Briefly describe the role of school psychological counseling in school education.

A: The purpose of school psychological counseling is to promote students' mental health. Mental health is a good and continuous mental state and process, which shows that individuals have vitality, positive inner experience and good social adaptation, and can effectively play their physical and mental potential and positive social functions as members of society. The function of school psychological consultation in school education is:

(1) The need to prevent mental illness and ensure students' mental health.

Relevant surveys show that the mental health status of students in China is worrying. In recent years, the direct motivation of primary and secondary school teachers in China to spontaneously carry out various forms of mental health education is to help students overcome various psychological obstacles and prevent the occurrence of psychological diseases. School is the main place for students' mental health education.

(2) The need to improve students' psychological quality and promote the sound development of their personality.

Before students become independent members of society, they will experience a series of contradictions in development and life problems. The psychological conflicts, contradictions and troubles experienced by children are quite special. Children are eager for teachers to give sincere guidance and help in their life journey on the premise of respecting their growing independence. In a more positive sense, school psychological counseling is to improve students' psychological quality and promote students' sound personality development.

(3) Cooperation and supplement of daily education and teaching in schools.

Improving students' psychological quality through school psychological consultation can provide a good psychological background for the effective implementation of moral education.

(4) Carrying out school psychological counseling and strengthening mental health education will help promote the construction of spiritual civilization.

Strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization is a fundamental strategic task in the new period. Schools are the base for training talents and an important place for building socialist spiritual civilization. Developing school psychological consultation and optimizing social psychological environment is not only an important content of building socialist spiritual civilization, but also a driving force for building a major social spiritual civilization.