With the expansion of college enrollment and the deepening of education system reform, there are more and more poor students on campus. Compared with normal students, poor students have great psychological pressure, unstable thoughts and changeable emotions, and their views on society are often extreme, and they tend to go to extremes when things happen. These unhealthy mental states are extremely unfavorable to their growth. Therefore, it is of great significance to guide them correctly and do their ideological and political education well. On the other hand, poor students are often introverted and autistic, unwilling to exchange ideas with teachers and classmates, and it is more difficult to do their ideological work. To do this work well, we must accurately grasp their ideological and psychological characteristics and suit the remedy to the case. Psychological characteristics and causes of poor college students 1, inferiority complex. Inferiority is a kind of psychology that poor students are most likely to have, and this psychological state becomes more and more serious after entering the university. In middle school, students often come from the same area, and the economic gap and pressure are not too great. They are all in intense study and have no time to take into account the gap between the rich and the poor. After entering the university, students come from all over the world, and the gap in family conditions will also increase. Due to the reduction of study pressure, students will pay more attention to consumption and show their individuality. At this time, poor students will appear backward and shabby in consumption, dress and daily life, and after a long time, they will have their own psychology of being inferior to others. It is worth pointing out that this inferiority complex is often intertwined with excessive self-esteem, and students become too sensitive and pay attention to what others think of themselves. Therefore, when interacting with people, they are afraid that others will know that they are poor, and they often hide it by avoiding it. Over time, he became withdrawn, psychologically closed, afraid to face difficulties and pressures and escape from reality. 2. anxiety. The difficulties that poor students need to face are very direct and realistic, and the sources of tuition and living expenses need to be solved, so that they are often in a state of anxiety. In extreme cases, excessive anxiety leads to the collapse of psychological defense, which often leads to abnormal behavior. 3. Social injustice distorts the psychology of poor students. Poor families are often vulnerable groups in society, and they are often treated unfairly and their interests are violated. As college students, they feel that they should do something to change the status quo, but they are often powerless. This kind of pain often seriously distorts their young hearts and produces a kind of complaint or even hatred for society. On the other hand, because they are at the lower level of society and have heard and witnessed many unfair phenomena, they will think that society is unfair and the law is just a dead letter. This will easily weaken their legal awareness, and once they encounter a trigger opportunity, they will do illegal things for their own interests, regardless of violating moral principles. 4, extreme thinking, suicidal, world-weary. Some poor students lose self-confidence in the face of difficulties and pressures, and even go to extremes in their thoughts, showing that they don't like any phenomenon in society and schools, are cynical, have extreme thoughts, nag all day, are full of grievances, feel that life is boring, some seek sustenance by skipping classes through drinking, and a few even have suicidal thoughts. Based on the above analysis, to do a good job in ideological and political education for poor students in colleges and universities, we must do it both mentally and materially, not only to help poor students solve practical difficulties in their study and life, but also to let them get rid of the shadow psychologically and build up their confidence in life. The specific work can be carried out in the following aspects: 1, reasonably using the national aid system to solve students' practical difficulties. In order to solve the problem of poor students going to college, the state has established a student financial aid system in colleges and universities with various measures such as awards, loans, diligence, compensation and reduction. How to make good use of this system and maximize its effectiveness is a problem that college counselors need to seriously consider. First of all, counselors must thoroughly understand the actual situation of students, so that the students who need the most funding can get the greatest help; Secondly, counselors should guide students to use grants correctly and use them where they are most needed in a planned way, instead of just paying attention to food and clothing and having more money than their classmates. 