First, the impact of the Internet on the mental health of middle school students
As a new form of information exchange and interpersonal communication, the Internet provides teenagers with a huge space for self-creation, expanding communication, increasing knowledge, psychological communication and resolving bad emotions, but it also gives birth to many psychological problems, which has both positive and negative effects on the mental health development of teenagers.
(A) the positive impact of the Internet on students' mental health
1 is conducive to enhancing students' subjective consciousness and self-confidence and improving their mental health. All kinds of internet, campus network and community provide a new world for students to know themselves and display their talents. They not only exercised their thinking ability, but also improved their judgment and judgment on things. Through self-control and self-education, we can understand and adjust our psychological state and relationship with others, improve our self-confidence and improve our mental health.
2. It can cultivate teenagers' exploration spirit and create unprecedented conditions for their all-round development. Teenagers fall in love with the internet, and the greatest pleasure of surfing the internet is to explore unknown areas, show themselves in virtual time and space and realize themselves. Network society is an all-round open society. People can not only absorb information to the maximum extent, but also spread information to the maximum extent, and the resources of the network society are extremely rich. The exchange, collision and even integration of different information have broadened students' horizons, and compared with traditional educational information sources, they have more choices. They are no longer led by a single kind of information, opinions and values, and they are no longer at the feet of any authority. They can compare all kinds of information, opinions and value orientations, find out their similarities and differences, advantages and disadvantages, good and evil, and also do in-depth exploration, thinking and reflection to find a basis for their reasonable choice, so as to gradually develop their independent personality of thinking, evaluation and choice.
It provides a good way to vent bad emotions. Middle school students are under pressure from school, society, parents and other aspects, and are prone to abnormal emotions such as nervousness, fear, anxiety and depression, and their mental health is affected. Emotional expression and catharsis play an important role in the maintenance and treatment of mental health. The virtual anonymity of the internet provides a new way for students to express their feelings and vent their bad emotions. In real life, teenagers' emotions cannot be freely expressed, and they are always restricted by the surrounding environment and always face the emotional atmosphere of their own survival. In the network society, they can talk about everything. As long as we abide by the network protocol, the network will obediently listen to instructions, do what we like to do, say what we want to say, and enjoy chatting with like-minded people, so as to obtain emotional experiences that are impossible to achieve in the real world.
(B) the negative impact of the Internet on students' mental health
Many facts tell us that whenever a new technology appears, it may become a "double-edged sword", and the network is no exception. There are joys and sorrows in the network. It has both positive and negative effects on youth education.
1, network communication leads to teenagers' indifference to real communication. The indirectness of network communication mode, the virtuality of communication role, the directness of communication behavior and the equality of communication relationship meet the needs of teenagers to some extent, making them feel self-realization in the process of communication. This idealized feeling is very addictive. Emotional communication and spiritual communication between people play a very important role in the process of a person's growth and socialization, and the change of communication mode will lead to corresponding changes in many aspects of people. The indifference to real communication caused by indulging in network communication will further evolve into numbness to real feelings, lack of sense of justice and morality, and even lose the most basic ability of fact and moral judgment. Therefore, the influence of the change of interpersonal communication mode caused by social informatization and networking on teenagers cannot be underestimated.
Internet has weakened teenagers' moral consciousness. The information on the Internet is mixed. Due to the lack of effective supervision, online and spam are popular. Teenagers' information selection ability, right and wrong discrimination ability and self-adjustment ability are not enough to resist the negative influence of these bad information, and it is easy to become the object of "pollution" of bad information unconsciously. The Internet is highly hidden, and people who surf the Internet lack the pressure of "others being present", so the suppressed evil side of human nature in daily life will be vented in this unconstrained or low-constrained situation. Objectively, this will easily lead to the weakening of teenagers' online moral sense, which may affect teenagers' moral behavior in real life, making some teenagers have a weak sense of right and wrong, weakened moral awareness, lowered moral level and lack of self-discipline.
3. The flood of network information will easily lead to teenagers' self-loss, and the formation and development of personality will be hindered. Healthy psychology is closely related to healthy personality, and correct self-awareness is an important part of healthy personality. Teenagers who are infatuated with the internet are apt to blindly absorb and even worship all kinds of information rendered in media cultures such as TV and Internet because of their lack of ability to accept new things and their own cognitive ability. At the same time, due to excessive worship, it is easy to have inferiority complex. In addition, some teenagers are obsessed with computer networks, because they accepted the magical rendering of cyber hackers and finally neglected their studies. Compared with most people, these problems of teenagers who are addicted to the internet easily lead to their inability to grasp themselves objectively and position themselves in the real society, which is not conducive to the formation of good self-awareness, and ultimately leads to their loss and obstacles in personality development.
Second, the superiority of mental health education in the network environment
With the advent of the Internet age, network technology is infiltrating into all fields of society at an alarming rate, which also provides a broader space for the development of school mental health education and opens up a brand-new road. I think mental health education under the network environment has the following advantages:
(A) the form of mental health education under the network environment is flexible, novel and simple.
