Frontiers in Educational Research, 2023, 6(2); doi: 10.25236/FER.2023.060224.
Junru Wu1, Ruibo Xie2
1Mental Health Education Center, Zhejiang Industry Polytechnic College, Shaoxing, China
2Parent Education Research Center, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
Improving positive psychological quality not only can make students gain more happiness, but also can promote students' all-round development, which has become the direction of mental health education in colleges and universities to focus on. As a part of ideological and political education, mental health education should take the initiative to undertake the mission of education and leading of the times, which is both the actual nature of the change of the concept of education in the background of the Great Ideological and Political Science, and the natural nature of the increasing improvement of mental health education mode in the process of practice. The education-led mental health education model should focus on improving students' positive psychological quality, and implement it in the "four-in-one" mental health education pattern, while actively building an internal and external guarantee system to ensure the effective implementation of the model.
positive psychological quality, education-led, mental health education model, higher education, development services
Junru Wu, Ruibo Xie. Exploration of an Education-Led Mental Health Education Model—with the Enhancement of Positive Psychological Qualities as the Core. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 2: 124-131. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.060224.
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