A Probe Into The Psychological Health Of College Students And The Educational Strategies

The psychological health education of college students is a field that is pressingly neededin the current situation. The opening-up and reform, the establishment of a socialist marketeconomic structure, the increasingly fierce social competition, the diversities ofenvironmental stimulation and values, the complexity of interpersonal relationship, thequickened pace of life and the striking difference between the haves and the have-nots , allhave, to various extents, caused college students to be psychologically burdened andperplexed. Being a special community, college students are mentally active, highly sensitive,much expected from themselves and fragile to frustrations, and their psychological health isbeing under threat and test. Therefore, it is a new basic issue that the higher education has tobe faced with to pay close attention to college students' psychological development, enhancethe psychological health education, so as to make out of them socialist constructors of bothability and moral integrity, high emotion and intelligence quotients, physical andpsychological healthiness. Based on the writer's long time experience of psychological health education, this thesisstarts with an investigation into the current psychological health of certain college students,followed by an analysis of the existent psychological problems depending on the latesttheories and studies, rather than simply borrowing other people's opinions. And it has forparts.I. the meaning of psychological health and the standards of college students' psychologicalhealth This part introduces the concepts of psychology, health and psychological health, andthen defines the standards of college students' psychological health in the light of theunderstandings of psychological health by experts and scholars home and abroad.II. the current psychological health of college students In order to know the psychological health of college students, testing methods like UPIand SCL—90 are used to make an investigation into the psychological health of the 8684undergraduates ( 6205 male and 2479 female ) from Years 2000—2004 in our school,Changchun Institute of Technology. They are of 4 types , Engineering, Administration, LiberalArts , Fine Art , and from 15 departments and 22 specialties. The goal of the investigation isto obtain general knowledge of the level of college students' psychological health, to providethem with pointed psychological health education, and to find and cure, as soon as possible,the students who are suffering from psychological problems.III. factors affecting the psychological health of college studentsInvestigation and analysis show that factors affecting the psychological health of collegestudents are various, including, in their individual development, the objective factors like theenvironments of family, education, society and the subjective factor of the studentsthemselves.IV.main channels of psychological health education of college students In order to increasingly promote the level of the psychological health of college students,channels to be adopted should be as follows: to build psychological advisory centers; todevelop a rational system of psychological health education; to set up a psychological healthassociation of college students where they can get each other's help; to do well the generalpsychological survey and psychological consultative work of college students; to carry outpsychological health education in the entire process of college education; to create a nicecampus atmosphere, etc.