2, broaden the channels of work-study programs, and guide students to actively and orderly participate in work-study programs. At present, colleges and universities can provide fewer jobs for work-study programs, and the stability is relatively poor. Some jobs are relatively humble, while poor students are unwilling or afraid to apply for jobs such as restaurant waiters, sweeping floors in enterprises or schools because they are too sensitive and afraid of losing face. In view of this situation, on the one hand, counselors should rely on the strength of the school, give full play to the advantages of college students, and take the way of going out and inviting in to find more jobs suitable for college students in society. On the other hand, educate students to establish correct concepts, dispel students' psychological obstacles and bravely accept less "decent" jobs. It should be noted that the arrangement of work-study programs must be reasonable and appropriate. College students should still focus on learning. Work-study programs should not take up too much study and rest time, which will affect their studies and lead them into another problem. 3. Strengthen ideological education and guidance for poor students. While helping poor students solve their material difficulties, it is more important to solve their psychological problems, help them get out of the shadow of inferiority and build up their self-confidence. First of all, we should strengthen the education of self-esteem, self-improvement, self-reliance, self-love and social responsibility for poor students; Higher education is a kind of self-investment in life, and adult college students have the responsibility to pay for this investment; Suffering and adversity are a tempering of personal will and a wealth of life. Let students realize that although there are some difficulties in college students' employment at present, a college student with scientific and cultural knowledge and strong will has a competitive advantage in society and a bright future. Secondly, the poor students are given psychological counseling on setbacks and personality improvement, so that they can learn to adjust themselves, treat the setbacks in life correctly, meet the challenges of life with a positive and optimistic attitude, and face difficulties with an open mind. 4. Combine the education of "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces", vigorously advocate the new fashion of comparing thoughts and learning, and resist the influence of bad social atmosphere on students' thoughts. Combined with the nationwide "eight honors and eight disgraces" education activities, counselors can set an example of good study and positive thinking in classes and grades, so that such students can gain universal respect and praise, give priority to these students when evaluating advanced, and gradually create a good atmosphere among students than learning and thinking; In view of some bad ostentation and extravagance phenomena in society, this paper analyzes its disadvantages in detail, points out the harm to growing college students, and makes everyone despise this kind of behavior. Many successful entrepreneurs have made great achievements through hard work. What's more, many people continue to maintain the style of hard work and frugality after they get rich, because they deeply know that the spirit of hard work is the foundation of their entrepreneurship. 5. Be intimate friends with poor students and let them get out of their closed selves. As mentioned above, poor students are often self-enclosed and unwilling to open their hearts to communicate with the outside world, which is not conducive to the formation of their independent personality and the establishment of harmonious natural interpersonal relationships, and is also not conducive to their psychological shadow of inferiority. Treat and care for them sincerely, make friends, have heart-to-heart talks, and move people with emotion. It is easier to remove their psychological barriers and let them go out of themselves, express their thoughts and integrate into the group. At the same time, we should fully respect their personality, and don't let them feel that you are deliberately pitying and helping them, otherwise they will feel looked down upon and hurt, which will lead to rebellious psychology. We must be more careful and patient when dealing with poor students. Poor students are sensitive and unwilling to ask for help when they encounter difficulties. As counselors, we should deeply understand their life and study, carefully observe their emotional changes, be sensitive to their difficulties and psychological confusion, and provide necessary help and psychological counseling in time. On the other hand, solving the psychological problems of poor students is a long-term process. Their psychological problems are complex and diverse. Solving one will lead to another. Sometimes they work hard, but they may not get good results. This requires counselors to be patient, not to have the idea of once and for all, not to lose confidence when the work is not progressing, but to persist for a long time. I believe that through the unremitting efforts of counselors, poor students will eventually open their hearts and get out of the psychological shadow. The problem of poor students is a social problem. The final solution of this problem depends on the deepening of education reform and social development, and requires the joint efforts of all sectors of society and poor students themselves. This paper only makes a preliminary analysis and discussion on this problem and its solution from the perspective of the class teacher in colleges and universities. I believe that with the progress of society, with the increasing attention and concern of the party and the country on this issue, the problem of poor students will be solved, and poor college students will rise from the predicament and become the pillars of the country, making progress and growing together with the motherland!