A Comparison Of Mental Health Service In Chinese & British Higher Education

Followed by the social development of China,mental well-being service tends to be a significant component of Chinese socialist spiritual civilization construction.Meantime,mental health becomes one of the standard measures of talent,and the human care,education and mental well-being service,which supplied by Chinese higher education,turn to be the increasing concern by the society.Based on the recent 30 years’ exploration and research on national and international theories,mental well-being service has achieved lots.For recent several years,a series of university crises pushed the mental well-being service into the centre.Higher education,as a special place,now is facing a problem,which is how to supply effective and scientific mental well-being service to the administrators,faculties ans students better,based on the present construction and system of well-being service.In order to release the social crisis caused by the WW II,the student well-being service in British higher education gained great development since the middle of 20th century;from 1980s,because of the enlargement of enrollment,British universities met more students,especially the international students,which caused to requirement of student well-being service getting bigger.British university responded actively,and showed the importance and uniqueness of this service.Based on the different development,it is meaningful to make a comparison and analysis of mental well-being service of Chinese and British universities.This paper tries to make a research and comparison of both parties’ well-being service from different aspects,find out both advantages and disadvantages,and summarize the relative reasons.Meanwhile,the paper also attempts to raise the effective suggestion to help the development process of the mental well-being service in Chinese universities.