Study On Perceptions Towards 'Mental Health' Among Parents Of Middle School Students

Family, the living environment and growing room of middle school students, is very important. parents' mental health perspectives have important influence on children's mental health. There is a lack of empirical research of middle school students' parents psychological health perspectives nowadays. Therefore, in order to understand the situation of parents psychological health perspectives in high school,this study processesing with self-made questionnaire about parents' mental health perspectives surveyed 491 students in the six middle school of Nanchang. Utilizing of the interview method to inquire into the present situation of mental health perspectives of parents is another highlights of this study. And the results are as follows:(1) the grade point average of questionnaire of this study is 3.97 points with five scoring method, besides, the higher the score, the better parents psychological health perspectives. So high school students parents psychological health perspectives is in the average level. Interview result shows that parents' knowledge of mental health has the characteristics of vagueness, empiricism. The study also find that individual subjects and dimensions verified through the interview and questionnaire survey is different in the results.(2) the mental health perspectives of middle school students' parents existed differences in demographic data, mainly reflects in: the score of highly educated parents is higher than the low degree; economic condition of parents is superior, the score is higher; parents that have experienced psychological counseling score higher than the parents without consulting experience; Parents who have heard lectures about psychological mental health have better mental health perspectives than parents who haven't heard of related lectures; Reading books on mental health can help parents get higher scores of questionnaire.(3)Inadequacy of mental health perspectives of middle school students' parents :parents take a one-sided view in mental health standards of middle school students;parents perfer to develope children's social adaptability and enhance their competitive power rather than the positive emotional experience; parents' false attribution of misdeed; less attention from parents to the psychological characteristics of adolescents; the code of moral is taken as the criterion of mental health by parents.Through the discussion about the present situation of middle school students' parents psychological health perspectives, I found that some countermeasures should be contained in the school mental health education system to improve parents psychological health perspectives. There are some examples: First of all, schools should set up a related coordination organization responsible for the mental health education of parants. secondly, improving parents psychological health perspectives from effective methods, like mental health lectures, manual of mental health, kinds of new media, new type of parents meeting, the coalition of government and community to improve the parents' mental health perspectives.