Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.50
APPLICATION OF ART APPRECIATION PROCESS IN MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
Abstract
More and more Chinese colleges have opened courses on mental health, aiming to ensure that their students are well-developed both in mind and body. In view of the existing problems with college mental health courses, this paper aims to verify whether the national psychological drama can improve the mental health of college students. Firstly, the authors analyzed the process and mechanism of national psychological drama, and discussed the influence mechanism of national psychological drama on mental health. Next, a number of subjects were selected to watch a famous national psychological drama, and their mental health conditions were evaluated against the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). The results show that the national psychological drama, as an art appreciation process, has a positive influence on the mental health of college students, and makes up for the defects of traditional and modern psychological dramas in mental health education. The research findings opened up a new path for mental health education in colleges.
Keywords
Art Appreciation, Mental Health, National Psychological Drama.