College students are a special group, and society places high expectations on them. The gradual establishment of the socialist market economic system has brought unprecedented psychological impact to contemporary college students. How to cultivate college students' healthy psychology has become an important topic that ideological and political workers in colleges and universities must seriously study. In recent years, the mental health problems of college students have aroused widespread concern in society. On March 1 day, 2006, the Ministry of Education issued "Opinions on Strengthening Mental Health Education for College Students", demanding that attention be paid to mental health education for college students. In 2003, the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League officially established May 25th of each year as "National Mental Health Day for College and Middle School Students", calling on the whole society to pay attention to universities.
Mental health problems of middle school students. It can be seen that college students' mental health education has been highly valued by the whole society. In order to comprehensively and better promote college students' quality education, fully understand and master their mental health status, comprehensively improve their psychological quality, continuously strengthen mental health education, and make college students adapt to the requirements of society for talent quality, we must actively explore new methods of mental health education for college students. Only in this way can college students' mental health education take a new step.
First of all, we began to analyze the orientation of college students as a special group. At present, China is in an important period of economic development. The development of knowledge economy puts forward higher requirements for talent training and quality education of college students. How to adapt to the needs of social development is an important issue before us. We will analyze and discuss from the following aspects:
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Causes of mental health problems of college students;
College life is the most passionate and colorful period. This period means starting to break away from parents and family, and starting to plan and build their own independent lifestyle and psychological world. This period is what people often say.
The critical period of "psychological weaning" In this process, various contradictions and conflicts are intertwined, and our society is in the background of social transformation and change. Some social influences and their own defects have caused many psychological problems for college students. The data show that the psychological problems or mental disorders of college students such as depression, anxiety, compulsion, interpersonal relationship, personality disorder and mental illness are between 16-30%. The State Education Commission conducted a survey on126,000 college students, and found that 20-23% of them had obvious psychological barriers. Every year, dozens of college students commit suicide because of lovelorn love, failed exams, interpersonal conflicts and frustrated life. In addition, with the increase of only children among college students, psychological problems will become more prominent. First, interpersonal relationship is the primary problem that college students encounter. According to the survey, a considerable number of students lack interpersonal experience and the ability and courage to express themselves and communicate with others in public.
Facing all kinds of activities, I am full of interest and worried about failure. Over time, I even avoided participation, which hindered the establishment of good interpersonal relationships. Secondly, the problem of emotional change. Because of youth, inexperience, extreme views on problems and insufficient understanding of things. Self-control and self-regulation are low, and they are easy to be emotional and moody. When they are in a good mood, they should be reasonable. When you are in a bad mood, people stay away from you.
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Second, academic problems are also a big problem that plagues them. After entering the university, in addition to studying my own professional courses,
I also taught myself some courses urgently needed by the society, coupled with the pressure of minoring, computer and English exams, and I was in a tense and hard study and war for a long time. The pressure is too great and the learning effect is not good. If this goes on, it will cause problems such as nervousness, insomnia and exam anxiety.
Third, the issue of love and sex is also an unavoidable issue. Most college students are in physiological maturity, and their sexual awareness is enhanced. This period is eager to associate with the opposite sex. However, due to the incomplete maturity of sexual psychology and the lack of life experience, the incorrect understanding of adolescent sexual impulses and sexual requirements will lead to some nervous, fearful, shy and even incorrect behaviors. In addition, psychological problems caused by excessive employment competition pressure, family economic difficulties and physical defects are also worthy of attention.
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Mental health education of college students is of great significance to the overall implementation of quality education;
Contemporary college students are the main force of future social construction and the pillar of society. They not only need real talents and practical knowledge that contribute to society, but also need good social adaptability and healthy psychology. College students' mental health education is the need of college students' physical and mental development, which is directly related to the quality of personnel training, the development of China's socialist cause and the improvement of national mental outlook and psychological quality. Carrying out mental health education in colleges and universities is the need to cultivate college students' sound personality and promote the development of their will, personality and temperament. It is the need to adapt to the future social competition, implement quality education and improve and strengthen ideological and political work in colleges and universities. At present, some college students' mental health problems seriously hinder their intellectual potential development, academic progress, the formation of good moral quality and normal interpersonal communication. Therefore, college students' mental health education has become a very important topic in quality education, which is of far-reaching and important significance to China's education and education development. It is an indispensable and important part of the overall implementation of quality education.
