The approach is based on oneself, supplemented by school study and activities. Ways and exploration of mental health education for college students: College students are in a critical period of their lives. How to guide college students to adapt to the current developing social environment with positive and normal mental state and strengthen college students' mental health education has become a common concern.

The main ways are as follows:

1. Mental health education refers to that psychological educators exert certain influence on the educated by using psychology, pedagogy principles and psychological counseling theory and technology to help them resolve psychological contradictions, reduce psychological conflicts, relieve psychological pressure, optimize psychological quality, make the educated's mentality develop normally, maintain a good state, form a good personality and ideological quality, and promote the perfection of personality and the all-round development of people.

2. The primary function of mental health education for college students is to promote and maintain mental health, and the basic goal is to help students form a sound personality.

3. The implementation of college students' mental health education should adhere to the principle of combining point with surface, not only for students with psychological barriers, but also for all students; College students' mental health education should pay attention to the combination of classroom education and extracurricular activities education, and the combination of others' help education and self-education.

4. Cultivate a sense of self-worth. A good sense of self-worth is an important resource for individuals to adapt to society, relieve basic anxiety and develop well, so self-worth is the core of mental health. Cultivating college students' sense of self-worth is one of the effective means of mental health education.

Starting from social support, an intermediary variable regulating self-worth and mental health, this paper puts forward four effective support systems: society, school, family and self, in order to promote the development of college students' self-worth and improve their mental health level.