Keywords: Internet age; Higher vocational colleges; Mental health education
Mental health education is one of the important educational contents in higher vocational colleges. The arrival of the network era has brought a series of influences to the mental health education in higher vocational colleges. Judging from the accident cases in higher vocational colleges in recent years, most of them are closely related to students' mental health problems. Therefore, in the network era, it is still a long way to go to strengthen the mental health education of higher vocational students.
First, the concept and characteristics of mental health education
(A) the concept of mental health education. Mental health education refers to the educational process in which higher vocational colleges, according to the characteristics of students' psychological development, use the methods and means of psychological education to cultivate students' good psychological quality, promote students' comprehensive and healthy physical and mental development and improve their quality. Higher vocational colleges should carry out mental health education, cultivate good personality, develop intellectual potential, enhance psychological adaptability, stimulate internal motivation, maintain mental health and develop good behavior habits. In a word, it is fertility, intelligence, strength, motivation, mental health and guidance.
(2) The main features of mental health education. The author believes that mental health education mainly has the following characteristics.
1. Mental health education is an important part of quality education. Quality education belongs to ability education in essence, focusing on cultivating students' good psychological quality and perfecting healthy individual personality. Mental health education can essentially achieve the goals and requirements of quality education by actively interfering with students' mental health. Therefore, mental health education is an important part of quality education.
2. Mental health education is long-term and complicated. Mental health education is a long-term and systematic process, which can't be accomplished overnight. The educational effect will be affected by external factors, which is extremely unstable and repetitive. In order to consolidate the effect of mental health, teachers not only need long-term efforts, but also need to continuously consolidate the achievements of mental health education.
Second, the significance of developing mental health education in higher vocational colleges in the network era
(A) effectively overcome the negative impact of the Internet age on the mental health of higher vocational students. The Internet age brings convenience to students' access to information and communication, but it also brings many decadent and backward ideas and thoughts in society. The "three views" of students in higher vocational colleges are not yet fully mature, and they are easily influenced by external bad atmosphere. The network era just provides the media and channels for the dissemination of these information. When students use the Internet to obtain a large amount of information, they will inevitably be infringed and influenced by bad information to varying degrees, thus affecting their mental health. Carrying out mental health education and providing targeted and effective education will effectively overcome the adverse effects of the network age on the mental health of higher vocational students.
(two) to promote the effective improvement of the learning level of their professional courses. Higher vocational colleges believe that the main goal of society is to cultivate high-quality professional skills talents. In this process, students' mental health is closely related to the teaching effect of specialized courses. If students are troubled by mental health problems, it is bound to be difficult to devote themselves to the learning process of professional knowledge, which will adversely affect the improvement of the teaching level of professional courses. Therefore, through mental health education, it will effectively promote the improvement of the learning level of professional courses.
(C) to meet the needs of the reform of teaching management system in higher vocational colleges. In order to meet the requirements of quality education reform, many higher vocational colleges are vigorously promoting the reform of teaching management and curriculum teaching system at this stage, and the learning environment, curriculum learning mode and training mode of students have changed significantly. Without good psychological quality, it is difficult to meet the needs of the reform of teaching management system in higher vocational colleges. Therefore, developing mental health education is the meaning of the reform of teaching management system in higher vocational colleges.
Third, the problems and countermeasures of mental health education in higher vocational colleges in the network era
(A) the main problems in mental health education. In the network era, the mental health education in higher vocational colleges mainly has the following problems. First, insufficient attention has been paid to mental health education. Compared with professional curriculum education, many higher vocational colleges pay less attention to mental health education, and there are some problems in teachers' investment, curriculum and educational methods, which seriously affect the quality of mental health education. Second, the means of mental health education is single. Some higher vocational colleges adopt the mode of "two courses education" instead of mental health education, and most of them focus on classroom teaching activities, without making full use of network information teaching technology, and the overall education level is not high. Third, the professional level of mental health education teachers is not high, the number of ideological and political counselors is seriously insufficient, and professional teachers have not been fully exerted.
(2) Suggestions on improving the level of mental health education. First of all, higher vocational colleges should pay more attention to mental health education as an important educational content and take it as an important means to promote the reform of teaching management mode and improve teaching quality. Secondly, we should constantly enrich and improve the means of mental health education. In addition to consolidating the main position of the "two courses" education, we should make full use of various modes such as psychological consultation, mental health lectures, social practice and community activities to create a good mental health education atmosphere, guide students to face up to mental health problems, and seek scientific and reasonable solutions in time when encountering psychological problems to avoid the expansion and seriousness of psychological problems. At the same time, we should also make full use of Internet information technology in the network era and introduce it into mental health education activities to improve the pertinence and effectiveness of education. Finally, it is necessary to improve the professional level of mental health education teachers, equip enough ideological and political counselors according to the needs of mental health education, and bring professional teachers into the ranks of mental health education teachers to continuously improve the level of mental health education.
References:
[1] Hu Yuexiang. Present situation and countermeasures of mental health education in higher vocational colleges [J]. People's Forum, 20 10 (29).