Third, measures should be taken to solve the psychological problems of college students:
People's psychological quality is not innate,
It depends on the acquired education and training, and education plays a decisive role in cultivating and improving psychological quality. Our school has made many explorations and attempts in the psychological quality education of college students, and carried out a series of work, which has achieved good results, but there are also many shortcomings to be improved. The following are effective educational measures:
1, give full play to the role of school psychological counseling.
School psychological consultation is an important way to improve students' psychological health and optimize their psychological quality, and it is also an important part of psychological quality education. With the passage of time, psychological counseling has been recognized and accepted by more and more people, and more and more colleges and even middle schools have begun to set up psychological counseling institutions. Psychological counseling can guide students to reduce inner contradictions and conflicts, solve their worries and difficulties, and develop their physical and mental potential. It can also help students understand themselves correctly, grasp themselves and adapt to the external environment effectively. In recent years, the psychological counseling institutions have been continuously improved and the service forms are diverse, which has become the most effective way for college students' psychological quality education.
2. Carry out mental health survey of freshmen to realize early detection and prevention of psychological problems.
The premise of developing psychological quality education is to understand the situation of mastering students' psychological quality, so as to put forward targeted educational measures and programs. Our school conducts a mental health survey of freshmen every year. Students with psychological symptoms were screened out by using the "mental health questionnaire", and they were invited to the psychological counseling center for further diagnosis through interviews and analysis. About 15% freshmen are invited for an interview every year. According to the interview analysis, different types and degrees of problems are distinguished, and different countermeasures are taken to prevent problems before they happen, so that students can find psychological problems early and intervene in time, so that they can get them at the beginning of enrollment.
3. Infiltrate psychological quality education into the teaching of various subjects.
Implementing psychological quality education through teaching in various disciplines is not only the way for schools to implement psychological education, but also the inevitable requirement for the development of teaching in various disciplines. The teaching process of various subjects contains extremely rich psychological education factors. In the process of imparting knowledge, teachers should pay attention to students' psychological needs, stimulate students' interest in learning, and dig deep into the inherent educational significance of knowledge, so that the knowledge, experience and skills formed in human history can be transformed into their own spiritual wealth, into students' ideological views, life values and good psychological quality, thus improving students' comprehensive quality.
4. Offering compulsory courses of psychological education to improve self-education ability.
The improvement of psychological quality is inseparable from the mastery of corresponding knowledge. Systematic study of psychology, hygiene and health is helpful for students to understand the law of psychological development, master psychological adjustment methods and enhance their self-education ability. The effect of psychological quality education depends on the initiative and enthusiasm of students' self-education and the level of students' self-education ability to a great extent. Therefore, psychological quality education is to focus on cultivating students' ability of self-education.
5. Strengthen the construction of campus culture and create a good psychological and social environment for the healthy growth of college students.
The healthy growth of college students is inseparable from a healthy psychological and social environment, and the cultivation of college students' psychological quality is inseparable from a good campus cultural atmosphere. School spirit is an important content of campus culture construction, and it is also an important condition that affects students' psychological development. Good school spirit will subtly optimize students' psychological quality. For example, the school spirit of unity and friendship is the soil for students to form group cohesion and collective sense of honor, which is conducive to maintaining harmonious interpersonal relationships and promoting mutual communication and help among students. Colorful campus cultural activities help to cultivate students' optimistic attitude towards life and healthy and cheerful emotional characteristics. Therefore, schools should attach importance to the construction of campus culture, carry out various forms of cultural and sports activities and academic activities, and form a healthy and upward atmosphere and a relaxed understanding environment, which will help students deepen their self-awareness, fully develop their personality and improve their adaptability.
Fourth, actively explore the effective ways and best methods of mental health education for college students;
Mental health education in colleges and universities is not a special task in a certain period, but an organic part of quality education. The Ministry of Education clearly pointed out in the Opinions on Strengthening College Students' Mental Health Education that college students' mental health education should focus on construction and be education-oriented. Mental health education should take classroom teaching and extracurricular education guidance as the main channels and basic links, and form a mental health education network and system that closely combines classroom and extracurricular, education and guidance, consultation and self-help. In order to implement the work and truly achieve pertinence, effectiveness and initiative, the following aspects should be done well in specific work:
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First, set up mental health education classes. Incorporate mental health education courses into the teaching curriculum system, incorporate mental health education courses into the curriculum plan, and compile teaching materials and study guides according to the mental health development target system, so that mental health education has certain operability, popularize necessary psychology and mental health knowledge, and improve college students' understanding of mental quality education; Stimulate their enthusiasm for actively participating in psychological training activities; Make them have a clear understanding of their situation; According to the psychological problems of college students at different stages, preventive education is carried out. To make them learn self-regulation, the content and form of activities should be scientific, applicable, operable and interesting, so as to improve the attraction and educational ability of mental health education.
