Common psychological crises of college students include developmental psychological crisis, situational psychological crisis, pathological psychological crisis and existential psychological crisis.

Psychological crisis is time-limited, usually lasts for several hours to several weeks, and it is more dangerous, which will lead to individual illness, even physical and mental illness, so special attention is needed, and psychological crisis intervention for college students is indispensable.

Psychological crisis refers to the state of psychological imbalance in the face of sudden or major life events, such as the death of relatives, sudden life-threatening diseases and disasters. And individuals can neither avoid nor solve problems in common ways.

Characteristics of psychological crisis:

1, burst. Crises are often unexpected, sudden and uncontrollable.

2. urgency. The emergence of the crisis has the characteristics of urgency, which requires people to respond urgently.

3. pain. The experience before and after the crisis is painful and may even involve the loss of human dignity.

4. Helpless. The arrival of the crisis often makes people feel at a loss, and the crisis threatens and destroys people's future plans. Because of poor psychological self-help ability and imperfect social psychological support system, crises often make individuals feel helpless.

5. danger. There are dangers in the crisis, which may affect people's normal life and communication, and even endanger the lives of themselves and others.