The importance of children's mental health education-from ancient times to the present, everyone hopes that children can grow up healthily and whether they have the ability to survive in society when they grow up. Also care about children's mental health. When it comes to the development of children's mental health, I have to talk about the significance of mental health in my opinion.
The significance of children's mental health
When talking about the definition of children's mental health, we can't avoid the concept of mental health. What exactly is mental health? Mental health generally refers to a person's normal intelligence, good mood, sound personality, strong adaptability to the environment, good interpersonal coordination, and psychological behavior in line with the standard psychological state of age and characteristics. Specifically, it mainly includes the following aspects.
(1) Have a correct understanding and objective evaluation of yourself. People with mental health will have a conceptual and correct evaluation and understanding of their strengths, weaknesses and personality characteristics. Know what you can do and what is appropriate. For the impossible, we will not be hard on ourselves, we will be practical and let nature take its course.
② People with self-confidence and self-improvement spirit and psychological motivation for self-development generally have clear life goals and self-development driving ability. Therefore, in the face of difficulties and adversity, we can self-organize and adjust our emotions, talk about calmly handling and treating all kinds of complex problems, and keep moving forward.
③ People who can live in harmony with others, are good at coordinating interpersonal relationships and are mentally healthy can adopt a harmonious and friendly attitude towards people and things to restrain their attitude. All kinds of problems and contradictions in interpersonal communication can be handled in a friendly, inclusive and open way, and it is easy to get along with others.
④ People who actively adapt to the needs of the environment and society and are mentally healthy can consciously adjust the relationship between individuals and the environment. It is not that the environment adapts to itself, but that it adapts to the environment. In a complex environment, on the one hand, we maintain our own price and personality characteristics. On the other hand, we should also foster strengths and avoid weaknesses and adapt to the adaptability of environmental needs. No matter in hard adversity or in a smooth environment, you can develop yourself well.
It is difficult to judge a person's mental health with a unified standard. Therefore, general scholars believe that the overall behavioral adaptation should be taken as the benchmark, rather than paying too much attention to the existence of individual symptoms. Understanding the basic connotation of mental health can help us to judge our mental health status and take corresponding mental health care measures to realize the all-round development of body and mind.
Second, children's mental health analysis
Children's psychological education is "child-oriented", that is, children are taken care of as people with equal personality with adults. While caring and caring for children, teachers should never lose these two contemporary humanistic consciousness, such as respect and equality. Teachers don't just squat down to communicate with children. Although the children are young, they can fully feel the love from teachers and mothers.
While caring and caring for children, teachers should never lose these two contemporary humanistic consciousness, such as respect and equality. Teachers don't just squat down to communicate with children. Although the children are young, they can fully feel the "motherly love" care of the teachers. Only in this way can children grow up healthily under the warmth of teachers.
How to pay attention to children's mental health
Children's mental health is the necessary condition of children's complete price and the internal foundation of children's spirit and development. With mental health, children's development will be limited. In its later development, there may be price barriers and mental illness. At present, there are some mental health problems in children's psychology, which are mainly manifested in two aspects: First, they have low tolerance for setbacks and can't stand stumbling. Cry and lose your temper if you are slightly unhappy; Second, it lacks the ability to communicate with others and deal with interpersonal events. For most children, the preferences and opinions of other peers must be considered in everything at home.
The increase of the only child has reduced the opportunities for more and more people to get in touch with the outside world, leading to confusion in interpersonal relationships. As Professor Ding Zan, a psychologist in China, said: "The main purpose of human psychological education is to adapt to the relationship of shrugging, so human psychological diseases are mainly due to the relationship of shrugging." Therefore, as a kindergarten teacher, we should start with children and educate their mental health.
The Importance of Children's Mental Health Education As a kindergarten teacher, in the teaching practice, I found that every child has his own unique personality, and different personality determines the behavior of children to a certain extent. Good personality, such as modesty, unity, caring for public property and being polite, can improve children's interpersonal communication effect and promote their healthy growth; On the other hand, being too naughty, too crying, too impolite and too selfish will hinder teaching and not be conducive to the normal development of children. Personality is a personality in the category of psychology. As a subjective response to the external environment, whether the psychology is normal or not determines whether the behavior of people after responding to the environment is correct or not.
