The Decision of the State Council Central Committee on Deepening Education Reform and Promoting Quality Education in an All-round Way clearly points out that it is necessary to "strengthen students' mental health education, cultivate students' perseverance and spirit of hard struggle, and enhance the ability of young people to adapt to social life." Carrying out mental health education in primary and secondary schools is not only the need of students' healthy growth, but also the need of social development for human quality.
In recent years, due to various changes brought by social development, school education and children's development in China have been impacted and challenged. The survey shows that about15 children and adolescents in primary and secondary schools in China have psychological and behavioral problems of different degrees, such as weariness, truancy, stealing, lying, cheating, selfishness, willfulness, poor frustration tolerance, aggression, withdrawal, anxiety and depression. These psychological and behavioral problems not only seriously affect the healthy development of children and adolescents themselves, but also bring great troubles to the normal education and teaching work, directly affecting the completion of school education tasks and the realization of educational goals.
However, from the current situation, the psychological problems of middle school students have not attracted enough attention. At present, primary and secondary education pays more attention to students' academic performance, but ignores students' psychological development and needs. In the process of our education, we must talk about the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, and the enrollment rate has become the only purpose of school education. Academic performance is everything. From home to school, students study or study, thinking that there is no "business" to do things unrelated to study. Some schools rated "three good students" as "one good student". Our moral education is often centered on learning and aimed at educating students. As a result, some students hate school, avoid studying and even have hatred.
At present, the problems of middle school students are shocking. All kinds of bad phenomena of school students have been repeatedly banned, and all kinds of out-of-control and deviant behaviors have occurred from time to time. There is a similar situation in our school. There are many reasons, but it has a lot to do with the low quality of students, especially the low level of mental health and poor psychological quality. Although psychological counseling rooms have been set up in primary and secondary schools for a long time, they all exist in name only, not to mention offering special psychological education classes.
The "Ma Jiajue Incident" is enough for us to think deeply about the psychological status quo of modern middle school students. What kind of talents are our goals? What standards are used to measure the success or failure of our education? What can be used to test the gains and losses of our education? In the new situation, we have to rethink this problem. If we only pay attention to the education of students' physical health, but not to the education of mental health, it will be extremely unfavorable to the healthy growth of students.
As far as the current situation is concerned, it is very urgent and meaningful to carry out mental health education in school education.
1. Mental health education for middle school students is the need to avoid all kinds of emergencies, maintain social stability, the normal operation of schools and the happiness of students' families. Paying attention to students' mental health education and timely counseling can make individuals in unbalanced or unhealthy state return to normal state, greatly reduce abnormal and abnormal maladjustment behaviors, reduce juvenile delinquency and abnormal events, maintain normal public order and order in schools and society, and ensure family happiness.
Second, paying attention to the mental health education of middle school students is the need to ensure the normal and healthy growth of students. Paying attention to the mental health education of middle school students can promote the success of students' academic career; Promote the formation of students' good moral character; Ensure that students live a normal and healthy life and develop into adults.
Thirdly, attaching importance to the mental health education of middle school students is the need of the characteristics of adolescent physical and mental development.
Adolescence is a very special stage. From childhood to adolescence, the individual's physical and mental development has undergone major changes. There are two kinds of needs that have an important influence on psychology and behavior; One is sexual demand, and the other is because of the all-round development of the body and the formation of sexual demand, teenagers have a sense of adulthood and a strong need for independence. Due to the above factors, it is particularly urgent to carry out mental health education for teenagers.
Fourthly, paying attention to the mental health education of middle school students is the need of the current social change period.
In the past two or three decades, some changes or factors that inevitably breed temporarily with social changes have had a negative impact on the psychological state of teenagers-family and social environment have had a great impact on the psychology of today's teenagers. Paying attention to and strengthening the mental health education of middle school students is not only very important, but also imperative.
To sum up, we can see that the mental health of middle school students can not be ignored, which lights up an early warning signal for us. As educators, we have the responsibility to shoulder this heavy burden. We can't just stay at the level of understanding and analyzing problems, but we should try our best to solve these problems and make mental health education more practical. Doing a good job in mental health education for middle school students is an important task of education in 2 1 century, and also an important guarantee for cultivating qualified talents in 2 1 century.