Why should we study mental health education for primary school students?

Mental health refers to the environment in which individuals can adapt and develop, with perfect personality characteristics; And their cognition, emotional reaction and will behavior are in a positive state, which can maintain normal control ability. Broadly speaking, mental health refers to an efficient, satisfactory and sustained mental state. In a narrow sense, mental health means that people's basic psychological activities are complete and coordinated, that is, cognition, emotion, will, behavior and personality are complete and coordinated, and they can adapt to society and keep pace with society. So, what effect does mental health have on primary and secondary school students? What kind of guidance does mental health have for primary and secondary school students?

1. Promoting students' healthy development We carry out mental health education among primary and secondary school students, the fundamental purpose of which is to identify mental diseases, determine the pathological degree, find treatment methods, improve psychological quality and promote mental health, thus promoting the normal development of the body and ensuring students' physical and mental health.

Second, to promote the healthy development of students' intelligence, the learning activity of primary and secondary school students is a meaningful ideological activity, which requires students to have a healthy psychological mechanism to ensure that students have a clear learning purpose, firm learning will, strong learning interest and strong learning attention. Once these individual psychological qualities are formed, they can become a great learning motivation for primary and secondary school students, give full play to their subjective initiative, use their brains and learn scientific and cultural knowledge well.

Thirdly, promoting the healthy development of students' personality and cultivating students' good moral character is an important requirement of primary and secondary education, and it is also a basic task to strengthen the ideological and political work of primary and secondary school students and put moral education first. Primary and secondary school students are in an important period of forming their character and morality, and also an important stage of forming their outlook on life. Children and teenagers are experiencing all kinds of puzzles in life and study. Mental health education for primary and secondary school students, curing the psychological defects and obstacles of contemporary primary and secondary school students, dispelling all kinds of fog in students' growth, improving students' psychological quality, and laying a solid foundation for the comprehensive realization of the transformation from exam-oriented education to quality education, has become an urgent and unshirkable task for our vast educational work.

Fourth, you can know yourself correctly. Have a full understanding of yourself, know the value of your existence, feel satisfied with yourself, and strive to make yourself more perfect. We can carry forward our own advantages, fully understand our own shortcomings and make conscious efforts to overcome them. Have their own ideals, full of confidence in the future, and constantly make new achievements in study and work.

Fifth, stable and harmonious personality, establish good interpersonal relationships, respect others, understand others, be good at learning from others' strengths to make up for their shortcomings, and be able to get along with others in a friendly and tolerant way. They can be sincere and frank in front of others, so it is easy to gain the trust of others and establish harmonious interpersonal relationships. High prestige in the collective, full life.

Sixth, people who love life and are mentally healthy love life, can deeply feel the beauty of life and the fun in life, and actively look forward to a bright future. Can give full play to their potential in all aspects of life, and do not lose confidence in life because of setbacks and failures. Can correctly handle practical difficulties, adjust their thinking mode and behavior strategy in time to adapt to various social environments.

Mental health education in primary and secondary schools is an educational activity to cultivate students' good psychological quality, promote their all-round and harmonious development and improve their overall quality by using relevant psychological education methods and means according to the characteristics of their physical and mental development. It is an important part of quality education and an important link to implement the cross-century quality education project and cultivate cross-century high-quality talents. The goal of mental health education is to make students know themselves correctly, enhance their ability of self-adjustment, bearing setbacks and adapting to the environment, cultivate students' sound personality and good individual psychological quality, and give scientific psychological consultation and guidance to a few students with psychological behavior problems and psychological obstacles, so that they can get rid of obstacles and adjust themselves as soon as possible, form healthy psychological quality and improve their mental health level. China is in the period of social transformation, and social changes will inevitably impact all aspects of family, school and society. Various social contradictions, interpersonal contradictions and many psychological conflicts in adult society will inevitably be highlighted from the psychological state of teenagers. Immature minds are under the pressure of generations, and the faults and fetters in social change bind children's hearts, hands and feet, all of which are worrying. However, as long as attention and prevention are paid as early as possible, it is not too late to start working now. It is very important for parents and teachers to really understand our children and help them get out of the inner maze.

The Guiding Outline of Mental Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools clearly points out: "Good psychological quality is an important part of people's comprehensive quality. Mental health education is an education to improve the psychological quality of primary and secondary school students and an important part of implementing quality education. Primary and secondary school students are in an important period of physical and mental development. With the development of physiology and psychology, the expansion of social experience and the change of thinking mode, especially in the face of the pressure of social competition, they will encounter all kinds of psychological puzzles or problems in their study, life, interpersonal communication, further education and employment, and self-cognition. Therefore, developing mental health education in primary and secondary schools is the need of students' healthy growth and the inevitable requirement of promoting quality education. "The responsibility of the school is not limited to imparting all kinds of knowledge, cultivating all kinds of skills and developing intellectual ability, but also has the main responsibility of promoting and guiding personality development and mental health. The stage of primary and secondary school students is the fastest stage of psychological development in life. Therefore, schools should attach importance to and strengthen the mental health education of primary and secondary school students.

The research on mental health education in primary and secondary schools still needs to be carried out, because the significance of mental health education for primary and secondary school students is imperative.