Mental health education is to understand students' psychological characteristics, strengths and limitations through observation and evaluation, correct psychological defects by using various educational psychological means and measures, develop psychological strengths or advantages, develop psychological characteristics needed by modern society, make personality develop in a balanced way and form a sound personality.
Mental health education is an important part of quality education. Mental health is the basis of improving a person's comprehensive quality, and mental health education with the direct purpose of improving psychological quality is undoubtedly the basic project to promote the rapid and all-round development of the educated. From a certain point of view, mental health education should be the premise and foundation of all education, because human behavior is nothing more than physical activity and psychological activity, and the explicit form of physical activity is physical activity, which can be developed through exercise. Psychological activities are hidden, which can be directly expressed in psychological phenomena such as cognition, emotion, will and personality, and can also be expressed in explicit forms such as moral behavior, intelligent behavior, aesthetic behavior and labor behavior. Therefore, moral education, intellectual education, aesthetic education and labor technology education are all components of mental health education, and are the specific contents and ways of mental health education. For example, the ultimate goal of moral education is to cause changes in individual behavior, which in turn depends on changes in psychological activities. These changes include a series of psychological activities such as cognition, emotion, will and personality. Understanding it with reason, moving it with emotion and guiding it with action and perseverance are to solve the problems of moral cognition, moral emotion, moral behavior and moral will. The goal of intellectual education is to master knowledge and develop ability, and the sign of mastering knowledge is to transform the objective knowledge structure into the cognitive structure in the brain, which is itself a process of psychological activity, and the changes it causes are also psychological changes. It is not difficult to see that moral education, intellectual education, aesthetic education and labor technology education are all psychological quality education in the final analysis. The development of psychological quality can be realized through moral education, intellectual education, aesthetic education and labor technology education, as well as through direct training and cultivation of cognition, emotion, will and personality. The latter is often more direct and effective.