By 2025, 100% of the province's full-time (part-time) mental health teachers will be equipped at all levels and types of schools

On May 10, the reporter learned that the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education and other 17 departments issued the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving the Mental Health Work of Students in Shaanxi Province in the New Era", proposing six key measures such as promoting mental health action at the same time, promoting the popularization of mental health knowledge, building a psychological early warning intervention system, and strengthening the training of teachers in the psychological talent team, and strive to achieve 100% of the mental health full-time (part-time) teachers in all types of schools at all levels in the province by 2025. 100% of the compulsory courses of mental health education in ordinary colleges and universities are offered.

By 2025, 80% of psychiatric hospitals above the second level in the province will set up student psychological outpatient clinics

The plan proposes that by 2025, the province's mental health full-time (part-time) teachers at all levels and types of schools will reach 100%. Among them, colleges and universities, high schools, and secondary vocational schools should be equipped with at least 90% of full-time mental health education teachers, primary and secondary schools should be equipped with no less than 50% full-time mental health education teachers, and boarding schools with more than 200 students and primary and secondary schools with more than 1,000 students (including secondary vocational schools) should be equipped with at least one full-time mental health education teacher. 100% of the compulsory courses on mental health education in ordinary colleges and universities have been offered.

80% of the province's second-level or above psychiatric hospitals have set up student psychological outpatient clinics; 50% of children's specialized hospitals, general hospitals of the second level and above, and maternal and child health hospitals have opened psychiatric (psychological) outpatient clinics; There are 4 psychiatric practitioners (assistants) per 100,000 people. 90 per cent of urban and 80 per cent of rural community parent schools have been established. More than 75% of the province's family education guidance service sites carry out mental health education. The awareness rate of core knowledge of mental health among students in the province has reached 90%.

Attend good aesthetic education classes, physical education classes, health classes, and labor classes

The Plan proposes that students' mental health education should run through the whole process of moral education.

Teachers at all levels and all types of schools in the province should pay attention to learning and mastering psychological knowledge, pay attention to maintaining students' mental health in subject teaching, and teach and educate people. Optimize the content and methods of education and teaching in the compulsory education stage, continuously improve the level of after-school services, meet the diverse learning needs of students, and effectively reduce the burden of homework on students in the compulsory education stage. Deepen the comprehensive governance of off-campus training establishments, strictly investigate and deal with discipline-based training with hidden variations in violation of regulations, further regulate non-academic off-campus training, and reduce the burden of off-campus training on students. Strengthen the supervision of training institutions to maintain the safety and physical and mental health of students.

All types of schools at all levels in the province should fully open physical education and health classes to ensure that students exercise for more than one hour inside and outside the school every day. One sports day is held every semester. All types of schools at all levels in the province should effectively set up labor education courses and hold at least one labor week every school year.

All kinds of schools at all levels in the province should be fully open to good aesthetic education classes, and hold at least one art festival every school year. Continue to carry out traditional culture and art activities such as elegant art, Shaanxi local culture and intangible cultural heritage suitable for students to learn.

At least 1 mental health assessment per school year

Secondary vocational schools should provide a full 36 hours of basic modules for ideological and political courses "Mental Health and Career" in accordance with regulations. High schools should make mental health education classes a school-based curriculum, combined with student development guidance efforts, to provide professional support for students' academic planning, career planning, voluntary reporting, and other work, and in principle, 1 credit per academic year should be credited to the total number of credits taken by students.

Ordinary colleges and universities should strictly follow the "2 credits, 32-36 credit hours" to open compulsory courses on mental health education, and colleges and universities with the capacity may offer more diverse and targeted elective courses on mental health.

Guide primary and secondary schools to implement the teaching of mental health content in the national curriculum textbooks, and encourage colleges and universities to compile high-quality textbooks and textbooks for mental health education. Continue to carry out a variety of cultural, sports and recreational activities that are beneficial to students' physical and mental health and psychological quality development activities. Secondary vocational schools carry out special mental health education at least twice per semester.

The provincial education department monitors the quality of compulsory education every year to monitor the mental health status of students, and includes it in the "316 Project" system of school supervision and evaluation of the education department. Ordinary colleges and universities carry out full-coverage mental health assessments and psychological center open week activities in a timely manner after new students enter the campus every year. Encourage colleges and universities with the capacity to reasonably increase the frequency and scope of assessments.

Carry out at least one mental health assessment each for the upper grades of primary school, junior high school, high school, and secondary vocational schools each school year, and guide schools to use the assessment results scientifically and standardly, and establish a "one policy for a lifetime" mental health file. Establish and improve the security protection mechanism of assessment data to prevent information leakage. Increase the identification and intervention of students with hidden psychological problems, and explore the introduction of personality trait assessment in mental health assessments.

