Recently, the “Adolescent Mental Health Map” released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention once again sounded the alarm on adolescent mental health issues. The data shows that among nearly 100,000 respondents aged 13 to 18, as high as 14.4% of adolescents feel a low sense of happiness, a ratio that is concerning. The “Chinese National Mental Health Development Report (2019-2020)” has revealed a grim reality: among adolescents under 18 in our country, the proportion of depression patients is as high as 30.28%, and with increasing age, the rate of depression detection significantly rises, reaching 40% during high school. These series of data not only reflect the prevalence of current adolescent mental health issues but also highlight the urgency and importance of conducting mental stress analysis during secondary school.
1. Root Causes and Current Situation of the Issue
Adolescence is a critical period for psychological development, marked by academic pressure, parental expectations, and social competition among various factors. Particularly, the high expectations parents place on their children, especially the excessive pursuit of academic achievement, often exceed the actual abilities of the children, leading them to bear significant psychological pressure. This phenomenon is especially pronounced in regions with intense competition for educational resources.
2. Importance of Mental Stress Analysis
Early Warning and Prevention: Conducting mental stress analysis can timely identify students’ potential psychological issues, providing a scientific basis for early intervention. Through regular psychological assessments, schools can establish students’ psychological health records, focus on and track students at risk of psychological problems, effectively preventing the deterioration of psychological issues.
Optimizing Educational Effects: Mental health education is a vital component of quality education. Mental stress analysis helps schools understand students’ psychological needs, adjust educational strategies, provide more personalized psychological support, thereby optimizing overall educational effects and promoting students’ comprehensive development.
Enhancing Self-awareness: Through mental stress analysis, students can gain a clearer understanding of their psychological state, enhancing self-awareness. This helps them learn self-regulation, actively cope with stress, and cultivate healthy psychological qualities.
Promoting Home-School Cooperation: The results of mental stress analysis can serve as a significant bridge for home-school communication. Schools can provide assessment results to parents, jointly pay attention to children’s mental health, fostering a good atmosphere of home-school cooperation.
3. Implementation Strategies and Methods
Multi-Modal Mental Stress Analysis System: Utilizing integrated comprehensive scales, electroencephalogram analysis, heart rate variability assessment, and other technological means to conduct comprehensive and systematic psychological assessments of students. This multi-modal analysis approach enables a more accurate evaluation of students’ stress levels, autonomic nervous system, and peripheral vascular status, providing a basis for developing personalized intervention plans.
Campus Mental Health Evaluation Room: Establishing a campus mental health evaluation room, using the “smart management workstation” to conduct collective initial screening of students’ mental health conditions. Through efficient and convenient evaluation methods, improving assessment efficiency and coverage to ensure that each student receives timely mental health attention.
Establishing Psychological Records: Based on periodic mental stress analysis results, establish psychological records at school, grade, class, and individual student levels. These records not only document students’ psychological development status but also provide valuable reference data for school psychological counseling and intervention.
In conclusion, conducting mental stress analysis during secondary school is a crucial measure to safeguard adolescent mental health and promote their comprehensive development. Through scientific, systematic psychological assessment and intervention measures, we can create a healthier, harmonious growth environment for adolescents.
