In today's society, the pace of people's life is accelerating with the rapid development of society, the competition is becoming more and more fierce, and the interpersonal relationship is becoming more and more complicated; People's concept consciousness, emotional attitude and complex evolution. As a part of modern society, college students living and studying in colleges and universities are very sensitive. In addition, college students, as a special social group, have many special problems of their own, such as adapting to the new learning environment and tasks.

The adaptation to major choice and study, the conflict between ideal and reality, the handling and study of interpersonal relationship, the contradiction in love and the choice of future career. How to make them avoid or eliminate psychological pressure, psychological crisis or psychological obstacles caused by the above psychological pressure, improve their physical and mental health, adapt to the current and developing social environment with a positive and normal psychological state, and strengthen the psychological health education of college students has become an urgent problem for us to solve.

First of all, what is the standard of mental health? Mental health means that people have a sense of stability in the internal environment and can adapt to the external environment. In other words, when they encounter any obstacles and difficulties, their psychology will not be out of balance, and they can be overcome by appropriate behavior. This stable and adaptive state is a state of mental health. It is very difficult to measure whether a person's psychology is absolutely healthy. Health is relative, and there is no absolute dividing line. However, college students in contemporary society have more or less shortcomings in this respect, such as weak will, lack of ability to withstand setbacks, adaptability and self-reliance, lack of sense of competition and crisis, lack of self-confidence and strong dependence.

Secondly, the significance of college students' mental health education lies in that mental health education is an effective way to improve students' comprehensive quality. Psychological quality is the inherent feature of psychological stability, including personal mental outlook, temperament, personality and emotion, and it is the basis for the formation and development of other qualities. In the complicated and changeable social environment, maintaining good psychological adaptation is the key to resist temptation, bear setbacks and realize self-adjustment. Mental health education is the basic motive force of students' personality development. Mental health education is closely related to the personality development of the educated, which directly affects the development level of individual personality, enabling them to grasp themselves and evaluate their behavior, thus achieving the purpose of psychological optimization and sound personality.

So, how to educate college students about mental health? I think we should do this,

1, give full play to the role of school psychological counseling. School psychological consultation is an important way to improve students' psychological health and optimize their psychological quality, and it is also an important part of psychological quality education.

2. Carry out mental health survey of freshmen, so as to find and prevent psychological problems at an early stage. So as to put forward targeted educational measures and programs.

3. Infiltrating psychological quality education into the teaching of various disciplines and carrying out psychological quality education through the teaching of various disciplines is not only the way for schools to implement psychological education, but also the inevitable requirement for the teaching development of various disciplines.

4. Offering compulsory courses of psychological education to improve self-education ability. Mastering the corresponding knowledge of psychological quality and systematically learning the knowledge of psychology, hygiene and health will help students understand the law of psychological development, master the methods of psychological adjustment and enhance their self-education ability.

5. Strengthen the construction of campus culture and create a good psychological and social environment for the healthy growth of college students. The cultivation of college students' psychological quality is inseparable from a good campus cultural atmosphere.

2 1 century talents' psychological endurance will undergo a more severe test. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously strengthen the education and cultivation of young college students' comprehensive quality, so that they can truly understand that if they want to occupy the future, they should not only do a good job in ideological and moral reserves, intelligence and physique, but also be psychologically prepared to overcome various difficulties and setbacks, and guide them to scientifically get out of the misunderstanding of self-knowledge, update their concepts and surpass themselves. Only in this way can they soar freely, mature, participate in international talent competition and meet the challenges of the new century.