Freshmen are undoubtedly excited when they step into the university campus they dream of. However, facing the huge university campus, unfamiliar teachers, students and staff, and complicated teaching building names, freshmen feel somewhat confused. Recently, at the parents' Forum of freshmen held in Xihua University, the mental health problems of freshmen were put on the table.
Freshmen leave their familiar hometown and parents, in a short time to quickly adapt to university life, the psychological quality of freshmen is also a test and exercise. "My child is quite homesick, which is hard to adapt to the new environment, but I still hope that he can be independent. After all, I can't accompany him all his life.", "the child has been looking forward to this day, thinking that he can get rid of my nagging.", "my child has been living in school since junior high school, so there should be no problem in terms of adaptation." at the parents' forum, parents of freshmen introduced one after another He introduced the situation of his children. Experts and teachers from the school's mental health service and Research Center introduce to parents the psychological problems that freshmen may encounter after they enter the school, the common methods of parent-child communication, and put forward some suggestions.
According to Wang Huiying, a teacher at the mental health service and research center of Xihua University, statistics show that about 90% of freshmen will have psychological maladjustment to varying degrees in the short term after entering the University. It is normal for freshmen to have a sense of maladjustment. In addition, the psychological problems of college students are inevitably related to their families. In college, there is no doubt about the influence of parents on their children. The principle of dealing with college students' psychological problems is that 'prevention' is more important than 'treatment'. Parents should know more about the development of students and communicate more effectively with their children. If they find that their children have psychological problems, they should deal with them in time and can't ignore them.
After the freshmen enter the school, the school will hold a series of lectures on Freshmen's adaptation and career planning for more than 9000 freshmen in the whole school, and provide group psychological counseling for some freshmen. For the first time, the school will adopt the online evaluation method to conduct a general psychological test for freshmen, and feed back the general test situation to each college.
It is reported that Xihua University has long adopted the way of home school cooperation to promote students' mental health development. The school has established a family school communication platform, and established students' mental health and family education archives. Students' counselors and teachers will take the initiative to contact with students' parents, exchange students' school situation and possible psychological problems, and work with students' parents to help students solve mental health problems. Students' parents can also communicate with the school's professional psychological counseling teachers through the mailbox provided by the mental health service and research center. Teachers will give guidance to parents, and contact with students' counselors and class teachers to focus on students' growth. Students can also take the initiative to solve mental health problems and relieve tension through individual counseling, group counseling, career assessment and other mental health services provided by the research center.