College counselors visit all student dormitories on a monthly basis

All levels and types of education departments should actively work with departments such as for health to guide schools and families, mental health establishments, maternal and child health care establishments, and so forth, to establish and complete coordination mechanisms, jointly carry out publicity and education on students' mental health, strengthen the establishment of physical and technical defense, early discovery of students' serious mental health problems, clear channels for prevention and referral for intervention in seeking medical treatment, and promptly make referrals, diagnoses, and treatments.

All types of schools at all levels should continue to improve the four-level early warning network of "school-department/grade-class-dormitory/individual". College counselors visit all students' dormitories every month. Graduate supervisors should take the responsibility of being the first responsible person for student training. Primary and secondary schools should implement a "special person subcontracting contact system" for key students, establish a psychological early warning system with psychological teachers and class teachers as the core, and all teachers participate together, and regularly follow up and evaluate dynamically. Encourage primary and secondary schools and colleges and universities to set up psychological committee members.

Encourage colleges and universities with the capacity to set up psychology departments in campus hospitals

Build an information platform for mental health services for primary and secondary school students in the province. Ordinary colleges and universities should allocate necessary office space and equipment for mental health education and counseling, and set up psychological development counseling rooms, positive psychological experience centers, and so forth. Introduce psychological services in student communities on a regular basis, and colleges and universities that have the capacity can also build comprehensive quality training bases for students inside and outside the school.

Colleges and universities with the capacity should use the support of mental health medical establishments to open channels such as 24-hour Sunshine Psychological Assistance Hotlines, online appointment hotlines, and consultation mailboxes. Encourage colleges and universities that have the capacity to set up psychology departments in on-campus hospitals, equip them with basic medical resources, and provide personalized diagnosis and treatment services for students with mental disorders.

Each campus of colleges and universities must establish a linkage of student mental health medical services with at least one hospital in its territory

Establish regional mental health education and guidance centers for primary and secondary school students, and actively carry out various forms of online and offline counseling and counseling services. Primary and secondary schools should strictly follow the relevant requirements to strengthen the establishment of psychological counseling rooms. Encourage hospitals to support schools in carrying out student mental health work through methods such as stationing them at designated locations and setting up outpatient departments, and clear green channels for students to seek medical treatment.

Each campus of ordinary colleges and universities must establish a linkage mechanism for student mental health medical services with at least one hospital in their territory, and promptly refer students suspected of having mental illness or high psychological risk to professional institutions for diagnosis and treatment. Improve management systems for the referral, suspension, and resumption of studies for students with mental illness, and help eligible students return to school. Specialized mental health establishments should cooperate with the education departments to support efforts to train full-time and part-time teachers in mental health education in mental health education in the region in specialized mental hygiene knowledge and skills.

Primary and secondary schools should carry out at least one home visit covering all students every school year, strengthen communication with parents, and focus on groups such as children in difficulty, de facto unsupported orphans, and students from special families.

Encourage colleges and universities that offer majors in psychology, medicine and other related disciplines to expand their enrollment

Encourage colleges and universities that offer majors in psychology, medicine, and other related disciplines to expand the scale of enrollment, strengthen the teaching of professional courses such as education, psychology, and medicine, educate and guide students to obtain teacher qualification certificates or professional qualification certificates, and cultivate compound talents in mental health and mental health. Strengthen the construction of training bases for psychology, applied psychology, social work and other related disciplines and top-notch students in psychology. Support colleges and universities in our province to continue to deepen the construction of first-class undergraduate majors related to psychology at the national and provincial levels. Support college counselors to pursue a master's degree in psychology.

Ordinary colleges and universities should set up full-time teaching positions for mental health education in accordance with the teacher-student ratio of not less than 1:4000, and each school should have no less than 2 people, and second-level colleges (departments) should be equipped with part-time psychological counselors. Provincial-level colleges and universities mental health education and counseling demonstration centers and colleges and universities with capacity should allocate full-time teachers for mental health education in accordance with a teacher-student ratio of not less than 1:3,000. Primary and secondary schools should have at least one full-time (part-time) mental health education teacher.

Primary and secondary schools and kindergartens should generally establish "parent schools"

Provincial-level administrative departments for education are to establish mental health education and training bases, and establish and complete teacher training systems. Primary and secondary schools should make key arrangements for mental health education as a compulsory part of all types of training, such as pre-job training for class teachers and teachers of all disciplines.

The evaluation of the professional titles of full-time teachers in mental health education in primary and secondary schools may be included in the series of moral education teachers or separately reviewed. The evaluation of professional titles should give full consideration to the particularity and strong practicality of full-time teachers engaged in student psychological counseling and intervention work. Full-time teachers engaged in psychological counseling and counseling activities should calculate their workload in the same way as classroom teaching in other courses.

Promote the establishment of community family education guidance service sites. Primary and secondary schools and kindergartens should generally establish "parent schools", actively build family education guidance workstations with communities (villages), and regularly carry out family education guidance and practice activities. Parent schools or family education guidance service sites organize at least 4 inclusive family education guidance service activities each year, and carry out mental health education activities for parents and children at least 2 times a year.

Ren Na, an all-media reporter from Xi'an Newspaper