Middle school students are the fastest to accept new things, and they are also the most curious and eager to explore. The novelty and diversity of the network are very attractive to them. Mental health education requires giving full play to students' subjectivity and truly being "student-centered", but in fact, due to the limitation of time and space, students are still in a very passive position under the traditional education model. From the traditional practice of mental health education, the spread of psychological knowledge and psychological technology and the solution of psychological problems mainly depend on classroom teaching and the conversation between teachers and students in psychological clinics, as well as the use of books, activities and other media. The spread and radiation of these media are very limited and the speed is very slow. Because students can only passively accept psychology and education in a relatively fixed time and space, the degree of students' learning choices is greatly reduced, and they cannot choose appropriate courses and learning contents according to their hobbies and needs. Moreover, the mental health education under the network environment is not limited by time and space, and the operation is convenient and simple, which facilitates the teaching and learning of teachers and students to some extent. Moreover, mental health education attaches great importance to mutual assistance, emphasizing the exchange of information, experience and mutual assistance between teachers and students. These requirements are greatly restricted under the traditional education mode.
(B) The network environment provides a platform for teacher-student interaction and frank communication.
Mental health education under the network environment has strong man-machine interaction. Students can interact and treat each other honestly between teachers, students and peers through e-mail and online chat rooms, and can appear as helpers or helpers. This fully embodies the subjective principle of psychological education, which is helpful to give play to the subjective initiative of teenagers and cultivate their cooperative spirit. Moreover, mental health education under the network environment has a strong concealment. Students open their hearts to privacy issues, speak freely and have no scruples, fully reveal themselves and eliminate psychological "insecurity", which will undoubtedly greatly improve the effect of mental health education.
(C) the network environment provides rich information resources to better realize the enjoyment of resources.
Under the network environment, mental health education has a large amount of information and a wide coverage, which can connect many excellent mental health education resources in series and realize resource enjoyment without time and space restrictions. Young students can listen to the opinions of different psychologists according to their own practical problems, so as to avoid the influence of the limitations of knowledge or experience on the effect of mental health education. In addition, the communication, sharing and popularization of psychological education information on the Internet is very convenient for school educators, parents and the public, which can greatly enhance the effectiveness of mental health education. The network environment provides a platform for schools, parents and society to exchange information, share resources and cooperate closely, which greatly improves the effect of mental health education in schools.
(D) The network provides a platform for students to help themselves, with vivid forms and timely effects.
Under the network environment, the content of mental health education is often illustrated and vivid, which is more advantageous than traditional means of mental health education such as letters, newspapers, radio and television. Moreover, in the absence of teachers, students can choose their own learning content, learning progress and service items according to their own needs, they can take questions to the Internet to find answers, and they can also communicate and share their joys and sorrows with everyone online. All these are very attractive to young students who like novelty and pursuit, and at the same time fully embody the essential characteristics of "self-education" and "self-help" in mental health education. In addition, online psychological service is instant, and students can seek its help at any time, which may be more necessary, timely and effective, especially for those who are psychologically confused and mentally retarded.
Thirdly, how to make the Internet a platform for expanding mental health education?
Internet has caused many negative effects on teenagers' mental health. Relevant experts and educators believe that we should neither give up eating because of choking, nor give up eating because of choking. We should adapt to the development of the internet age, make use of the advantages of network information, carry out mental health education, and minimize the negative impact of the internet on teenagers.
(A) to guide young people to establish a correct view of the network
At present, students' understanding of the network focuses on the mastery and application of technology. They are often attracted by the colorful information and forms of communication spread online, but they lack in-depth understanding and thinking about the influence of the network on their own quality, the influence of the network on social morality and the change of the network on human life. Therefore, we should popularize network knowledge among middle school students, improve their scientific understanding of network, make them realize the harm of network to mental health, and consciously establish the concept of network mental health. At the same time, strengthen network moral education, advocate network moral self-discipline, educate them to consciously abide by online moral norms, and consciously strengthen self-discipline and responsibility awareness.
(2) Relying on the campus network, strengthen the construction of online campus culture and create a platform for mental health education.
Active campus network information resources, strengthen the construction of network campus culture, schools can enrich their own campus network resources and guide students to surf the Internet correctly; Increase educational information resources, recommend good ones that are closely related to students' study and life, and apply the network to teaching, such as establishing various disciplines, publishing teaching contents and resources online, and providing more useful information. At the same time, e-mail and message boards can strengthen communication between teachers and students, promote communication and interaction between teachers and students, fully embody students' subjectivity and extend teaching space. Schools can also use online message boards to collect students' suggestions and concerns about schools through the Internet. Students can speak anonymously on the message board and tell their joys and sorrows in life and study. At the same time, teachers can also solve problems for students by replying to messages. On the campus network platform, teachers can also create related moral education pages and mental health pages, so that the campus network can become a bridge between teachers and students.
