In 2023, 17 departments, including the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission, will issue the "Special Action Plan for Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving Student Mental Health in the New Era (2023-2025)". In the past year, education and related departments across the country have made a lot of effective explorations and formed regional experiences in the work of students' mental health.
In the survey, Gao Jinfeng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and principal of Jiangyan District Experimental Primary School Education Group in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, found that in the face of the higher requirements of students' mental health work in the new era, there are still some problems in adolescent mental health work at this stage.
Gao Jinfeng said that there are deviations in the ideological understanding of some regions and schools, believing that psychological problems are hidden, the causes of problems are complex, and extreme events are sudden, and regular research is neglected, resulting in poor implementation of mental health care for adolescents and lack of professional support. Nearly 40% of schools did not meet the requirement of "at least one full-time mental health teacher", and 28% of schools did not allocate full-time (part-time) mental health teachers according to the teacher-student ratio of 1:500. The systematization of training and research on mental health at all levels is not strong, and there are few practical and skill-based case analysis. In addition, the "all-staff tutor system" in some areas and schools is not equipped as required, and the construction of psychological counseling rooms is not up to standard, which cannot meet the actual needs.
In the school, the school's scientific evaluation system for the 'simultaneous development of five educations' has not been fully established, and there is a one-sided pursuit of test scores and after-school service content lists.
1. The implementation of courses such as music, sports, art, labor, and science is discounted, and the homework structure needs to be optimized. Gao Jinfeng said.
In this regard, Gao Jinfeng proposed to promote the "health first" action. Implement the assessment orientation of putting students' mental health first. Promote the increase of overall planning, optimize the structure of expenditures, effectively strengthen funding guarantees, and establish the priority status of students' mental health work. **Lead the four-party linkage of "home, school, social and political" from spontaneous to conscious, and study the laws of mental health work attentively.
In terms of creating a "professional support" model, Gao Jinfeng believes that it is necessary to organize a professional team to compile mental health curriculum standards and clarify the overall goals and requirements of mental health education. **The department has made overall plans in terms of establishment, professional title evaluation, and funding, and has increased support for mental health teachers through measures such as recruitment, certification, transfer, scheduling, and purchase. Guide the "home-school social politics" to establish a scientific outlook on talents, and build a comprehensive education evaluation system.
How to optimize the chain of "system governance"? "Establish mechanisms for early warning, monitoring, counseling, and intervention of students' mental health, optimize the whole chain of 'home, school, social and political' adolescent mental health escort combinations, and focus on special time points, places, and groups. The education department takes the lead, provides multi-professional cooperation and guidance, provides consultation, professional screening, establishes a 'one policy for a lifetime' mental health file, and promotes mutual understanding of the situation of special students in 'home, school, social and political', interaction of mechanisms, and mutual help in crises. Gao Jinfeng said.
Author: Yu Yuekun Wang Yang.