Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an educational activity to cultivate students' good psychological quality, promote students' all-round and harmonious physical and mental development and improve their comprehensive quality by using relevant psychological education methods and means. It is an important part of quality education; It is an important link to implement the education revitalization action plan oriented to 2 1 century, implement the cross-century quality education project and cultivate cross-century high-quality talents.
The main tasks of mental health education in primary and secondary schools are: first, to carry out mental health education for all students, so that students can constantly understand themselves correctly and enhance their ability of self-adjustment, bearing setbacks and adapting to the environment; Cultivate students' sound personality and good individual psychological quality. Second, give scientific and effective psychological consultation and guidance to a few students who have psychological troubles or psychological obstacles, so that they can get rid of obstacles as soon as possible, adjust themselves, improve their mental health and enhance their self-development ability.
Timely and effective mental health education for primary and secondary school students is an inevitable requirement of modern education and an urgent task for educators.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology in the world and the increasingly fierce international competition, to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must strive to train hundreds of millions of high-quality workers and tens of millions of professionals who meet the requirements of modernization. Good psychological quality is an important part of people's all-round quality and a very important content of talents' quality in the future. Contemporary primary and secondary school students are a cross-century generation.
They are in an important period of physical and mental development, and most of them are only children. With the development of physiology and psychology, the increase of competitive pressure, the expansion of social experience and the change of thinking mode, they may encounter or produce various psychological problems in their study, life, interpersonal communication and self-awareness.
Some problems, if not solved in time, will have a negative impact on the healthy growth of students, which will seriously lead to behavioral disorders or personality defects of students. Their healthy growth not only needs a harmonious and relaxed environment, but also needs to help them master the methods and abilities of self-regulation and self-development.