Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Zhang Ting
Wearing boxing gloves and waving fists recklessly at the sandbag, some students took advantage of the lunch break to come to the venting equipment room in the psychological counseling room of Qinghe County Junior High School. Experience emotional release here.
“You can think of punching punching bags as something that you hate in your heart, and you can knock it off with all your strength. There is a kind of comfortable pleasure.” Recently, when the reporter was interviewing at the school, the students who were experiencing it told the reporter one after another. express your own feelings.
Exercise helps mental health, and teamwork is also a great way to reduce stress. Under the guidance of a full-time psychology teacher Hu Jie, several ninth grade students who are about to take the high school entrance examination tried to play a sand table game.
In the special box, students use sand, toys, etc. to create and express images, and experience peace and relaxation.
“Teenage children are in adolescence and face pressure from their studies and growth. The mental health of teenagers needs to be paid attention to. Therefore, it is particularly important to do a good job of mental health education.” Hu Jie said that now , she is busy sorting out the mental health assessment files of teachers and students in the school, which is the first task to be completed after the start of each semester.
“According to the results of the assessment, the teachers and students who have problems are classified and registered in sequence, and reported to the school’s mental health work leading group for further analysis and judgment, and the information confidentiality management system is implemented for the problem teachers and students to ensure safe and effective psychological counseling. work.” Hu Jie said.
Speaking of the development of mental health education in schools, Hu Jie opened the conversation.
Hu Jie, a full-time psychologist in Qinghe County Junior High School, is sorting out the mental health assessment files for teachers and students in the school. Pomegranate Cloud/Photo by Zhang Ting, reporter from Xinjiang Daily
In 2008, Hu Jie applied for a job as a mental health teacher in Qinghe County Junior High School. Half a year later, he officially became a full-time psychology teacher in Qinghe County Junior High School. She was also the first high school in the county to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
“I can’t finish the culture class, and I have to take the psychology class every two weeks?” “My child is fine, how can there be any psychological problems?” “Mental health education can’t be seen or touched. It takes so much manpower and material resources, trouble.” At the beginning, there were a lot of questioning voices around her.
“No matter how troublesome it is, I have to do it.” Gao Qingliang, secretary of the Party Committee of Qinghe County Junior High School, introduced that in 2009, the Qinghe County Education Bureau decided to truly find a “mind path”. “Heart starting point” psychological studio, to carry out mental health education activities and psychological counseling services. In terms of investment, Qinghe County is even more willing to “real money”. Walking into Qinghe County Junior High School, “Heart Start” is not just a room for students to talk about their hearts. Here, functional rooms such as psychological counseling center, sand table room, music relaxation room, individual consultation room, group activity room, catharsis room and individual measurement room are fully equipped, and a set of facilities and equipment is worth nearly 1 million yuan.
At the same time, through the establishment of a school that meets the standards of mental health education, the school systematically sorts out and integrates the school’s mental health education and career education, forming “1234 (first line, two points, three aspects, four steps)” Mental health special projects, and further improve the school-based curriculum, characteristic activities and multiple evaluations of mental education, and strive to strengthen regional publicity and radiation effects.
In addition, the school has also built a wealth of school-based courses, such as psychological activity courses, community development courses, theme class meetings, etc., to guide students in all aspects of self-exploration and self-development. It is precisely based on the emphasis on mental health problems that some students’ psychological distress has been significantly improved after staged counseling.
Gradually, this work carried out by the school has also achieved results. In 2011, Qinghe County Junior High School was rated as “Advanced School for Mental Health Work” by the Education Department of the Autonomous Region. In 2015, it was selected as a “National Mental Health Research Project School”. Schools”…
“For the implementation of mental health education, it is not enough to rely on a single school or a government document. Only when it is really necessary to promote it in the county can we find that talents are the key.” Qinghe County Education Zhang Yan, secretary of the party group of the bureau, said frankly that the establishment of mental health education teams in primary and secondary schools is the most difficult “hard bone” to “gnaw”. There are not many full-time psychological teachers in primary and secondary schools in the county. Only when schools at all levels have really formed a mental health education team can this matter be settled.
From 2021, Qinghe County has organized a mental health teacher training. Teacher Sang Chunping from a junior high school is a young English teacher. Tired, but the harvest is not small.” Nowadays, in Qinghe County, there are many teachers like Sang Chunping who take the initiative to “cross-border” part-time mental health education.
“In the past, teachers were only in charge of teaching each subject, but now ‘everyone is a class teacher, and everyone is a parent’. There are more than 150 full-time and part-time mental health teachers in the county, and the county, township, and village Full coverage at all levels.” Zhang Yan said.