Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.245
CURRICULUM DESIGN AND TEACHING THEORY OF MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Abstract
In modern education, colleges and universities should teach students in accordance of their aptitude, in the light of their mental health. This paper empirically analyzes the demographic features and mental health status of college students, and their recognition of the mental health education system, and discusses how to optimize mental health education curriculum and construct the theoretical basis of mental health education system. The research data were collected through a questionnaire survey. The result show that it is possible to identify the problems with the mental health education system through analyzing the demographic features and mental health status of college students; the merits and defects of the system can be tested by assessing the students’ cognition, internalization and comprehensive quality; the curriculum design of mental health must fully consider the theory of positive psychology. The research results provide a good reference for the curriculum design and teaching theory of mental health education in colleges and universities.
Keywords
Curriculum Design, mental health, teaching theory, colleges and universities.