Elementary School Students Mental Health Education Problems And Countermeasures Research

In today’s society characterized by rapidly developing technology and increasingly intense competition, quality-oriented education is being gradually implemented in China."People first" and "paying attention to students’growth" are becoming the main principles of education. But the mental health of the adolescents is getting worse. In order to have a deep understanding of the mental health of primary school students in the area which the author’s school is located at and which borders both the urban and rural areas in Zhongshan city, and to try to get some useful practice which may be useful for the mental health education in primary schools in this area, and to enrich and perfect the theoretical and practical results of the research on mental health education, the author selected six primary schools in the area which borders both the urban and rural areas (two are provincial band1schools, and two are municipal Band1schools and two are average schools) which include private schools and from each school one or two classes of Grade4-Grade6(the number of students is about900) are randomly chosen to be the research objects. The39primary school leadership and the mental health of teacher interviews questionnaire.The research results show that the primary schools in the area which borders both the urban and rural areas have made some progress on mental health education. But generally speaking, mental health education in this area is still at the initial stage, and developing in a state of imbalance. Compared with mental health education in developed areas, there are several gaps. The leaders of education departments and schools and teachers in this area should attach greater importance to mental health education and the work on promoting it in primary schools should be strengthened. Many schools are short of psychology teacher. Mental health education still has a low level of specialization in this area due to lack of formal theoretical and practical guidance.Based on the abovementioned research results, the following suggestions are proposed in this paper:The thought of education should be changed; awareness on mental health education in schools should be raised; more professional psychology teachers should be recruited; local mental health education center should be built to strength information exchange; a good teaching atmosphere of psychology should be built up to train the students’ability of independent learning and creation; more money and effort should be put into promoting mental health education.