Children's mental health means that children's psychological development reaches the normal level of the corresponding age group, with positive emotions, cheerful personality, no psychological obstacles and quick adaptability to the environment. It is particularly important to carry out effective mental health education for children in kindergartens.
First, teachers should strengthen mental health care, improve psychological quality and influence children with healthy personality.
The rapid change of society, the acceleration of people's life rhythm and the diversification of behavior patterns have undoubtedly brought great impact to the spiritual world of preschool teachers, making them prone to psychological discomfort. In this case, the psychological health care of preschool teachers is very important. Therefore, preschool teachers should strive to improve their personality and mental health level and try to avoid bringing personal bad emotions to kindergartens. This is not only a personal matter, but also an important social obligation, because it concerns the healthy growth of the next generation.
Second, provide a good psychological environment and attach importance to children's mental health education.
The kindergarten environment serves the all-round development of the kindergarten, so every child living in this environment should feel safe, happy, respected, accepted by the collective, self-respecting, confident and successful. This is the psychological environment that children need and the goal of our mental health education and construction.
1, create an environment that can mobilize and play children's potential.
Children are the main body of activities, and the first condition of education is to respect, know and love the main body. We should fully respect children's freedom and individuality, and be good at grasping the scale of education, that is to say, teachers should properly consider the environmental conditions and social consequences of their actions in their words and deeds. All the purposes of teachers are not simply to restrain and manage children, but to help children learn self-control, clarify their responsibilities, give orders to themselves happily and make demands on themselves consciously.
2. Create an environment that can cultivate children's self-esteem and self-confidence.
Because children's physical and mental development is very different, the evaluation of children should follow the spirit of the outline, avoid using a single standard to evaluate different children, and carefully use horizontal comparison in front of children. If adults often openly say that children are idiots, little fools, ADHD, losers, people who can't calm down for a minute and can't learn anything, children will lose their self-esteem and self-confidence, and they will be confused, disobedient and give up on themselves.
Thirdly, the effective penetration of mental health education in children's daily life.
According to the objectives of the program, we should work closely with families and communities, connect with primary schools, and make comprehensive use of various educational resources to create favorable conditions for the development of young children. Combine education in daily life, games, teaching activities, daily life, sports activities, sensory integration training and other fields.
1, Mental Health Education in Game Activities
Games are children's lives, and games are activities all day. Besides the educational function of the game itself, the integration of mental health education into the game can also play a synergistic role. Games are an excellent means to cultivate social skills and independence. In role games, it is undoubtedly meaningful to let children learn how to get along well with their peers, develop self-awareness and gregarious feelings, and coordinate the development of socialization and individuality through activities such as establishing the theme of the game, choosing the role and developing the plot. In practice, we realize that not all games are effective and meaningful for mental health education. Children's mental health education games should be targeted and targeted. We can sum up three principles: the functional principle of the game; Principle of children's needs; The principle of pertinence. We flexibly use some role games and sports games with mental health education according to three principles. Through games, children can experience the joy of being gregarious, enhance their gregarious consciousness and improve their cooperative ability.
2. Mental health education in teaching activities.
Our mental health education is not to add a day's activities, nor to replace the original teaching activities, but to tap the inherent and potential factors of teaching activities, and to give better play to the educational role of mental health teaching activities in teaching activities according to children's psychological characteristics and development needs, instead of "pouring water on the facts" to the outside world; Nor is it blind to the psychological factors contained in the original materials, regardless of children's psychological reaction, blindly instilling infiltration or separating various teaching activities from each other. In the form of activity organization, the integration mode is adopted to realize the "running class system", break the class boundaries, and let children participate in activities among groups and classes in small, medium and large classes, from single point-to-point communication to mixed-age partner communication, which expands the opportunities and opportunities for children's communication and improves their social skills.
3. Mental health education in daily life
A lot of daily life is a time when children's interpersonal communication is frequent and their psychological quality is naturally revealed. Life needs gregarious, and gregarious can be cultivated in life. We use the life activities of pre-school research for random education. Set up a corner of life and carry out activities such as knitting, embroidery and shoeshine, so that children can exercise their abilities and feel the sense of community in cooperation.
4. Mental health education in physical activity and sensory integration training.
Physical activity promotes the development of children's brains. Especially sensory training, cultivate good psychological and moral qualities such as team spirit, cooperation ability and interpersonal communication ability, and improve them simultaneously and promote each other.
Fourth, actively cultivate children's sociality to improve their psychological state.
Children's social behavior problems, personality and emotional problems. Are not psychological barriers in the real sense, but are actually manifestations of insufficient socialization. Therefore, to maintain and improve children's mental health, we must also do the following work.
1. Conduct emotional education. Let children learn to express their emotions appropriately, learn to control their emotions with reason, maintain psychological balance and stability when encountering psychological conflicts, and not easily produce various negative emotions or learn to vent reasonably to maintain healthy emotions.
2. Cultivate children's healthy interpersonal relationships. Although children's interpersonal relationship is simple, it is of great significance to children's mental health development. In kindergarten, children's interpersonal relationship mainly includes teacher-student relationship and peer relationship. Good peer relationship is a necessary prerequisite for mental health. Communication with peers is conducive to the formation and development of children's positive self-concept, to learning to get along with others, to developing cooperative behavior, and to laying a good foundation for children to adapt to social life in the future. On the contrary, the lack or even deprivation of opportunities for children to communicate with their peers will cause various obstacles and behavioral problems in their future social life.
Children's mental health development can not be separated from the careful training of teachers. For the healthy development and bright future of children, as a kindergarten teacher, we should always set an example and always start from love.