1. Adhere to the principle of combining scientificity with timeliness.
Scientific mental health education in primary and secondary schools should be based on the laws and characteristics of students' physical and mental development, and should follow its own laws. Pay attention to the practicality and timeliness of mental health education in primary and secondary schools. Preventing problems and improving psychological quality are the main tasks of mental health education in primary and secondary schools.
The important way to achieve this goal is to carry out educational practice activities. Practicality should be reflected in the following aspects: First, it is reflected in dealing with and solving various psychological contradictions arising from students' study, life and social activities. The second is to pay attention to students' psychological growth. The third is to understand students from cognitive and emotional aspects.
2. Adhere to the principle of combining development, prevention and crisis intervention.
Promote the mental health development of primary and secondary school students by education, take the mental health development of primary and secondary school students as the guide, and promote the mental health education of primary and secondary schools by the concept of development. To deal with the relationship between development, prevention and crisis intervention, mental health education in primary and secondary schools should do a good job in prevention and crisis intervention, and build a working mechanism of mental health education in primary and secondary schools that combines development, prevention and crisis.
3. Adhere to the principle of facing all students and paying attention to individual differences.
Facing all students is the starting point of mental health education in primary and secondary schools. Mental health education in primary and secondary schools should establish the consciousness of facing all students and carry out mental health education activities in primary and secondary schools from the perspective of facing all students.
Paying attention to individual differences is the requirement of the times of mental health education in primary and secondary schools, and respecting individual differences is the premise of developing mental health education in primary and secondary schools. Mental health education should be carried out according to the characteristics of different students.
4. Adhere to the principle of combining teacher-led and student-centered.
Insisting on teacher-led to ensure the effective development of mental health education in primary and secondary schools, emphasizing teacher-led is conducive to improving the quality of mental health education in primary and secondary schools, and the premise of giving full play to teacher-led role is to improve teachers' self-cultivation.
Adhering to students' subjectivity is an effective way of mental health education in primary and secondary schools, which embodies the key characteristics of mental health education in primary and secondary schools and standardizes teachers' ideas and behaviors in carrying out educational and teaching activities.