1. Positive psychology expands and deepens the connotation of mental health education for higher vocational students. Negative psychology mainly aims at the treatment of setbacks and injuries, and adopts a negative orientation model. Its disadvantage is conservatism, and its research focus is on the prevention and treatment of mental illness. Positive psychology emphasizes the positive factors that inspire individuals, rather than simply treating them from correction and prevention.
2. Positive psychology integrates mental health education at all levels in higher vocational colleges. The goal of mental health stipulated by traditional psychology generally includes two aspects, namely, the correction of psychological problems and the development of mental health. In other words, the goal of mental health education in higher vocational colleges is that all students have good psychological quality and help solve individual students' psychological problems.
3. Higher vocational education should actively accept new ideas and strive to practice the values of positive psychology. Psychological education in higher vocational colleges has been lagging behind other universities. Coupled with the influence of negative psychological education, psychological educators in higher vocational colleges generally have a one-sided understanding of psychological education, thinking that psychological education is psychological disorder correction or psychological disorder treatment, and the object is only individuals, without emphasizing the overall improvement of the psychological quality of groups.
On the basis of respecting the original psychological model, we should actively construct a new model for the development of psychological education in higher vocational colleges. Traditional psychological education only corrects psychological barriers and pays attention to students with certain psychological problems. It emphasizes the effect of psychotherapy after students have problems, which has no good effect on prevention and weakens the overall mental health development of higher vocational students to some extent.