First of all, positive psychology sublimates the goal of mental health education in colleges and universities.

As a complex systematic project, mental health education in colleges and universities has failed to keep pace with the times in guiding the cultivation of students' positive psychological consciousness. The emergence of positive psychology sublimates the connotation of mental health education from the theoretical and practical levels, advocates looking at everyone with an open and appreciative eye, and emphasizes that psychology should pay attention to studying the positive strength of every ordinary person. Therefore, from the standpoint of positive psychology, mental health education in colleges and universities should pay more attention to the development goals of college students, optimize their psychological quality with positive thoughts and concepts, cultivate sound personality, and make college students actively adapt to society, actively respond to problems and have a positive attitude towards life.

Second, positive psychology enriches the content of mental health education in colleges and universities.

The Ministry of Education's Opinions on Strengthening College Students' Mental Health Education clarifies the contents of mental health education in colleges and universities. Positive psychology can benefit more ordinary college students, so that the attention of psychological teachers can slowly shift from "problem students" to normal students, which can prevent some psychological problems brought by normal students. At present, the content of mental health education can't meet the actual needs of college students. In the traditional mode, mental health education focuses on a few students with psychological problems, and its focus is also on solving psychological problems, ignoring the general student group. Most college students are sunny in mental health, but some "marginal" students need to pay attention to mental health problems. This requires us not only to seek solutions to psychological problems, but also to establish positive psychological quality and realize active prevention of mental health. Positive psychology advocates a brand-new people-oriented value orientation, advocates positive humanity, requires paying attention to the study of people's advantages and positive factors, and advocates a positive and positive explanation of people's psychological phenomena with a positive attitude, so as to tap people's potential ability, and use these positive qualities to help people actively seek a good living condition and achieve the educational purpose of helping others and helping themselves. This value orientation enriches the content of mental health education in colleges and universities from a new angle, guides students to pay more attention to positive events in life, and trains them to deal with possible psychological problems with positive thinking.

Thirdly, positive psychology expands the ways and methods of mental health education in colleges and universities.

Under the background of traditional psychology, the ways and methods of mental health education are too simple, which often distinguish mental health education from other work in school education. The ways and methods adopted are nothing more than offering mental health education courses, conducting various consultations and holding lectures. And positive psychology believes that everyone has great potential, various basic needs, and attaches importance to self-development. This view of human nature determines that the ways and means of mental health education in colleges and universities will develop in a diversified direction. For example, attach importance to the development of teachers and the application of positive psychology, attach importance to the integration of mental health education with other school work, strive to create a relaxed and happy atmosphere, make teachers and students living in it feel satisfied, optimistic and full of hope, and pay full attention to students' positive psychological experience. Positive psychology corrects the one-sidedness of traditional mainstream psychology, attaches importance to the positive aspects of human nature, studies the advantages and values of people, and pays attention to the psychological functions of normal people, thus truly restoring the original functions and missions of psychology. More importantly, positive psychology makes us have a clearer understanding of psychology, that is, psychology should not be a static and closed research system, but should and must shoulder the burden of human survival and development. Under the guidance of positive psychology, psychological science will have a more scientific understanding of human nature and will produce more effective intervention, thus promoting the benign development of individuals, families and society.