The Impact Of Group Counseling On Vocational Students' Mental Heath

This study examined the impact of group counseling on vocational students' mental heath by opening special group counseling lessons. The assessments included the SCL-90, an open questionnaire for evaluating the effect of group counseling. Subjects were 2 classes of students at 1^st grade of a vocational school in Wu Han, and were divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group received a series of group counseling, and the compare groups received any intervention. All participants were assessed by SCL-90 before and after group counseling. The results indicated that the experimental group produced significant differences on the level of mental heath comparing with compare group. Group counseling contribute the formation of self concept, improvement of confidence, reduction of negative feelings, anxiety, fear, loneliness, hostility and depression. Thus, grouping counseling is a benefit tool for vocational educator and worthy to reference. According to the research results, the content of group counseling includes self-concept, behavioral cognition, emotional cognition, decision making and career planning. The educator could make use of the theory learning group activity, game, exercises, discussion and sharing. Because of the importance of students' guidance, there should be a series of training and education program to guarantee the educator's technical ability.