Second, optimize the educational environment and carry out various activities. In addition to offering mental health education courses, we should also widely publicize and popularize mental health knowledge by using media such as radio, campus network, hospital newspaper, school magazine and blackboard newspaper. Discuss hot issues of students from time to time, such as freshmen's role adaptation, middle-grade students' learning problems, making friends, and recent graduates' job selection, etc., and hire relevant experts to hold lectures to let students know new knowledge and trends in time, hold mental health activity weeks, and carry out various forms of activities, especially group training, such as will training, adaptation training, role exchange, etc. So as to enhance their sense of participation in the activities.
Third, only by advocating the self-education of the subject, establishing the consciousness of the subject and embodying the participation of the subject can the educational purpose be realized. Therefore, college students' mental health education must also actively advocate self-education. In classroom teaching, teachers should pay attention to inspiring students' psychological quality. In extracurricular education guidance, counselors and teachers pay attention to guiding students to take the initiative to participate in various community activities.
Enable students to continuously improve their abilities of self-survival, self-regulation, self-motivation, self-development and self-cognition, enhance their awareness of self-mental health, learn to use the method of self-psychological adjustment to eliminate psychological confusion, adapt to the changes of complex social environment, and face themselves, the collective and society with a normal heart. Thus, the external educational requirements of "establishing mental health awareness, optimizing psychological quality, enhancing psychological adjustment ability and social life adaptability, and preventing and alleviating psychological problems" are transformed into the conscious actions of college students to pursue mental health.
Fourth, carry out psychological counseling. It is necessary to set up a psychological counseling center to improve the scientific nature of psychological counseling, with professionals sitting in the clinic and formulating rules, regulations and timetables; For some students who need help, use psychology and related theories and technologies to help them stand on their own feet, improve their ability to cope with setbacks and various unfortunate events, or change visitors in some way; At the same time, the psychological differences of college students exist objectively by establishing students' psychological files. Only by establishing psychological files can we prescribe the right medicine in ideological work. Implement a psychological investigation system, find problems in time, feed back information in time, track some students with problems, and transfer some students with particularly serious psychological disorders and mental illness to professional hospitals for corresponding treatment.
Fifth, establish a professional team of mental health education teachers. At present, the ranks of mental health education teachers in Chinese universities are uneven. Some of these teachers are psychology majors, some are medical majors, some are ideological and political education or other majors, and most of them are part-time, with heavy workload, few opportunities for further study and lack of professional ability. It is necessary to train these teachers. In addition, in colleges and universities, counselors and class teachers should be trained in relevant majors to improve their ability to engage in ideological and political work. They can also improve their working methods, discover students' psychological problems in time, and channel, vent and transfer students' psychological problems in college in time. Taking the road of prevention is far better than "mending after the sheep is dead".
To sum up, in order to help college students get rid of all kinds of troubles in adolescence, adapt to all kinds of pressure challenges from study and life, cultivate their sound personality and promote their all-round development, it has become a top priority to popularize mental health education in colleges and universities in China at the right time. College students' mental health education faces complicated environment and arduous tasks. From the international environment, with the rapid development of economic globalization, the integration and conflict, contradiction and confusion of different civilizations, cultures and lifestyles are very prominent; From the domestic environment, with the deepening of the reform of the socialist market economic system, social and economic components, employment methods, distribution methods, interest relations and values are increasingly diversified, and social thoughts are unprecedentedly active.
Variability and complexity; From the development of science and technology, great changes have taken place in information network technology and communication means, and the Internet has become an important channel for college students to acquire knowledge and information and an important field for expressing their thoughts and exchanging feelings.
The research institute has a great influence on college students' psychology; From the perspective of higher education itself, higher education has entered the stage of popularization, and the scale, quality, structure and social status of college students have undergone profound changes.
Self-employment and the gap between the rich and the poor make the psychological problems of contemporary college students more prominent. Mental health education for college students is a long-term and arduous project, which requires the joint efforts of ideological and political educators. In order to promote college students' physical and mental health and all-round development, we must establish a correct concept, take active and effective measures, take college students' health education as a major event, and make new and greater contributions to the healthy growth of students and the progress of human society.