First, what is mental health?
According to the definition of health by the United Nations World Health Organization: "Health is not only the absence of disease, but also a good physical, psychological and social state or security and tranquility." Mental health, also known as mental health, aims at promoting people's psychological adjustment and developing greater efficiency, enabling people to live healthily in the environment, maintaining and constantly improving their mental health level, thus better adapting to social life and making more effective contributions to society and mankind.
Second, the main reasons for psychological barriers of primary school students
Unbalanced physical and mental development: physical development changes rapidly in primary school. They have no experience, lack of knowledge and experience, and their cognitive ability, understanding, thinking ability and feelings are far behind those of adults. This imbalance between physical development and psychological development has caused many puzzles, troubles and anxieties among primary school students, resulting in psychological problems.
Misunderstanding of family education: Overindulgence and high expectations make family education generally tend to ignore social education such as moral development, personality education, practical ability and social responsibility. Parents only pay attention to their children's exams and further studies, but they don't pay attention to their moral development, communication skills, personality cultivation and social behavior norms.
Misunderstanding of school education: Some schools and teachers are under pressure to make every effort to pursue the rate of enrollment and achievement as the only criterion for evaluating students' ability. If students' emotional troubles cannot be told to teachers and parents in time, it will cause psychological stress and form psychological barriers.
The influence of social environment: school education shows students positive education, but various ideological trends are impacting our society today. The pure educational content is in sharp contrast with the complicated social life, which leads students to fall into a situation of no reference and no attachment. The confusion of students' thoughts and emotional fluctuations are also one of the reasons for the formation of psychological obstacles.
Third, the main countermeasures to deal with the psychological barriers of primary school students
1, eliminating rebellious psychology-communication. Firstly, cultivate students' social adaptability, and ask them to cultivate their own thoughts and sentiments in society and establish a correct outlook on life and world; Secondly, they are required to understand adults in a positive sense, that parents and teachers are well-intentioned criticisms, and that adults make mistakes; Third, educate students to know themselves correctly, grasp themselves and strive to improve themselves; Finally, parents and teachers are required to pay more attention to their children's psychological needs.
2. Eliminate inferiority and loneliness-enhance self-confidence. First of all, teachers should help students analyze their own advantages, make a correct evaluation and give full play to their own strengths; Secondly, do everything possible to improve your self-confidence; Finally, it is to guide students to overcome their inferiority by assiduously making up their shortcomings and fostering their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses. Teachers should help these students find their own breakthrough and make achievements in a certain aspect through hard work.
3. Eliminate sensitive and fragile psychology-cultivate will. To eliminate fragile psychology, we must first guide students to establish a correct outlook on life and world and improve their cognitive level; Secondly, improve students' self-control level and cultivate their frustration tolerance; Third, overcome the pessimistic and negative mentality and establish self-confidence and self-motivation; Finally, it is to teach students how to release negative emotions and get rid of pessimism and disappointment, that is, to divert attention by organizing students to participate in social practice, improving their psychological endurance and cultivating various interests.