Mental health education is based on the law of students' physiological and psychological development, using psychological education methods to cultivate students' good psychological quality and promote students' comprehensive quality. Mental health education is an important part of quality education: it is an important link to implement the Action Plan for Revitalizing Education Facing 2 1 Century, implement the Cross-century Quality Education Project and cultivate cross-century high-quality talents.

At the same time, it is also an inevitable requirement of modern education to effectively carry out students' mental health education, which is a common urgent task faced by the majority of school educators.

Professor Xiao, the chief expert of China National Fitness Network, believes that psychological education is the abbreviation of psychological quality education and mental health education. It is an educational practice that educators exert positive influence on all aspects of the educated's psychology by using psychological science methods to promote their psychological development and adaptation and maintain their mental health.

Its goal is to cultivate a good personality, develop intellectual potential, enhance psychological adaptability, stimulate internal motivation, maintain mental health and develop good behavior habits. Namely fertility, intelligence, strength, motivation, mental health and guidance.

Paying attention to the cultivation of students' sound personality and healthy psychological quality is the basic spirit of people-oriented and sustainable development. Good personality and psychological quality are the important basis for cultivating correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. To run a school that people are satisfied with, we should first pay attention to students' sound personality and the development of good personality and psychological quality. Mental health education is an important part of implementing quality education.