All schools in Jianghua, Hunan Province have psychological counselors —— Education to help the poor begins with "heart"

"Teacher, I didn't do well in the mock exam twice in a row. When I heard that the candidates began to answer questions, my mind went blank ... "After listening to the distress of the students who came to consult, Tang Tianyi, director of the mental health education guidance center for primary and secondary schools in Jianghua Yao Autonomous County, Hunan Province and a mental health education teacher in Jianghua No.2 Middle School, gave the students a psychological" prescription "to solve the anxiety before the exam, and the consultants suddenly became enlightened.

"Education to help the poor starts from the' heart' and is also rooted in the overall promotion of mental health education in the county, making children more sunny." Tang Tianyi said that all primary and secondary schools in Jianghua have carried out a variety of mental health education activities according to students' psychological characteristics, guiding students to relax their mentality, realizing educational assistance based on "mind" and promoting students' healthy and happy growth.

At the beginning, the Education Bureau of Jianghua Yao Autonomous County started the "Mental Health Education Year for Primary and Secondary Schools" by analyzing the current situation of teachers and students, and according to the goal of "beautiful campus, happy teachers and students, and ideal education", set up a mental health education guidance center to promote mental health education to primary and secondary schools in the county, and comprehensively solved the mental health problems of poor students and left-behind children.

In the past three years, the county has invested more than RMB 10 million, and 78 primary and secondary schools have made solid progress in accordance with the "seven haves" of institutions, posts, funds, activities, teams, mechanisms and assessment. Mental health teachers in more than 40 schools, such as Tuojiang No.2 Primary School, Mashi Middle School, Haojiang Complete Primary School, Xiuwen Bridgette School and Baimangying Central Primary School, have started individual counseling and group counseling for teachers and students. The psychological consultation room has really become the position of psychological counseling for teachers and students and the base for helping poor students.

County Education Bureau cooperated with hunan university of science and engineering to train a mental health consultant for each school. At present, 154 students have passed the national psychological counselor qualification examination, and obtained the third-and second-level psychological counselor qualifications, thus achieving the goal of having one psychological counselor in every primary and secondary school. At the same time, the county has absorbed 10 three-level psychological counselors with strong ability and high quality, enriching the strength of the mental health education guidance center for primary and secondary schools in the county and providing professional guidance and training for primary and secondary schools in the county.

In order to promote mental health education, the county designated 20 17 as the "year of mental health project", and put mental health education into the important work of the school to further promote mental health education as a whole. Tang Xiaoren, director of the county education bureau, said that the education bureau is the strong backing of psychological educators, and makes every effort to promote mental health education with administrative support, expert guidance, teachers' joint efforts and activity support.

By inviting in and sending out, the county has trained principals, vice principals of moral education, teaching directors and mental health teachers in group counseling, sand table games and special knowledge, and invited 10 well-known mental health education experts from the province to Jianghua for "teaching, research and training".

At present, 5,000 teachers in the county have benefited from special lectures on mental health education, and more than 80,000 teachers, students and parents have participated in the publicity activities of "sending hearts to campus" and "sending hearts to community"; More than 400 individuals received psychotherapy, which effectively improved the mental health awareness of teachers, students and the masses, laid a solid foundation for mental health education and injected a strong force into education to help the poor.