Analysis on the Application of Group Psychological Counseling in Mental Health Education

Analysis on the Application of Group Psychological Counseling in Mental Health Education

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Analysis of the application of group counseling in mental health education 1 Paper Keywords: group counseling college students' mental health education

Abstract: Group psychological counseling is a form of counseling for groups with the same psychological needs to understand and solve problems through mutual sharing, support and interaction among group members. With the development of mental health work in colleges and universities, group psychological counseling has gradually become an effective way for college students' mental health education.

It is the goal of mental health education to carry out teaching, research and service of mental health, and promote the improvement of college students' psychological quality, the development of personality, the development of potential, the adjustment of emotions and the perfection of personality. For mental health educators, the focus of work should be to improve students' psychological quality and prevent psychological problems. As psychological counselors, we deeply feel that although individual counseling is necessary and meaningful, it is sometimes limited and passive and can only be carried out around students' individual psychological problems. With the development of work, more and more mental health workers are aware of the role of group psychological counseling in mental health education. As one of the ways to improve psychological quality, it can not only enable students to expand themselves in the unique atmosphere of the group, but also gain growth in effective behavior training.

1. Group counseling

Group psychological counseling is a form of counseling that provides psychological help and guidance based on group situation. It is a self-help process that takes groups as the object, uses appropriate counseling strategies and methods, and urges individuals to know themselves, accept themselves, develop themselves, improve themselves, adjust and improve interpersonal relationships, stimulate individual potential, enhance adaptability, and finally achieve more perfect development and growth through observation, learning and experience in communication.

2. The characteristics and functions of group counseling

2. 1 Characteristics of group counseling

First of all, group counseling has strong appeal and extensive influence. Through mutual communication, group members can learn that other members also have the same problems as themselves, thus generating * * * and getting comfort. By listening and communicating, we can inspire each other and seek effective ways to solve problems, thus alleviating psychological pressure and bad emotions.

Secondly, group psychological counseling pays attention to students' interaction and practicality, and its forms are diverse, vivid and interesting, which allows participants to open their hearts to discuss, accumulate experience, better understand and develop themselves, and continue to real life, and the counseling effect is easy to consolidate and migrate.

Third, compared with individual counseling, group counseling is more efficient and saves time and effort. Group psychological counseling is the guidance for some group members. During brainstorming, everyone can immediately find the problem and find an effective strategy to solve it.

2.2 the function of group counseling

First of all, group counseling has developmental and educational functions. Group psychological counseling is based on activities, through the self-experience of group members and mutual sharing among members, so as to change their behavior and achieve the purpose of making each member grow and develop. It is beneficial for group members to form a positive self-concept, improve their interpersonal skills, enhance the intimacy between their mentors, and enable members to know themselves, develop themselves and grow themselves in the group.

Secondly, group counseling has the functions of prevention and treatment. The therapeutic situation of group psychological counseling is close to our daily life and reality, which can guide students' emotional distress and psychological deviation behavior, and it is easier for students to accept in activities. At the same time, exploring feasible solutions can prevent or reduce the probability of problems and promote students' better development.

3. Common methods of group counseling

3. 1 group discussion method

Group discussion means that group members analyze each other and have in-depth discussions on the same problems or puzzles that everyone faces. In the process of group discussion, express your own opinions, listen to others' opinions, improve your own opinions, help members clearly understand their own and others' opinions, develop an attitude of respecting others, and form a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values.

3.2 Game coaching method

Game guidance refers to developing some meaningful psychological games, mobilizing students' enthusiasm for participation and experiencing the fun of activities. At the same time, psychological games can arouse students' thinking, stimulate college students' enthusiasm for life, care for the people around them and care for their parents.

3.3 Psychodrama Method

Psychodrama is a group psychological counseling model based on real life. As a special form of drama, it allows participants to interpret the role through exaggerated artistic expressions, and experience some emotions and attitudes that they didn't realize before in the collision of thoughts and the ringing of hearts, so as to vent their emotions and relieve their pressure.

