Strengthening students' mental health education is one of the basic tasks and responsibilities of school teachers. The key to carrying out all-staff and whole-process mental health education and putting it into practice lies in the attention of school leaders. Meanwhile, as a teacher, what is mental health? What are the principles of mental health education? What do you want? Only by understanding the principle, mastering the law of students' physical and mental development, and being familiar with the contents of mental health education that need to be strengthened at each stage can we carry out targeted education in practice.

The newly revised Outline of Mental Health Education for Primary and Secondary Schools further refines the content of mental health education. According to the outline, the main contents of mental health education include: popularizing mental health knowledge, establishing mental health awareness, understanding psychological adjustment methods, understanding psychological abnormalities and mastering mental health knowledge and skills. Its focus is self-awareness, learning to learn, interpersonal communication, Emotional adjustment, entering a higher school and choosing a job, and adapting to life and society.

Mental health education should proceed from the reality of different regions and the characteristics of students' physical and mental development at different ages, and set specific educational contents step by step.

The lower grades of primary schools mainly include:

1. Help students understand the class, school, daily study and living environment and basic laws;

2. Feel the pleasure of learning knowledge initially, focusing on the cultivation and training of study habits;

3. Cultivate students' polite and friendly communication quality, be willing to communicate with teachers and classmates, and feel friendship in modest and friendly communication;

4. Make students have a sense of security and belonging, and learn self-control initially;

5. Help students adapt to the new environment, new groups and new study life, and establish a sense of discipline, time and rules.

Primary and secondary school grades mainly include:

1. Help students know themselves and know themselves;

2. Initially cultivate students' learning ability, stimulate learning interest and inquiry spirit, establish self-confidence and be willing to learn;

3. Establish a collective consciousness, be good at communicating with classmates and teachers, cultivate the ability to participate in various activities independently, and have a cheerful, gregarious and independent healthy personality;

4. Guide students to feel the joy of solving difficulties in their study and life, and learn to experience and express emotions;

5. Help students to establish a correct sense of role and cultivate their adaptability to different social roles;

6. Enhance the awareness of time management and help students correctly handle the contradiction between study and interest and entertainment.

The upper grades of primary schools mainly include:

1. Help students correctly understand their own advantages and disadvantages and hobbies, and accept themselves in various activities;

2. Pay attention to cultivating students' learning interest and learning ability, correct learning motivation, adjust learning mentality, treat grades correctly and experience the fun of learning success;

3. Carry out primary adolescent education, guide students to engage in appropriate heterosexual communication, establish and maintain good heterosexual peer relations, and expand the scope of interpersonal communication;

4. Help students overcome learning difficulties, correctly face negative emotions such as weariness, and learn to experience and express emotions appropriately and correctly;

5. Actively promote students' prosocial behavior and gradually understand their relationship with society, the country and the world;

6. Cultivate students' ability to analyze and solve problems, and prepare for the study and life in junior high school.