Mental health is an important symbol of modern civilization. Therefore, the fundamental goal of mental health education is to comprehensively improve the psychological quality of young students. Specifically, the goal of mental health education includes three aspects: first, to make students form healthy psychological quality; Secondly, we should maintain students' mental health and reduce and avoid all kinds of adverse effects on their mental health; Finally, according to the needs and characteristics of students' growth and development, various forms and methods are adopted to promote students' mental health and improve their mental health level.
Specific to each student, it is to make their personality develop harmoniously, help them treat themselves correctly, accept themselves, know their inner potential and give full play to their personal potential; Help students to establish positive life goals in line with their own development, and cultivate a sense of responsibility, obligation and innovation; Help them learn to understand the environment and correctly handle all kinds of interpersonal relationships, so that they can adapt to the living and learning environment better and faster; Help them master social norms, form good moral quality, positive outlook on life and values, positive emotions and perseverance, develop good behavior habits, make them adapt to school life, and make ideological and psychological preparations for future social needs.
The task of mental health education
In the Opinions on Strengthening Mental Health Education for Primary and Secondary School Students, the Ministry of Education pointed out that the main tasks of mental health education for primary and secondary school students are: first, to carry out mental health education for all students, so that students can correctly understand themselves, enhance their ability of self-adjustment, bear setbacks and adapt to the environment, and cultivate their sound personality and good personality and psychological quality; Second, give scientific and effective psychological counseling and guidance to a few students who have psychological troubles or psychological obstacles, so that they can get rid of obstacles as soon as possible, improve their mental health and enhance their self-development ability.
The Opinions clearly expounds the main tasks of mental health education from a macro perspective, but every teacher who is responsible for students' mental health has the obligation to complete the following tasks: to meet the development needs of students and provide guidance for their physical and mental development; Discover students' psychological and behavioral problems in time to prevent them before they happen. For the universal problems in the process of students' growth, teachers should give guidance and active intervention when they have not appeared or just appeared, so that students can understand and be prepared. Teachers should take timely measures to remedy some negative psychological or psychological behavior problems of students.