Evaluation of the Effect of Mental Health Education on Improving Adolescents’ Social Adaptability
Table 1
Brief scheme of mental health education.
Dimension
Subdimension
Time
Teaching methods
Expectation
Self-adaptive ability
Hope
Week 1
CI+ITS
Promote or improve participants’ life ideals and sense of faith in the face of difficulties
Optimism
Week 2
CI+ITS+ST
Promote or improve the participants’ motivation and mentality when dealing with things
Enthusiasm
Week 3
SS+ITS+ST
Promote or improve participants’ initiative and enthusiasm in interpersonal communication
Interpersonal adaptability
Cognition
Week 4
CI+ITS+ST
Enable participants to understand or master the understanding and discrimination methods of social reality
Expression
Week 5
SS+SD+ITS+ST
Enable participants to understand or master some expression skills in different social situations
Communication
Week 6
CI+SD+ST
Enable participants to understand or master some chatting skills
Behavioral adaptability
Self-confidence
Week 7
CI+ITS+ST
Increase or improve participants’ satisfaction with themselves and their confidence in doing things
Motivation
Week 8
CI+SS+ITS+ST
Promote or improve participants’ enthusiasm and initiative when doing things or solving problems
Resilience
Week 9
CI+SS+ST
Enhance or improve the resilience of participants in the face of difficulties and failures, so that participants can master some confidence-boosting skills
Environmental adaptability
Family adaptability
Week 10
CI+SS+ST
Enhance or improve participants’ cognition and understanding of family and parents and enable participants to master some skills to deal with family conflicts
School adaptability
Week 11
CI+SS+ST
Enhance or improve participants’ cognition and understanding of the school, teachers, and classmates and enable participants to master some skills to deal with campus conflicts
Society adaptability
Week 12
CI+SS+SD+ST
Enhance or improve participants’ cognition and understanding of society, so that participants can master some skills to avoid social risks
Comprehensive exercise
Week 13
SS+IST
Let the participants fully demonstrate the learned skills in the scenario simulation or discussion
