(A) the advantages of online mental health education
1. Space is safer. Traditional mental health education focuses on classroom education and psychological counseling. At present, there is still prejudice against psychological problems in society, which holds that psychological counseling is equivalent to mental illness, which makes students afraid to enter the school psychological counseling room and make consultation calls. However, the letter consultation may not be answered in time, and there is a risk of being exposed. For various reasons, students are unwilling to receive psychological counseling. There are many differences between computer network communication (CMC) and face-to-face communication (FTF) in real life. CMC has the characteristics of anonymity, virtuality, immediacy, openness and equality. As a new way of education, online mental health education has the irreplaceable advantages of traditional mental health education: the anonymity of the network brings about the disinhibition of online behavior, enabling students to reveal their true inner thoughts, including personal confusion, anxiety, dissatisfaction, views on things, views on problems and feelings for others. The virtual nature of the network enables people to communicate directly, eliminating each other's politeness, temptation, vigilance and emotional and moral responsibilities without worrying about their privacy being exposed to the public. The real-time nature of the network enables the consultants to answer their questions in time, find out the existing psychological problems in time and find the best solution in time. The openness of the network can increase the freedom that consultants can choose, such as choosing topics of interest and choosing their favorite consultants. The equality of the network enhances students' equality consciousness, makes them dare to tell the truth and question, and at the same time makes students with inferiority, introversion and poor communication skills open their hearts and communicate on an equal footing.
2. The content is richer. Traditional mental health education focuses on classroom teaching, with little information, and the way of receiving information is linear, so students have no choice. However, online mental health education has the characteristics of divergence, with large amount of information, wide coverage, open consciousness and relaxed atmosphere, which can greatly satisfy students' curiosity about new things, broaden their horizons, enrich their imagination and strengthen their thirst for knowledge. This kind of benign stimulation is conducive to the cultivation of students' good thinking ability and the improvement of their psychological strength. Many students who are facing psychological confusion and development problems are more willing to learn about mental health knowledge in time through the internet and seek professional psychological assistance. More students like to express their feelings through virtual network communication such as forums and chats, vent their depressed bad emotions and relieve their psychological pressure.
3. The form is more lively. Traditional mental health education is mainly based on preaching and case education, which is often too boring and students' acceptance is not ideal. However, network teaching has the remarkable characteristics of large amount of information, fast data update, vivid multi-directional demonstration and simulation, which is incomparable to traditional teaching methods with limited space and time. Psychological practice shows that when receiving information, people only use visual energy to remember 25%, and at the same time use auditory and visual receptor functions to remember 65%. It can be seen that the participation of various organs in activities can effectively improve the memory efficiency. Computers have powerful information processing functions in the form of words, sounds, charts, videos and animations. Students can subtly release pressure and acquire mental health knowledge through online psychological consultation, online psychological test, watching psychological movies, browsing psychological professional knowledge and chatting in forums.
4. Be more participatory. Suhomlinski once pointed out that all education should belong to self-education, and only education that can promote self-education is real education. Self-education of students' mental health means that students promote the development of mental health through self-education. Many pressures, such as study, employment, feelings and interpersonal relationships, make students prone to negative emotions such as nervousness, fear, anxiety and depression, and also prone to psychological unhealthy manifestations such as cognitive obstacles, emotional obstacles and will and personality obstacles. These psychological problems can be educated through correct self-awareness, positive self-motivation and active self-regulation. The network can provide comprehensive mental health knowledge. Students can adjust, vent, sublimate and desensitize themselves in self-education through psychological catharsis and professional psychological help provided by the network, so as to change their cognitive ability and achieve the coordination and unity of psychology and environment, psychology and behavior.
5. Education is more extensive. Traditional psychological counseling needs to make an appointment in advance at a designated place and be conducted one-on-one in a limited time. Limited service objects, limited service time and space make it difficult to solve students' common psychological obstacles. The network can just solve the two problems of limited service objects and limited service time and space. Online video can make the classroom of mental health bigger and have more audiences. Students can choose different topics to understand their psychological needs. In addition, the rapid replication of the internet makes it possible for a consultant to receive multiple consultations at the same time. Group counseling will break through the limitation of time and space and realize the psychological counseling mode of group counseling on the network. Users and experts can achieve "one-to-one" and "one-to-many" psychological counseling without leaving home, which breaks through the bottleneck that traditional psychological counseling cannot meet with consultants because there are too few professional consultants. Network mental health education has a wider educational scope and can benefit more students.