development and improve their overall quality by using relevant psychological education methods and means according to the characteristics of their physical and mental development. It is an important part of quality education and an important link to implement the cross-century quality education project and cultivate cross-century high-quality talents. [Edit this paragraph] The first function of mental health education is to promote students' physical and mental health and all-round development.

1, mental health education is conducive to promoting students' physical and mental health.

2. Carrying out mental health education will help students to form a sound personality.

3. Developing mental health education is conducive to improving students' adaptability.

Second, promote the comprehensive implementation of quality education in schools.

1, mental health education is conducive to achieving educational goals.

2. Carrying out mental health education is helpful to reduce the learning burden.

3. Developing mental health education is conducive to the implementation of innovative education.

Third, promote social civilization and progress.

1, mental health education is conducive to the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

2. Carrying out mental health education is conducive to the stability and harmony of the social situation [Edit this paragraph] The overall goal of mental health education is to improve the psychological quality of all students, fully develop their potential, cultivate their optimistic psychological quality and promote the sound development of their personality.

Specific objectives: to help students understand themselves correctly, enhance their ability of self-adjustment, tolerance of setbacks and adaptation to the environment, cultivate students' sound personality and good individual psychological quality, and provide scientific psychological consultation and counseling for a few students with psychological behavior problems and psychological barriers, so that they can get rid of obstacles and adjust themselves as soon as possible, form healthy psychological quality and improve their mental health level. [Edit this paragraph] The task of mental health education is to provide preventive and developmental mental health education to all students.

Two, for a small number of students with psychological problems and psychological barriers, to carry out remedial and corrective psychological counseling and counseling.

Third, the face of teachers and parents to carry out mental health education, so as to promote the development of students' mental health [edit this paragraph] The basic principles of mental health education are:

First, the principle of education

The principle of education means that educators should put forward positive and pertinent analysis according to the specific situation in the process of mental health education, always pay attention to cultivating students' enterprising spirit and help students establish a correct outlook on life, values and world outlook.

Second, the principle of wholeness.

The principle of wholeness means that mental health education should be oriented to all students, and all students are the objects and participants of mental health education. All school education, especially the facilities, plans and activities of mental health education, should focus on the development of all students and take into account the common needs and problems of the vast majority of students.

Third, the principle of difference.

The principle of difference means that mental health education should pay attention to and attach importance to students' individual differences, and carry out various and targeted mental health education activities according to the different needs of different students in order to improve students' mental health level.

Fourth, the principle of subjectivity.

The principle of subjectivity means that mental health education should take students as the main body, so the work should take students as the starting point, and at the same time, it should truly reflect the main position of students, and organically combine teachers' scientific education guidance with students' active participation.

Fifth, the principle of good faith.

The principle of wholeness means that in the process of mental health education, educators should use the viewpoint of system theory to guide educational work, pay attention to the organic connection and integrity of students' activities, conduct a comprehensive investigation and systematic analysis of students' psychological problems, and prevent and overcome the one-sidedness in educational work.

Sixth, the principle of development

The principle of development means that in the process of mental health education, students must be treated with a developmental perspective, which conforms to the characteristics and laws of students' physical and mental development and takes development as the center to promote the maximum development of all students.

Seven. Activity principle

The activity principle means that mental health education should take students as the main body of activities and attach importance to promoting students' development through activities.

Eight. Principle of confidentiality

The principle of confidentiality means that in the process of mental health education, educators have the responsibility to keep students' personal situation and conversation confidential, and students' reputation and privacy should be protected morally and legally.

Fully understand the importance of strengthening mental health education in primary and secondary schools

Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an educational activity to cultivate students' good psychological quality, promote their all-round and harmonious physical and mental development and improve their comprehensive quality by using relevant educational methods and means.

Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an important part of quality education;

Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an important link to implement the action plan of revitalizing education oriented to 2 1 century, implement the cross-century quality education project and cultivate cross-century high-quality talents.

Ways to implement mental health education;

Completely permeates the whole process of school education. Including subject teaching, various educational activities, the work of class teachers, etc.

On the one hand, it is organically combined with the original ideological and moral courses, ideological and political courses and adolescent education and other related teaching contents; On the one hand, we can use activity classes and class team activities to hold special lectures on mental health education.

Carry out psychological counseling and counseling.

Establish communication channels between schools and family mental health education, and optimize the family education environment.

Teachers and conditions of mental health education

Doing a good job in the construction of teachers and improving teachers' mental health level is an important condition to ensure the normal and healthy development of mental health education. Training is an important way to improve teachers' mental health. Through training, on the one hand, you can get a certificate, on the other hand, you must have the qualification certification of a full-time psychological counseling (counseling) teacher. Otherwise, if the professional knowledge and practical ability can't meet the requirements, you can never arrange to be a full-time psychological counseling teacher at will.

Organization and leadership of mental health education: the moral education department or the basic education department of the education administrative departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government is responsible for mental health education in primary and secondary schools. From the autumn of 2000, primary and secondary schools in large and medium-sized cities should gradually carry out mental health education. Primary and secondary schools in small towns and rural areas should also proceed from reality and gradually create conditions to carry out mental health education. (Original 3800 words) Document No.3 of the Ministry of Education [1999].