1. Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is the need of current school education, and it is a preventive needle to avoid all kinds of emergencies, maintain social unity and stability, the normal operation of schools and the happiness of students' families.
The first sentence of the new moral education outline issued by the State Education Commission clearly points out: "Moral education is political, ideological, moral and psychological health education." Clearly regard mental health education as an important content of moral education. The so-called mental health education refers to adopting various methods and measures according to the laws of psychological activities to maintain individual mental health and cultivate their good psychological quality. From the perspective of mental health, people's psychological state can be divided into three situations or States; Normal state (normal state), unbalanced state (skewed state) and unhealthy or morbid state (abnormal state). It is of practical significance to carry out mental health education among primary and secondary school students to maintain normal psychology, correct abnormal psychology and treat abnormal psychology.
(1) is conducive to the healthy growth of students.
Middle school students are in a period of rapid psychological development and maturity. Therefore, to carry out mental health education and let students understand and master the content of mental health education is to give timely and targeted education and prescribe the right medicine. Let students know what is healthy psychology and what is unhealthy psychology. Maintaining mental health can promote the healthy growth of students.
② It is conducive to the improvement of study and work efficiency.
Healthy psychology plays an important role in the efficiency of study and work, and it is even more important for the play of competition skills. A mentally healthy person is full of vigor, cheerful and optimistic, energetic in study and work, and efficient. However, a mentally unhealthy person is often inattentive, thinking too much, unable to concentrate on study and work, which not only affects the efficiency of life, but also greatly hinders the play of creative talents.
③ Conducive to the harmonious development of intelligence and personality.
Mental health is of great significance for promoting the harmonious development of people's intelligence and personality, exerting people's greatest intelligence and cultivating talents. It is especially important for middle school students in the period of intellectual maturity and personality formation. A person who pays attention to mental health can make the brain in the best condition, give full play to brain functions, develop intelligence and give full play to various abilities, which is conducive to the harmonious development of personality.
④ It is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of mental illness.
The occurrence of mental illness has a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. When we attach importance to students' mental health, we will pay attention to preventing and eliminating various factors that cause psychological diseases, so as to prevent the occurrence and development of pathological changes. Most people's mental illness is gradually formed in the process of growing up and under the influence of various social factors. If students are found to have signs of mental illness, corresponding measures should be taken in time to stop and disappear in the process of quantitative change; If you do suffer from mental illness, you should give active treatment as soon as possible and recover as soon as possible.
2. Carrying out mental health education for primary and secondary school students is the guarantee of students' normal health and all-round development.
From the perspective of individual development, attaching importance to mental health education of primary and secondary school students has three meanings to individual development.
① Promote the success of students' academic career.
Mental health education, first of all, is developmental education, which aims to train students to form good psychological quality in a planned way, which is an important guarantee for their academic success and career success.
② Promote the formation of students' good moral character.
Ideology and morality are generally composed of moral quality, political inclination and code of conduct. In adolescence, ideological and moral development mainly includes two aspects: one is to develop one's own socialist ideals, political views and moral qualities; The second is to cultivate their correct moral evaluation and self-education ability.
In some ways, mental health can be said to be the basis of good thoughts and morals; On the other hand, it is a direct part of them. Therefore, mental health is conducive to the development of teenagers' ideological and moral character.
A mentally healthy person must have a sound personality, and will treat the surrounding environment correctly, love the motherland, love the collective, love the people, love labor, love science, love socialism, work hard, be strict with yourself, be tolerant of others, be helpful and be kind to others. Mentally healthy people are good at dealing with the relationship between people, individuals and collectives, and individuals and society. These are the foundations and components of socialist ideological and moral construction.
Mental health is also conducive to people's positive and optimistic understanding and transformation of the environment. People with mental health often show an open mind, can face the reality optimistically in any environment, face the reality with enterprising spirit, face themselves squarely, adapt to the society and strive to innovate.
Many psychologists have found that all students with psychological problems, who are not good at dealing with various relationships in the collective, may become collective disgust; They are impulsive, impatient, withdrawn, willful and disobedient; Sometimes they show inferiority and world-weariness, and sometimes they show arrogance; They lack desire and interest in activities, are unsociable, can't stand setbacks, are narrow-minded, suspicious and timid. It is difficult for such people to form a good ideology and morality.
(3) Ensure that students live a normal and healthy life and develop into adults.
Carrying out mental health education in primary and secondary schools to keep students healthy is the premise and guarantee for their normal life and development. Mental health education plays an important role in the healthy growth of primary and secondary school students.
3. Mental health education for primary and secondary school students is the need of teenagers' physical and mental development characteristics.
Adolescence is a very special stage. Individuals enter adolescence from childhood, and great changes have taken place in their physical and mental development. First of all, there are two kinds of needs that have an important influence on their psychology and behavior. First, sexual maturity makes teenagers' sexual consciousness and impulse appear; Second, due to the all-round development of the body and the formation of sexual needs, teenagers have a sense of adulthood and a strong need for independence. This is the contradiction between the new demand of adolescence and its psychological maturity and social status level, which is embodied in four aspects:
(1) The contradiction between new sexual needs and social status.
(2) The contradiction between the enhancement of sexual maturity and the lack of psychological and moral preparation.
(3) The contradiction between new independent demand and social status.
④ The contradiction between the new independent demand and the level of psychological maturity.
These specific contradictions in adolescence lead them to show different psychological characteristics from children and many adults in all aspects, which makes them most likely to enter a state of psychological imbalance, and most unlikely to get rid of it through self-regulation or seeking guidance from adults. At the same time, teenagers are close to the activity energy of adults, which stimulates the above contradictory system and is easy to produce contradictions. Therefore, it is particularly urgent to carry out mental health education for teenagers.
4. It is necessary to carry out mental health education for primary and middle school students in the current period of social change.
With the development of recent decades, some changes caused by social changes or some factors that are inevitably bred temporarily will have a negative impact on the psychological state of teenagers.
From the family's point of view, the rising divorce rate, the decrease of family atmosphere and the improper discipline of the only child by the family will all have negative factors on the mental health of teenagers.
From the school's point of view, the pressure of college entrance examination, frequent tests and exams, students' performance rankings, etc. , leading to fierce competition and increased pressure, making young students endlessly fall into an unbalanced state of tension, anxiety, worry and depression.
From the social point of view, the appearance of some pornographic things, the smooth flow of information channels, some unhealthy trends in government departments and the diversification of ideas will also have a negative impact on the mental health of teenagers.
Therefore, it is not only very important but also very urgent to carry out mental health education in primary and secondary schools, which has very important practical significance.