Strengthen the construction of campus culture, enrich students' cultural life and let them grow up healthily and happily. Schools can use the campus network as a carrier to carry out colorful and positive online knowledge contests, online scientific and technological knowledge questions and answers, online news surveys and other cultural, artistic and sports activities. Combine network culture with campus culture closely, guide students to truly feel the network world full of challenges and opportunities, and fully stimulate self-motivation and creativity.
(C) to start psychological quality education, to carry out network psychology
Mental health education is based on improving the psychological quality of all students, taking classroom teaching and extracurricular education guidance as the main channels and basic links, forming a mental health education network and system combining in-class and extracurricular, educational guidance and self-help, paying attention to students' understanding of the basic knowledge of mental health, strengthening the education and guidance of autonomy, self-discipline and psychological adaptability, and helping them learn to correctly handle various relationships between the online world and real life. Full-time psychological staff and school leaders can set up psychological auxiliary organizations, set up school psychological or psychological centers, and equip them with a certain number of specialized personnel, necessary and standardized places and equipment. , so as to increase the publicity of psychological education, widely popularize mental health knowledge, enhance students' mental health awareness and improve their enthusiasm for psychological help. At the same time, we can make use of the advantages of fast network speed, good confidentiality and wide spread to set up psychology, release healthy and beneficial information, speech and knowledge, firmly attract students, give them positive and beneficial things, improve their immunity and judgment, and play a correct guiding role. At the same time, columns such as "mental health common sense", "mental health chat room" and "psychological test" are set up to guide online behavior training and provide students with timely and effective psychological support.
(D) Strengthen the use of network supervision to improve students' self-control ability.
Although the self-control ability of teenagers has developed to a certain extent, it is not fully mature. Some teenagers can't control their thoughts and behaviors well, and their ideological understanding has not yet reached a mature level. The network is just a tool, and it can't replace the dominant position of people in any case. Therefore, we must help teenagers understand the nature of network tools and strengthen the supervision of teenagers' network use. In particular, it is necessary to solve the problems of "what to do" and "how to do it" on the Internet, and provide necessary supervision and protection so that they can use the Internet healthily. Teenagers generally only use their spare time to surf the Internet, but if they spend all their spare time surfing the Internet and neglect other important activities such as reading and taking part in physical exercise, it will affect their healthy development. Therefore, in addition to supervision, strengthening the guidance and management of teenagers' extracurricular activities, enriching students' extracurricular activities, cultivating their various interests and improving the quality of teenagers' participation in extracurricular activities are effective means to prevent teenagers from overusing the Internet and reduce the negative impact of the Internet on teenagers. Strengthening ideological and moral education, cultivating noble sentiments and improving personal self-control ability are important conditions for promoting teenagers' healthy use of the internet. We believe that through the correct network education, it is entirely possible for teenagers to correctly understand and use the network, become the masters of network technology, and make the network active in their lives instead of indulging them.
Fourthly, the problems that should be paid attention to in mental health education under the network environment.
As a double-edged sword, the Internet has brought people knowledge and convenience, but it has also brought some negative and adverse effects. Therefore, I think that mental health education under the network environment should pay attention to the following problems.
(1) Strengthen network moral education and promote students' online self-discipline.
The network is a "double-edged sword", and all kinds of information in the network have both positive and negative effects on students' mental health. For example, a large amount of "yellow garbage" in the network is very harmful to young students. Some online games and online gambling are very attractive to young students, and some students even indulge in them, which seriously threatens their physical and mental health. Therefore, we should attach great importance to students' network moral education, improve their ability to distinguish and judge network information, enhance their awareness of "immunity" and self-protection, make them move from moral heteronomy to self-discipline, and realize that they are not only users of the network, but also builders and real masters of the network. In addition, the whole society should strengthen network legislation, advocate network civilization, actively carry out various online health activities, strive to form a healthy and civilized online atmosphere, and minimize the negative impact of the network itself on students' mental health.
(2) Guide students to grasp the "degree" of surfing the Internet.
Educate students to use the internet correctly and use it in moderation, and not to indulge in it or even become addicted, which will make students lose their sense of time, greatly reduce their sleep and confuse or reverse their pace of life; Poor eyesight, shoulder and back muscle strain, weakened immune function, etc. , will inevitably affect the health, easy to produce introverted personality, impatient impulse, easy to idealize things, perfect, become unrealistic. Communicating with people through the network is actually a state of man-machine dialogue. Visualization of network communication (pictures, words, sounds and images) strengthens students' acceptance of seeing and weakens students' thinking mode. Internet can greatly satisfy students' curiosity, but their psychology is not yet mature. When these students are trapped in the internet, how can they have abundant energy and full emotions to finish their studies?
In a word, it is a brand-new subject to study the mental health education of middle school students under the network environment. As educators, we should attach importance to the mental health education under the network environment and keep exploring, exploring and advancing along this road.