Geng Jing, strategic executive of Shandong University Human Capital Bank and operation director of Jinan Mental Health Center, has been engaged in professional and psychological training for college students for 13 years.
In July 2021, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Strengthening Student Mental Health Management", and Shandong Provincial Department of Education and Shandong Provincial Health Commission issued the "Notice on Accelerating the Construction of Mental Health Education System for Colleges, Middle Schools and Primary Schools in the Province". Students’ mental health has become an important matter in the country and society.
In recent years, college students have frequently encountered psychological problems. Admission anxiety, interpersonal anxiety, social fear, school admission anxiety, employment depression, love breakdown, campus violence, campus mental PUA, emergency paranoia after being deceived, emergency psychological reflexes caused students to frequently suffer depression, suicide, poisoning, and even commit crimes, which has attracted widespread attention from the society.
College students are hopes cultivated by their families through hard work, talents cultivated by the society's resources, and key to various important positions in the country in the future. Once problems such as self-harm, suicide, and hatred of society occur due to psychological (quality), it will be an immeasurable loss to society and even the country.
Exploring a scientific, effective, professional and acceptable path to psychological quality training for college students is very important. Traditional psychological diagnosis and treatment are often rejected because of their cognitive influences such as privacy destruction and personality frustration. Psychological diagnosis and treatment and psychological emergency are not as good as psychological prevention. It cognizes and trains healthy psychological elements and psychological states, and supports scientific and healthy psychological growth and development. Focus on preventing key psychological problems at different ages. It is crucial to solve problems before the results occur.
Regarding this topic, we interviewed Geng Jing, the operation director of Jinan Mental Health Center, hoping to give us more inspiration through her experience in this industry.
Q: Quality training is a relatively difficult training path, especially for college students' psychological quality training. Why did you choose this industry?
Answer: I started training on professional qualities of college students a long time ago. He has contacted and trained more than 100,000 college students. While working in depth at college students, you will also learn more about college students’ real problems and needs. College students are pillars of the country and an important main force in social construction and development. In the past, college students' skills training and job hunting issues were often paid more attention. In recent years, psychological problems among college students have frequently occurred and have attracted more and more attention from the society. Of course, I am also very concerned about it in the front-line training position and explore a feasible path that can help college students establish mental health and psychological safety as soon as possible.
College students are talents trained through national selection and full support from each family. In the past selection process, such talents are more knowledge reserves and competition from "study hard" and the living atmosphere they accept and the social relationships they deal with are relatively simple. After entering university, if you break away from the established familiar environment, you need to establish various relationships in a larger scope. The changes in campus social activities, social practices and conscious learning atmosphere have brought new experiences to most college students, and are accompanied by great challenges.
Many college students fall into confusion in college: the confusion of professional knowledge can seek professors and teachers to solve their problems, and career confusion can seek schools and related career planning institutions, while psychological confusion does not have an effective and accessible outlet. Psychological confusion includes psychological qualities (strong, independence, self-esteem, self-love, self-confidence, loyalty, persistence, belief, values, etc.), psychological qualities (bearing, frustration, tolerance, resistance to stress, etc.), psychological state (optimism, initiative, responsibility, etc.), emotional relationships (teacher-student relationship, peer relationship, romantic relationship, strange social interaction), etc. Different psychological cognitions will lead to different behavioral results. If psychological confusion continues to be unrelieved, college students will develop self-doubt and may even suffer self-harm and passive harm in some events. Some students start to lie down (powerless), some revenge (turn anger into violence), some self-abuse, some depression... and eventually they will also lead to employment problems.Carrying out psychological literacy training for college students can effectively solve the above problems and better support college students to achieve good academic and work results.
Improving psychological quality is fundamental and an urgent task, although this is not an easy path. But my personality likes challenges, and this thing is very meaningful. I have to do it. No matter how many difficulties there are, I will continue to choose this path.
Q: What psychological quality problems occur among college students?
