Thoughts On The Mental Health Education At The Senior Middle School

ttis dissertation is meant to preseni my ideas of what to do with the mental heaItheducation at the senior middle school m our councy PSychology is a subject that I havc beenhighly interested in since I stthed as a !niddle-school toacher of chemistry in l982.For manyycars I have worked with my studenis, first as a t6aChe and thell as a Principal. I have madeconscious cITOrt tO talk with a goOd many stydeme, and gradually l have collected a largcvariety of first-hand cases. l am fully awarc of the importance of mental health in tl1e se11iormiddie school educahon.Bascd on thc theorics Of COgnition, the dissotation PrObes differcnt rocs of students,teachers, schools and familics in mcned health eduation. To solvc the Problems that arisefronl the education of menta health and pSychology at the scnior middle school, I l1avcforn1ed some new ideas out of my earnest research work, in whicl1 the cxpenmcnt in m}'school with thc pSychologiedly regulatod class is the most striking example - l hope thatthese idcas can rcally be noval and PraCcal as wel.My new ideas arc as fOlows. (l) Menal heaith eduCation should go with the other sortsof school education, such as moral education, iIltellectual education, ph}rsical and aesthoticeducatlon and so on. (2) "Empathic understanding" is the key quaIity fol' a teacilcr \\l1c11 l1econducs the mental health education. (3) opasis shOuld be put on thc buiiding olpotential-warc* in the tncnta health education. (4) It is nccessary and helPful to dcvelop fivesPeciaI tyPCs of thichng for thc student's se f contrl. The fivc types of thinkng are t good-trchd thinking, soft-hard thinkng, OVerStOpplng thinking, replacement thinking, reciprocalthinking, (5) AttCntion should bc paid to pnds' consciousness, l2 basic ru1es and adiagran1* in boly invOlvcmCn in education. (6) Ncw aPPoachcs are tO be found b3'develoPing a positive selfimage and by creatng a favorabIc "o4anizational culture" toimprove mental hcalth on the pat of the teachers themselvcs.My name is Weng Qianming. I was born in l956 in Fuzhou, Fujia11 Porvincc. Now 1am principal of Sanming No 2 Middle Schoo1. a kcy senior high school. I an a highraJthingteacher enjoying the titles Of tl1e model wOrker excellent tcacheL excellcnt Principal fromthe Fujian Govemmel1t and the s~aI government ailowane conferred by the State Councilof the PRC. I am made among the clitc of the city Of Sanming.