Group Work Intervention On Rural Freshman Interpersonal Adaptability

For a rural freshmen who just entered into the university from the high school,the studying and living environment suddenly had a huge change.How to adapt into the life in the university as soon as possible,and complete the role transition are the most important problems they will face.Due to the differences in areas,living backgrounds,cultures and customs,it is easy for the rural freshmen to have relevant adaptability problems such as interpersonal communication and environment acceptation while they enter in the university.And therefore,influencing the development of their mental health.As well as a problem that must be faced and solved for the university educators.This paper took the freshmen of 2018 in school of humanity in F university as the research object,exploring the factors caused the interpersonal communication problems for the rural freshmen according to the results of College Students Mental Health Screening Scale,and the analysis and comparison of the mental health status and interpersonal communication situation of the rural freshmen and the urban freshmen.Therefore,the group work method was used to intervene and explore the social work mode that can improve interpersonal communication ability of the rural freshmen.According to the data analysis of the Scale,it is found that the rate of mental health problem for the rural freshmen is higher than the one for the urban freshmen.In addition,through the further analysis in terms of the interpersonal communication problem,it showed that the interpersonal communication adaptability for the rural freshmen was comparatively poorer than that of the urban freshmen.The social workers used group working method,organizing 6 group activities,and assessed the process,the outcome and the satisfaction level.The results showed that the group activities have made certain achievements in helping the rural freshmen with improving their adaptability problems.This article has proposed in the suggestions that the university and education administrative departments should strengthen the concerns of the rural freshmen's mental health status,and introducing professional methods for social working.In addition,strengthen the individual cases counselling and group works for the rural freshmen to improve their abilities in interpersonal communication and social adaptability.And enhance the social support for the rural freshmen,promoting the social integration and healthy growth for the rural freshmen.