Compared with primary and secondary schools, mental health education in vocational schools started late, but developed rapidly. At present, mental health education in vocational schools pays attention to all students, pays attention to students' developmental mental health problems, helps students understand some basic knowledge of mental health, masters the methods of self-regulating emotions and overcoming psychological obstacles, and dares to face up to reality. According to the requirements of the Ministry of Education, the curriculum of mental health education in vocational schools mainly adopts the form of class group psychological consultation, emphasizing the cultivation of students' ability to maintain their own mental health; At the same time, it also pays attention to the combination of group counseling and individual counseling to give individual counseling and guidance to students with serious mental health problems.

Mental health education in vocational schools is based on students' reality, emphasizing the pertinence of educational content, the effectiveness of educational methods, the subjectivity of educational objects and the reality of educational activities, which has achieved remarkable results. At present, the common practice is to combine special lectures with student activities, mental health education with moral education, subject teaching with the work of class teachers, collective education activities with individual counseling, and school education with family education. These measures have promoted the development of mental health education.

Mental health education in vocational schools emphasizes guidance, prevention and intervention. Vocational schools use their own resources and conditions, and use modern management methods such as computers to conduct comprehensive mental health tests on students from the aspects of study, life, growth and vocational adaptation, and then conduct analysis and evaluation to understand and master the psychological status of each student. The establishment of students' psychological health files provides a scientific basis for changing students' bad psychological state and solving students' psychological problems. At the same time, on the basis of mental health test, feedback the test results to the class teacher, so as to teach students in accordance with their aptitude in daily education; Some targeted psychological counseling has made some students have no psychological problems.

To carry out mental health education, we must have a team of high-quality teachers. Mental health education is a complicated and lasting educational project. On the one hand, it requires teachers to have solid knowledge and ability of mental health education; On the other hand, we should maintain our mental health. Therefore, secondary vocational schools should vigorously strengthen the construction of teachers' morality, and at the same time carry out mental health education teacher training in a planned way to improve the overall quality of teachers.

In addition, professional psychologists can also be employed as full-time or part-time psychological counseling teachers in schools, so that mental health education in vocational schools can develop healthily in the right direction while ensuring scientific nature.

The goal of mental health education should be clear and the orientation should be appropriate. The goal of mental health education in vocational schools is to face all students, improve their psychological quality, help them establish correct mental health awareness, cultivate their optimistic psychological quality, enhance their psychological adjustment ability and promote their sound development of personality; Pay attention to the developmental mental health problems encountered by students in their development and growth, enhance their self-confidence and make them learn to cooperate and compete; Cultivate students' professional interest and respect for professional psychological quality, and improve their ability to cope with setbacks and adapt to society. In particular, according to the characteristics of students and their actual needs in growth, study, life and job hunting, we should provide teaching, consulting, counseling and help.

The management of mental health education in vocational schools should be standardized step by step. First, improve the school psychological counseling or counseling institutions, set up full-time psychological counseling posts, establish students' psychological files, pay close attention to students' development, and strengthen the prevention of students' psychological and behavioral problems. Second, we should extensively carry out campus cultural activities, so that students can see their own advantages, enhance communication, improve their self-confidence, adjust their mentality and improve their ability to adapt to the environment. The third is to guide students to adjust their professional psychology, help them consolidate and strengthen their positive emotional experience, enhance their confidence in the future and enthusiasm for life through continuous success, correctly treat their career choice and development, and cultivate their professional interest, dedication and good professional psychological quality.