Mental health education refers to adopting various methods and measures according to the law of people's psychological activities, mobilizing all internal and external positive factors, maintaining individual mental health and cultivating their good psychological quality. The current middle school moral education syllabus has included individual psychological quality and ability education, and clearly stipulates that mental health education in middle school is one of the important tasks of middle school moral education.

The special psychological state determined by the special age stage, study and living environment and the information-based social environment of reform and opening up determines that their psychological changes and development are in an unstable stage. At this stage, whether students' mental health can be guaranteed and improved will directly affect their all-round and healthy physical and mental development and have a far-reaching impact on their lives.

Principles of mental health teaching

1, difference principle

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.

2, 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.