May is a month of energy and praise, and it is pregnant with many important holidays, such as Labor Day, Youth Day, Mother's Day and Mental Health Day. In 2004, the School Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Federation of Students jointly decided to designate May 25 as the National Mental Health Day. Over time, May Mental Health Activity Month has gradually become an important event to raise public awareness and attention to mental health issues and promote people's mental health and well-being.
In order to further strengthen students' mental health education, improve students' mental health literacy, and optimize the business environment, Tieshu School in Zengdu District actively responded to the requirements of the "Notice on Organizing and Carrying out the Second Hubei Provincial Mental Health Education Publicity Month for Minors", popularizing mental health knowledge for students, cherishing themselves and cherishing life.
1. Knowledge publicity
Definition of mental health
In 1989, the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly stated: "Health is not only the absence of disease, but also includes physical health, mental health, social well-being and moral health." ”
Mental health refers to having normal mental and active activities and good psychological quality. Influenced by both genetics and environment, especially the parenting style of the original family in early childhood, has a great impact on the development of mental health. Mental health highlights the ability to maintain good communication or cooperation with other people in social, production and life, and to be able to deal with various situations in life well.
Manifestations of mental health
(1) Self-awareness is correct
Be able to evaluate and accept yourself correctly.
(2) Interpersonal coordination
Willing to socialize, able to establish good interpersonal relationships with most people, and have the ability to deal with conflicts.
(3) Gender role differentiation
Be able to acquire the appropriate gender role, and behave in a way consistent with the corresponding gender role norms.
(4) Good social adaptation
Able to face, accept, and adapt to reality, and be able to properly deal with various challenges in life, study and work.
(5) Positive and stable emotions
Optimistic and stable, love life, positive, full of hope for the future, and can relieve yourself if you have troubles.
(6) Sound and complete personality
Have high ability, perfect character, good temperament, correct motivation, wide range of interests and firm beliefs, etc.
Common psychological problems
Mental Health Education Strategies
What can parents do?
1. Maintain a harmonious relationship as a couple
Giving children a stable and safe family atmosphere and increasing their confidence in facing problems can help improve their happiness in their future lives.
2. Listen to your child
The family should be the place where the child speaks in his heart, and parents often chat with the child, leaving more opportunities for the child to speak, so that the child can open his heart, express himself to the fullest, and not judge too much.
3. Both tolerance and restraint are important
Parents should treat their children equally, and give them the necessary restraints while being tolerant of them. If you are too tolerant, you will fall into doting, and if you are too strict, you will destroy the parent-child relationship.
4. There is a way to encourage praise
If parents praise their children only because they get good grades, they will make them feel that they are good children when they get good grades, and good grades are often not completely controllable by their efforts, so children will be more likely to be upset. If parents can see their child's efforts and praise him for the process of doing things, it will often make the child more motivated to continue to work hard.
5. Get close to nature and get in touch with social life
Encourage children to get in touch with nature and society, encourage children to participate in social welfare activities, cultivate children's behavior and love for others, experience the colorfulness of life, and help cultivate children's perfect personality.
What can teachers do?
1. Hint subtly and build self-confidence
The teacher discovers the students' strengths and shining points in a timely manner, and subtly hints to the students in various ways: sincere smiles, concerned eyes, words of encouragement, seemingly casual praise, etc., so that they can understand their strengths, see their abilities, overcome their inferiority, and establish self-confidence.
2. Guide students to understand themselves correctly
Teachers should guide students to evaluate themselves scientifically and in two, so that students can understand that we have strengths that others envy and our own shortcomings, and learn to accept ourselves.
3. Be good at grooming and cultivating emotions
The teacher guides students to understand various psychological phenomena, patiently helps students distinguish the boundaries of different psychological qualities such as positive and negative, optimistic and pessimistic, self-esteem and vanity, pride and pride, etc., and guides students to sublimate their emotions through reasonable release and regulation, reduce psychological pressure and tension, and guide students to learn to look at problems from multiple aspects and perspectives.
4. Organize practice and exercise will
The school can organize and carry out a variety of practical activities, so that students can be tempered in the activities, and carry out self-restraint, self-regulation, self-education, exercise their will, and form the psychological quality of self-improvement and perseverance by actively overcoming the difficulties that continue to arise in the activities. Let students grow and mature in activities.
What can I do?
2. Co-construction of activities
The school actively organizes students to hold mental health education theme class meetings to guide students to care for themselves, understand themselves, and accept themselves.
In order to actively pay attention to students' mental health and understand students' psychological state, organize students to fill in mental health questionnaires.
Actively participate in online lectures on mental health knowledge, guide parents to master mental health knowledge, update family education concepts, jointly create a good mental health education atmosphere, and promote the harmonious development of students' physical and mental health.
Human health is half physical health and half mental health. Iron Tree School will, as always, integrate mental health education into daily education and teaching activities, so that every child can have a healthy body and mind, a sunny heart, and grow up happily!
Correspondents: Luo Kai, Yang Li, Zhang Gaocun