First, mental health education
1. What is mental health?
In modern society, a mentally healthy person usually shows normal cognitive function, appropriate emotional response, sound will quality, correct self-awareness, complete personality structure, harmonious interpersonal relationship, positive attitude towards life, good social adaptability, standardized behavior and age-appropriate behavior.
2. The necessity of mental health education
Mental health education is completely different from the diagnosis and treatment mode in psychiatry. Mental health education is mainly aimed at the needs of children and adolescents' psychological development, aiming at improving and cultivating students' psychological quality, and helping students learn how to properly and effectively cope with various pressures in real life and how to adjust their emotions. To enable students to adapt to society more effectively and actively, to adapt to their own development and changes, and to promote the mental health development of children and adolescents. Therefore, preventing problems and promoting the improvement of psychological quality are the main goals of mental health education. Mental health education is essentially the education and cultivation of psychological quality, an important aspect of promoting students' all-round development and a concrete embodiment of quality education.
3. Suggestions on how to carry out mental health education
(1) Attach importance to the improvement of teachers' own quality.
(2) Pay attention to the combination with daily education and teaching activities in schools.
(3) Pay attention to practice and highlight the characteristics of activity orientation.
(4) Pay attention to the participation of parents and social forces and promote mental health education.
Two. Contents of mental health education in schools
(A) determine the principles of school mental health education content
1. Target principle. The fundamental goal of school mental health education is to promote the healthy development of students, improve their basic quality, cultivate their excellent psychological quality, improve their survival and adaptability, and promote their potential for independent development. Around these goals, the contents of school mental health education should include not only the education of outlook on life and values, personality cultivation, emotional cultivation, willpower cultivation, self-knowledge and understanding, survival training, potential development and other topics, but also related psychological tests, counseling, curriculum arrangement, activity training and so on.
2. The principle of reality. According to the actual situation of our school, the actual educational ability of teachers, the actual level and needs of students' development, we should choose and determine the content of mental health education suitable for our school.
3. The principle of development. When determining the content of mental health education in schools, we should "face the whole people and pay attention to development", choose the theme content with universal significance and pay attention to the "prevention and promotion" function of mental health education.
4. The principle of difference. We should respect not only individual differences, but also grade differences. Considering the psychological needs of different grades and students is the premise to ensure the effect of mental health education in schools.
5. Principles of activities. When determining the content of school mental health education, we should highlight the characteristics of activity orientation, infiltrate the content of mental health education into flexible and interesting activities, give full play to the advantages of psychological education activities, and pay attention to the educational role of the activity process.
(B) Analysis of the misunderstanding of school mental health education
Myth 1: Mental health education in schools is to conduct psychological tests.