Research On The Health Of Living Alone Children Left In Rural Areas

Living Alone Children (LAC) is without parental presence in rural areas because their parents go out to work in cities. There are tens of millions of LAC In China’s vast rural areas. LAC’s normal growth environment regularly lack education and care from parental because they separate with migrant parents long time, so, their growth produced a lot of negative effects. Especially their mental health has being maladaptive tendencies.LAC’s overall mental health for this group of children is basically in the normal condition. And it did not achieve the required level of particular concern. Therefore, There is a small portion of LAC exist more serious psychological problems. Part of the LAC exist more than moderate psychological problems in some of the indicators or factors. These indicators focused on learning anxiety, poor social and interpersonal relationships, depression and loneliness, self-evaluation is not high, physical symptoms and maladaptive. Relative to the non-LAC, LAC’s level of mental health is not optimistic.There are four main reasons for the LAC massive emergence of mental health problems. Imbalances of socio-economic development structural and incomplete of LAC’s education system are two external factors. The former produces LAC, and the latter which led to quality education is lacking. They lead LAC’S lives and educational environment cannot achieve normal psychological needs of children. Social discord and LAC’s deviation personality traits are two internal factors. The former leads to loss their emotional, values disorder and other issues. The latter produce some personality defects as individuals introverted, withdrawn, not gregarious,and so on.From the macro to micro and from the big environment to a small environment, There are four aspects to solve LAC’s mental health problems. They build the multiple support systems to improve mental health of LAC together.First, It is need to strengthen the government’s dominant function. It includes improve the regional economic structure, implementation of urban and rural reform, and strengthen construction and guide of the social support system. The social support system includes following: Establishment of care center for LAC, Establish coordination mechanisms of various departments, Establishment boarding schools, Encourage community volunteers helping, Purify the environment around the school, The establishment of rural school for parents, Caring for Girls of LAC, Establishment activities between urban and rural children, Improve community management functions, Implement the education fair idea.The second, to build a complete system of quality education, Adhere to quality education education reform goals. For LAC’s mental health, reflected in all aspects of the comprehensive role of education and advantages,School, family and society should focus on quality education. Especially school should change the concept of education, Strengthen moral education, Strengthen mental health counseling topics, Reinforce classroom teacher in the classroom teaching mental health aspects of education, Pay more attention to other factors than achievement.Third, prompting a rich social life of LAC. Parents, teachers, temporary guardian, peers interact to jointly build a diverse social network of relationships. This can carry out a comprehensive variety of extracurricular activities, and help LAC build maintain emotional and affection ties.Finally, to enhance educational theory and skills of the LAC’s parents. through parental guidance and assistance to correct bad personality tendencies.