Under the influence of congenital factors, society, family, school and peer groups, and children are the key initial period of human life growth and development, children's mental health has been paid more and more attention by society and schools. The Outline of Preschool Health Education clearly states:? Kindergartens must give priority to protecting children's lives and promoting children's health, and must attach great importance to children's health education. ? As a kindergarten teacher, after long-term communication and understanding with children, I also deeply realized the importance of children's mental health, which has unique value for children's development.
Children's mental health means that their psychological development can reach the normal level of children of the corresponding age, they are cheerful, positive and have no psychological obstacles, and they can adapt to the environment quickly. In practical teaching, it is a common phenomenon that children have emotional and personality problems. Some children's first reaction is crying, and sometimes they may cry for no reason, which will make teachers embarrassed when solving problems and interfere with the normal teaching order; From the perspective of caring for children, all teachers care about what happened in the end and what the children are thinking.
Some children are withdrawn and unsociable. In the short term, this will affect their enthusiasm to cooperate with other peers in learning and doing things. In the long run, it will not be conducive to the development of children's interpersonal communication, nor to the formation of children's future personality. Some children are more emotional and unpredictable, and everything they do depends on their mood. Persuasion or persuasion from others rarely plays a role in controlling one's own behavior.
It is also a difficult task for teachers to keep their emotional stability by attracting children's attention. Other children are more aggressive, because they are young and ignorant, do things according to their own wishes, and have no idea of considering the consequences of their actions. This is very serious. It will not only hurt peers, but also affect themselves, because if peers don't associate with him, then loneliness is more likely to aggravate the development of this aggressive personality.
Many examples show the universality of children's mental health problems. Due to historical reasons, China has neglected the research on children's mental health. Nowadays, due to great changes in natural environment, economic conditions, lifestyle, social culture and many other factors affecting children's health, new unhealthy phenomena have appeared in children's growth and development. Therefore, it is imperative to give them proper education.
It is not difficult to carry out mental health education for children, because children themselves are at the beginning of their lives, and besides having the self-awareness and autonomy that they should have at this age, other plasticity is still great. As a teacher, you should first? Get down? Look at these lovely lives from an equal perspective with children and appreciate them with love.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi said: Children need proper nutrition both physically and psychologically. Only with proper nutrition can they have a high degree of creativity, otherwise their creativity will be weakened or even die? . Proper nutrition, in psychology, obviously refers to the teacher's care for children. Caring will bring children a sense of security and self-confidence, and at the same time form a trust relationship between children and teachers, and promote the healthy development of children's psychology. Secondly, through constant practice, accumulation, speculation and summary, we sum up some universally applicable methods to cultivate children's mental health, which is the fundamental way to put ideas and theories into practice:
1. Interest guidance method. Interest is the best teacher. Explore children's hobbies by understanding their personality. Once hobbies are established, children's attention will naturally be concentrated and their personality will be improved in the pursuit of hobbies.
2. Encouragement method. This is a way of complementary interests. By recognizing and encouraging children's interests, they affirmed their own behavior and satisfied their self-awareness; At the same time, the development of children's hobbies is inseparable from appropriate affirmation and praise.
3. rhetorical questions. As an important communication tool, language should be used reasonably. In the formative period of children's self-analysis and judgment ability, we should put forward appropriate questions and counter-questions, and at the same time give some guidance to help children form correct self-judgment and promote the multi-directional development of thinking.
4. The method of combining leniency with severity. This is very important, because over-management or over-concern is unfavorable to the balanced development of children's mental health. Teachers should always understand their own position, adjust children's different behaviors from a relatively objective perspective, patiently explain and persuade, correct bad behaviors and encourage correct behaviors. The methods are not listed one by one, but they all need to be tested and guided by practice. The premise is that teachers should have a sound and beautiful mind and keep in mind their sense of mission.
As a preschool teacher, you don't have to have a set of advanced educational methods or rich theoretical knowledge, but you must not lack a heart that loves children. Loving children is the basis of doing a good job in education, and understanding children is the premise of doing a good job. We should always grasp the importance of children's mental health, treat children as flowers and water them with true feelings. Children will definitely be smiling faces.