The Importance of Mental Health —— The Importance of Children's Mental Health Education
Abstract: The society in China is undergoing drastic changes. The change of family structure and parenting style and the acceleration of life rhythm have increased the tension factors in the process of children's growth, leading to a significant increase in children's psychological problems. There are many problems such as ADHD, losing temper, fighting, lying, jealousy, excretory dysfunction, speech disorder, sleep disorder, finger sucking, nail biting, forehead wrinkling, nose picking, clothes biting, willfulness, selfishness, stubbornness, arrogance, timidity, withdrawal, easy crying, over-sensitivity, over-fantasy, inattention, slow response and so on. Children's mental health is not only the absence of mental illness, but also good social adaptability and optimistic attitude towards life.
Keywords: health; Mental health; Mental health education
China Library's Classification Number: G6 12 Document Identification Number: B Document Number:1002-7661(2016) 02-145-02.
Preschool children are in a period of rapid growth and development. Although they already have the basic structure and physiological functions of the human body, their organs and systems are not yet fully developed. They are very sensitive to the influence of the external environment and are easily affected by various unfavorable factors. Implementing mental health care for preschool children, creating and utilizing favorable conditions for children as much as possible, and controlling and eliminating various unfavorable factors are of great significance to promoting children's physical and mental health. Doing a good job in preschool children's mental health can not only eliminate their behavioral problems and psychological obstacles in the bud, but also promote children's normal development in cognition, emotion, will and personality, cultivate sound personality and make them have good social adaptability.
In daily life, a mentally healthy child should be manifested as: energetic; Cheerful, cheerful and optimistic; A proactive attitude; Can live in harmony with children and be welcomed and trusted in the group; Can better adapt to changes in the environment; No bad behaviors or habits; Attention can be concentrated; Sleep well.
Mental health education for children, I think we should start from the following aspects:
First, learn to adjust your emotions.
1, know which requirements are reasonable and which are unreasonable.
Children lose their temper and get angry, largely because their needs are not met. Let them know which needs are reasonable and which needs cannot be met. Unreasonable demands, even if you lose your temper, cry or roll on the ground, will not help.
2. Learn to vent bad emotions reasonably.
If you are frustrated and wronged, you should vent your anger in a reasonable way to relieve your psychological pressure. Instead of hitting people, swearing, smashing things and other ways to vent their anger. Let the child know that unhappy things will happen to everyone, don't think about him, play happily and you will forget everything.
Second, learn social skills.
1, empathy education
Empathy simply means putting yourself in others' shoes, being able to understand others' feelings and feel their pain. Empathy education will make children more compassionate, and they will be more friendly, gregarious and cheerful in dealing with others.
2. Sharing and cooperation
Being good at cooperating and sharing with others is the requirement of the times and the necessary quality for children's future survival and development. We should create more opportunities for children to cooperate and let them know how to share. Sharing is not a loss, but mutual benefit. In daily life, there are many opportunities for children to play and share together, and a series of theme activities can be carried out to let children know through cooperative small production? Cooperation is pleasant, so is helping others to solve difficulties. I give you something good, you are happy, and I am happy? The truth.
3. Appropriate self-evaluation.
Parents or teachers should properly criticize or praise their children, especially those who meet the requirements? Negative behavior, positive people? Taking care of children's self-esteem. In the usual educational activities, we should also pay great attention to the cultivation of children's self-evaluation, so that children can learn to look at others and themselves objectively. For example: in the selection? Good boy? In the activity, give full play to the initiative of the whole class, let them evaluate themselves and choose what everyone agrees with? Good boy? .
Third, cultivate children's good living habits.
Good living habits are conducive to children's emotional fullness and emotional stability.
1, live a regular life
Life is regular, children's eating, drinking, pulling, dispersing, sleeping and playing are arranged in an orderly way, and habits become natural and inherent. Biological clock? Harmonious and smooth operation will ensure children's physical and mental health.
2. Good hygiene habits
Let children develop good hygiene habits, which has a positive effect on maintaining a good mental state and healthy body.
Where did the child's initial willpower come from? From regular life, from good habits. Among them, the most important thing is the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, exercising, acting in an orderly way and being enthusiastic about people; As well as health habits and labor habits; Good habits such as eating on time and watching TV. Education is to form a good habit. As long as children develop good habits, then a good attitude, a good mental outlook and a sense of time will naturally emerge.
Fourth, sex education.
Generally speaking, people think that sex education is aimed at adolescent boys and girls. In fact, parents and caregivers have the responsibility to educate their children about sex from the birth. In fact, whether parents are healthy, positive, unhealthy or negative, they will have an impact on children's sexual psychology.
I think it is normal for children to be interested in sex appeal, just as they are interested in anything they have never seen or played. Adults don't have to make a fuss Let children know the most natural things easily in the most natural and authentic occasions, just like knowing fruits in orchards and crops in farmland, which is of great benefit to children's healthy growth.
First of all, children should be placed in the correct position in the family. Let the children know that they are the children of their parents and the grandchildren of their grandparents. Learn to respect the elderly and parents. Can't do whatever you want and shouldn't play? Little bully? Everything is centered on him, and adults should be polite, polite and disciplined. Children's? Role? Whether you can play well depends on it. Director? . If parents spoil their children, what about their children? Role? Can you play? Don't like it? . Once you lose the protection of your family in the future, you will inevitably encounter more conflicts and trauma in your life, and even lead to tragedy.
Secondly, make the family full of laughter. The child's nervous system is still very fragile, and the mechanism of relieving psychological tension is still very poor, especially the need to feel more family warmth. ? Home and everything? In a harmonious family, respecting the old and caring for the young, caring for each other and caring for each other are conducive to the healthy development of children's psychology. Parents' optimistic, calm and happy emotions can have great attraction to children. Families need laughter, and children need laughter more. If parents are indifferent to their children's feelings, parents are at odds, families break up and children's emotional needs are not compensated, it will affect their mental health.