In order to comprehensively strengthen and improve the mental health work of students in the new era and improve their mental health literacy, the Ministry of Education and other departments 17 jointly issued the Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving the Mental Health Work of Students in the New Era (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan).
The Action Plan has deployed eight key tasks: First, to promote mental health through five educations, adhere to the unity of learning knowledge and improving comprehensive quality, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. Second, strengthen mental health education, offer related mental health courses, give full play to the role of classroom teaching, pay attention to students' individual differences, and help students master mental health knowledge and skills. The third is to standardize mental health monitoring, adhere to prevention first, move forward, and regularly carry out students' mental health assessment. Fourth, improve the psychological early warning intervention, improve the early warning system, strengthen the construction of physical defense technology, find serious mental health problems of students as soon as possible, unblock the channels of prevention and referral intervention, and timely refer, diagnose and treat. Fifth, strengthen the construction of psychological talents, improve the quality of personnel training, equip mental health teachers, and smooth the channels for teacher development. Sixth, support mental health research, carry out basic, cutting-edge and international research on students' mental health, and promote the application of results. Seventh, optimize social psychological service, improve social psychological service ability, strengthen family education guidance service and strengthen the protection of minors. Eighth, create a healthy growth environment, extensively carry out popular science on students' mental health knowledge and prevention of psychological problems, popularize the experience and practices of students' mental health work, and strengthen daily supervision and management.
The Action Plan emphasizes the improvement of various safeguards. First, strengthen organizational leadership, and incorporate students' mental health work into the assessment of the provincial people's government's performance of educational duties, into the overall planning of school reform and development, into the talent training system and the supervision and evaluation index system, as an important part of the assessment of running schools at all levels and the annual assessment of leading bodies. The second is to implement funds, increase overall planning, optimize the expenditure structure, and effectively strengthen the funding guarantee for students' mental health work. The third is to cultivate and popularize experience, support qualified regions and schools to innovate students' mental health work mode, and play a leading and driving role.