How to judge the child's current mental health?

The first is to summarize the social and cultural standards. Under every social and cultural condition, people have corresponding health concepts and behavioral norms, and whether they are mentally healthy or not can be judged according to social and cultural standards. For example, in the traditional social culture of China, most people think that girls should be quiet, introverted and passive, while men should be rough, extroverted and active. These concepts of gender expectations reflect the unanimous views of members of society. Any girl who seems rude and active when she is young, or a boy who is too weak and passive, will be considered to be acting a little weird. Social and cultural standards are also reflected in the differences among countries, regions and environments. The concept of children's mental health in different countries is different in different regions and cultural customs. For example, in some places, it is a dietary custom for children to grasp food with their hands, while in other places, it is considered as a behavioral deviation for children to grasp food with their hands. Environmental standards are more obvious. For example, a child suddenly sings loudly during a nap, or flinches in a pleasant peer game, which will be considered as abnormal emotional behavior. However, social and cultural standards are not immutable, but will change with the development of society, the change of population, and the change of health concept and values.

Second, according to development standards. To judge whether mental health is healthy, we must take normal psychological development standards as reference and the normal order and speed of psychological development at different ages as standards. Normal development standard is a statistical concept, which is the relative ratio of a group of children. Therefore, parents and teachers should know more about the general standards of children's psychological development at all ages before making decisions on children's mental health. In daily life, we can judge children's mental health according to the following four aspects.

Third, according to the symptom standard. This is a method that clinicians often use. Children with unhealthy psychology often show some special symptoms, such as eating disorder, hyperactivity, self-injury and so on. Using this standard to judge whether one's psychology is healthy is more acceptable to people. However, some children's performance is not obvious and typical, especially when they are taken to the counseling center for help by their parents, which increases the difficulty of judgment. In order to overcome this shortcoming, we can set up some special conversation scenes, observe and record special symptoms or use the "symptom scale" to be monitored and evaluated by parents for further analysis.

The fourth is to judge according to experience. That is, professionals, teachers or parents judge whether a child's mental health is based on personal experience and opinions. On the surface, this method does not use the concept of statistics and is unscientific. In fact, the concept of statistics is implicit in individual experience, and the evaluator judges according to the "percentage" in self-experience. However, this standard is flawed because it is influenced by the evaluator's knowledge structure, personality characteristics, values and educational views.

More accurate judgment.