What is the function of college students' mental health education?

1. Mental health education is an effective way to improve students' comprehensive quality.

Psychological quality is the internal characteristic of the subject's relative psychological stability, including personal mental outlook, temperament, personality, emotion and other psychological elements, which is the basis for the formation and development of other qualities. Students' knowledge seeking and growth is essentially a continuous psychological activity and psychological development process. Only through individual selection and internalization can the cultural knowledge provided by education penetrate into the individual's personality traits and make it move from naivety to maturity. This process is also a process of improving the level of individual psychological quality.

2. Mental health education is the basic driving force for students' personality development.

Mental health education is closely related to the personality development of the educated, which directly affects the development level of individual personality. On the one hand, in the process of mental health education, students gradually improve their personality structure by accepting moral norms, behavior patterns, environmental information and social expectations; On the other hand, as a measure, evaluation and adjustment of oneself in psychological life, objectively existing values also affect the personality development of the subject, and can also be transformed into personality traits under certain conditions, thus promoting personality development to a new height.

3. Mental health education is a reliable way to develop students' potential.

One of the purposes of education is to develop the potential of the educated. Good psychological quality and potential development are the premise of mutual promotion, and mental health education creates the necessary conditions for their coordinated development. Mental health education helps the subject to know himself at a higher level by stimulating the self-confidence of the educated, so as to realize the role transformation, develop the adaptability to the environment and finally fully develop the potential.