College students' mental health education

Author: Huang Xiting
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Publish Date: 2007-06-01
Features: The concept of mental health is both vague. When establishing mental health, people may rely on different standards or have different focal points, and the criteria they grasp may also vary. In the author's view, mental health is hierarchical and can be roughly divided into three levels: mental illness or disorders, normal psychological function, and mentally healthy individuals. Among these, mental illness or disorders belong to the unhealthy level. Normal psychological function belongs to the level of psychological adaptation, with its main characteristics primarily the ability to eliminate excessive tension and anxiety to achieve an internal balance state, adapt to the surrounding environment, and have no serious internal conflicts. Perfect personality belongs to the high level of mental health, characterized by pursuing noble goals, developing constructive interpersonal relationships, engaging in socially valuable creation, desiring life challenges, and seeking life fulfillment and meaning in life. One of the series of 21st-century higher normal education textbooks. The book is divided into three parts, with main content including general issues of mental health education for college students, college life and mental health, interpersonal relationships and mental health, love, sex, employment and mental health, and self-maintenance of college students' mental health, including coping with setbacks, regulating anxiety, adjusting depression, and recognizing and intervening in crises.