Answer: There are many kinds of things I have seen and experienced. Many college students are full of expectations and passion for college and future life when they are in their freshman year. There are many psychochemical reactions in their lives, which we also call environmental impacts. Some students have caused interpersonal tension and inferiority due to their original family reasons, the discomfort of new environment groups, social tension, social anxiety, social fear, etc. If you cannot find a solution for a long time, you will have a mental state of self-abandonment.
also has problems such as group isolation and campus cold violence caused by conceit. People who are isolated can easily find social transportation channels on the Internet and off campus, and are easily trapped in psychological PUA and many scams.
Some college students also have weak psychological qualities, are prone to give up and be depressed when encountering difficulties, are not easy to accept academic and work tasks and challenges, and are prone to obedience and unemployment.
There are also many college students who do not heal in time due to emotional harm, resulting in campus violence, sexual harm, self-abuse and abuse of him.
There are also some college students with problems in their value orientation. In order to pursue attention and social popularity, some more extraordinary events have been made. Some college students have problems such as emotional outflow caused by emotional suppression during adolescence, causing emotional outages, irritability, and cognitive paranoidness during college.
Of course, the most common extreme events for us are college students' depression, suicide, murder, etc. Once such events occur, they will be irreversible loss of life.
Question: What are the effective ways to improve psychological quality for college students?
Answer: First of all, it is recommended that college students popularize psychological knowledge and pay attention to their own mental health. Many people think that focusing on mental health means being unhealthy, which is very wrong. Mental health and physical health also require attention and care. Only by learning psychological knowledge, understanding psychological indicators, and focusing on awareness and self-reminding the important psychological matters can we get timely help when there is a problem with your psychological situation.
Secondly, society and colleges and universities should pay more attention to the psychological development of college students. University is a very psychologically sensitive and special age stage. There are needs and orientations for emotional development, but no mature mind can cope with the situations encountered in emotional development. All emotions and psychology are still in the exploration stage. During the exploration stage, many psychological cognitive biases will occur. We must make popular propaganda based on the problems that college students will encounter at different ages and make correct psychological construction for them in advance.
Furthermore, it is necessary to strengthen the education and training of college students' psychological quality, psychological quality, psychological state, and emotional relationships. Establish a correct view of the three views and life ambitions, train students' social adaptability and social ability through open social and information identification, and strengthen psychological related training to give students stage challenges to complete the smooth transition from university to society.
The most important thing is that it cannot be one-size-fits-all, blocking students' external social and relationship construction, and using a single method such as "escape, rejection" to delay the training of students' psychological quality. Otherwise, students' own psychological problems will still explode due to changes in the environment. Psychological quality is definitely not "not facing it today and not appearing in the future", it is an unavoidable responsibility.
Question: What kind of support does college students hope to receive for psychological quality training?
Answer: The national level has issued relevant policies for years, focusing on the mental health of adolescents. When the representative of the National People's Congress put forward the "Suggestions on the Establishment of Compulsory Courses in Family Tutoring and Family Style in Colleges and Universities", the Ministry of Education responded to the No. 7074 recommendation of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress, encouraging colleges and universities to strengthen love psychology education.In his reply, the Ministry of Education stated that it would encourage colleges and universities to strengthen psychological education in love and family ethics education, improve students' expression, communication and communication skills, and guide students to establish a correct view of love, marriage and love, family, etc.
Society should encourage more public welfare volunteer positions and give college students opportunities for practical training.
Colleges and universities should strengthen students' psychological attention, and students' annual psychological quality assessment, student psychological public welfare courses, etc., and should also establish multi-modal learning of teachers' psychological knowledge and psychological emergency response simulation training to improve the psychological environment in all aspects.
Establish a third-party psychological quality training cooperation matter and complete scientific and effective psychological training .
Question: What are your messages for the development of college students' psychological quality?
Answer: College students are special groups, and they can become talents and can also cause harm to society. Strengthening psychological quality training is to protect talents for the country and build one less prison. It is to be a happy family and achieve a beautiful life. Protecting the psychological quality of college students is to build a good family psychological environment for the next generation. I also hope that more professional psychological counselors and psychological training institutions will make great contributions, contribute their scientific and professional strength, and add motivation to college students.