3.4 Behavior Training Method

Behavioral training refers to a psychological counseling method which is guided by behavioral learning theory, learns and strengthens adaptive behavior through specific procedures, and corrects and eliminates unsuitable behavior. After guidance and training, learn good behavior patterns and gradually master new behaviors, thus changing individual bad behaviors or attitudes and forming new concepts and behavior patterns. Relaxation training, self-confidence training, emotional expression training and interpersonal skills training through a series of activities are not only suitable for students with certain psychological confusion, but also can promote the healthy growth of all students.

4. The application of group counseling in mental health education.

4. 1 Theme class meeting

Class-based group counseling. Group psychological counseling can be used for the construction of freshmen's classes, the construction of harmonious dormitory relations and the growth needs of different grades and different problems. For example, freshmen's adaptation counseling, interpersonal counseling, self-growth counseling, career planning counseling and so on. This is mainly aimed at the * * * problems faced by college students in different stages of college life, so that each student can know himself, develop himself and surpass himself within the scope of the group.

4.2 Campus Psychodrama

Campus psychological drama is to let students explain their psychological conflicts, troubles and puzzles in life, study and communication through sketch performance, role-playing and situational dialogue. In the process of "acting by oneself, others and others", students state, identify and clarify psychological conflicts, experience their inner world, share their experiences and experiences in the process of growing up, adjust their mentality, enhance friendship, know themselves and develop themselves by venting, releasing pressure, experiencing and understanding.

4.3 Special psychological training

Special training is mainly aimed at students facing the same or similar types of problems, mainly to help them solve problems and promote their growth. For example, poor students, learning pressure groups, special students' psychological quality training team. The training targets are mainly some special personnel, such as students who are withdrawn, sensitive and suspicious, have bad interpersonal relationships and do not participate in campus activities.

In a word, group psychological counseling combines theory with practice, so that students can experience, share and understand in actual activity situations with the support of group members, constantly enhance their self-confidence, relieve stress and adjust their emotions, so as to better develop themselves and grow up healthily.

Analysis on the Application of Group Psychological Counseling in Mental Health Education Part II In the mental health education class of senior high school, the application of experiential group psychological counseling can improve students' mental health level, maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, and promote their better study and healthy growth.

Know and discover your own advantages

Under the background of mastering the professional knowledge of mental health education, teachers should know the basic situation of students in their classes in advance, including family background, personality characteristics, character and conduct, hobbies and so on. And use the professional knowledge of psychology to carry out positive education for students, so as to better mobilize students' courage to overcome difficulties, develop students' internal potential, guide students to better understand and discover their own advantages, realize their uniqueness, and work hard in the direction of self-confidence, self-improvement and self-reliance.

For example, in experiential group psychological counseling, teachers can organize some small games first, such as "you play and guess" and "passing messages", which can enliven the classroom atmosphere, let students relax and reduce psychological anxiety. Then, the teacher can show the athletes' achievements, and then show some of the students' achievements, so that students can understand the glory of themselves, friends and groups and help students build their self-confidence. Then the teacher can ask: What are your advantages? Let the students communicate with each other in the group first, and then recommend a representative to show, so that the students can understand and discover their own advantages.

Cultivate a positive and optimistic attitude

A positive and optimistic attitude is of great significance to study and life. Different attitudes will make people make different choices and produce different effects. Implementing experiential group counseling in senior high school mental health education can cultivate students' positive and optimistic attitude through organizing activities. For example, teachers can organize "news investigation" simulation activities, so that students in the class can play the roles of reporters and interviewees respectively, ask high school students about their life, study and making friends, find out difficulties and discuss how to solve problems.

If I don't feel any advantage, my classmates don't like me; I am partial to English, mathematics and other subjects, but I can't learn anything. The teacher first asked students to explore ways to solve problems, and then told the psychological experiment of "flea" to guide students to believe in themselves. As long as they keep learning and changing themselves, they can become better people.

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To sum up, it is very valuable to implement experiential group psychological counseling in senior high school mental health education. Teachers should organize colorful mental health education activities on the basis of doing a good job of preliminary investigation and research, so as to better cultivate students' positive psychology, self-confidence and optimism.

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