Every new school year, all freshmen who step into the door of Northeastern University will receive a letter of help and a set of inspirational mental health harbor bookmarks printed by the psychological counseling center. Let freshmen feel infinite care and love as soon as they step into the university gate.
On the campus of Northeastern University, you will often see all kinds of posters and banners, such as "looking for reasons to smile, returning to the harbor of the soul", "building a bridge of the soul" and "having a good mood every day", encouraging everyone to care for themselves and others. Since 1997, the school has established a student association-"College Students' Psychological Potential Development Association", which attracts a group of students with strong interest in mental health knowledge every year. So far, nearly 500 students have received training and participated in various activities in this association, and many of them are still active in mental health education positions in various colleges. Organizations organized by students spontaneously, such as the "soul mate" of the School of Business Administration, the "station agent" of the School of Materials and Metallurgy, and the "self-discipline committee" of the School of Resources and Civil Engineering, are doing their best to expand the coverage of mental health education, effectively help students carry out mental health education, and do their best for their healthy growth.
"Mental Health Harbor" is a permanent column in the journal of Northeastern University, which is set up by the school psychological counseling center for the mental health education of college students. The host of the column starts with the little things around students, teaches them to face the difficulties and setbacks in their study and life with a good attitude, and guides them to the society with a positive attitude. As soon as this column was launched, it was widely welcomed by students. Some students also collect every issue of the newspaper as a reference for psychological self-regulation or educational enlightenment.
Educate all staff and strengthen team building.
The school's psychological counseling center has a psychological counseling room and a growth guidance room in the school headquarters and the two campuses of the basic college respectively. It is composed of 9 full-time and part-time teachers, who are responsible for and organize the consultation and counseling of mental health education in the whole school.
In order to improve the professional level of consulting teachers, the school has sent them to participate in training courses organized by the Ministry of Education and Shenyang, and to participate in national psychology seminars and annual meetings. Through systematic study and training, the overall professional level and working ability of teachers have been greatly improved, and two of them have also obtained the qualification of psychological consultants.
The psychological counseling center regularly holds work seminars to exchange experiences. For key cases, the center's full-time and part-time teachers consult collectively to solve problems. The school has purchased and subscribed a large number of books and magazines about psychology and mental health for the psychological counseling center, which can not only improve the professional level of teachers, but also provide many reading opportunities for students to strengthen mental health education in the process of reading.
College students' mental health education is an important part of students' daily education and management, and we must give full play to the great role of the student work team. The school psychological counseling center conducts psychological training for counselors according to the specific conditions of our students, so that they have corresponding psychological knowledge. In daily ideological and political education, they pay attention to distinguishing students' ideological and moral problems from psychological problems, are good at providing targeted counseling and consultation for students' psychological problems, and actively cooperate with teachers in the school psychological counseling center in time to give necessary and appropriate help to students with psychological confusion and psychological obstacles, and assume the duties of student psychological counselors.
Mental health education for college students is a long-term and far-reaching work. The school believes that to effectively carry out mental health education, we should not only focus on solving the problems that have been discovered or occurred, but also systematically study the development law of students' mental health and psychological quality in combination with the current social situation and the characteristics of our students, so as to enhance the pertinence, timeliness and sense of the times of college students' mental health education.