College psychological counseling survey: there are unwilling to ask for help, but also can not queue

recent time, there have been a number of incidents of college students light students on the hot search list. In lamenting these sudden youths, many wondered whether they had ever been to the school's counseling room for help on the verge of collapse. And how can the psychological counseling of colleges and universities provide more effective help to students? In recent days, the reporter went deep into the school and interviewed some students and related experts.Yuan Meng in the study of the second time often "emotional ups and downs are very large, motionless on the fire, a little thing on the cry", the result went to the hospital to check out suffering from severe depression. Although the doctor did a lot of medicine, she "didn't take any of it because she was dependent on it." Yuan Meng says she is mainly on her own.
like Yuan Meng's "on their own" situation is not in the minority. In May, the media launched a small survey on social networks called "How to relieve stress when you feel stressed", in which 23,000 people took part in the two-day survey, of whom 11,000 chose "hard support, normal life" and only 543 chose "to turn to professional institutions". Yuan Meng said: "Antidepressant is a person's alone struggle, no one can help, do not add chaos is very good."
Zhang Chi, deputy director of the Center for Psychological Quality Education at Beijing Jiao university and a popular science expert of the China Mental Health Association, concluded that one of the main symptoms of depression patients is self-denial, self-evaluation, feeling that they are the loneliest and worst, with a feeling of powerlessness and helplessness. Zhang Chi had consulted such a student, he basically do not interact with others, closed in the self-world. In the face of such a situation, Zhang Chi believes that students can not simply be judged for poor resistance to setbacks, which is in fact a manifestation of psychological problems, many times they themselves can not alleviate, need to turn to professional institutions.
, director of qingdao University's Center for Mental Health Education and Research, gives the "prescription" for fighting depression: open personality, to learn to seek help, learn to talk. "The help of consultants, psychiatrists, and family members is important, and the social support system as a whole is very important. If you rely on one person alone, the effect is certainly not obvious. Because of their own patient's self-awareness on the problem, without the help of others, recovery is relatively slow. Reporters
found that in the face of the school's psychological counseling center, many students worry that their psychological problems will be told the school, and then told parents. In a college campus forum, some students asked: after psychological counseling, will not inform counselors and tutors that the student has psychological problems. Another student replied: "Tell the truth, don't expect confidentiality, personal experience." Because of this problem, I have been hit quite hard. But counseling can still be done, just to see if you want to restore mental health, or pay more attention to privacy.
The Code of Ethics for Clinical and Consulting Psychology of the Chinese Psychological Association, prepared in 2007, clearly states that consultants should have a clear understanding of the application and limits of the principle of confidentiality, and that consultants have an early warning responsibility as an exception to the principle of confidentiality when visitors are at serious risk of harming themselves or others. Mi Zhenhong also confirmed this: "Before consulting, students should sign an informed consent, the most important of which is the principle of confidentiality, which is the professional ethics of psychological counseling." But there are three confidential exceptions, which must be made known to students. The first is self-injury suicide, the second is the need to refer to a psychiatrist, and the third is a violation of the law. "'ve never realized that there are so many people with mental illness and mental illness, " said White Deer, a so-44 student who interned for two months at the school's counseling center. We get calls from visitors every day because there are so many visitors that we can't respond in time to when he will be in line. "In fact, White Deer's psychological counseling center at the school has 20 psychological consultants on duty in turn, five or six people a day, are full. Students who come to make an appointment for counseling, "probably two weeks in a row."
Mi Zhenhong compared the data of the psychological test of freshmen in the last 5 years and found that the number of students screened for depression increased year by year, and the number of consultations in a school year tripled from more than 500 to about 1600. Zhang Chi believes that the number of psychological counseling appointments is increasing, on the one hand, the incidence rate has increased, on the other hand, through popular science and other work to make students and the community awareness rate is high. "Sickness" decreased, willing to actively seek help, to achieve cognitive change.
According to UNICEF and the World Health Organization, about 20 per cent of the world's 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10 to 19 currently have mental health problems, and about 16 per cent of the diseases and injuries suffered by the 10 to 19 year olds are caused by mental health problems. The data show that the suicide rate among U.S. college students is 7 out of 100,000, in Japan it is 14 out of 100,000, and in China it is one in 100,000 to 3, Mr. Mi said. Zhang Chi said: "China's colleges and universities in addition to psychological counseling center will do science, lectures, training, counselors will also take the initiative to help students, active care, this mechanism can play a role in prevention and protection." Psychological problems are early detection, early assessment, early treatment.
Recently, the National Health and Safety Commission issued the "Exploring the Special Services for the Prevention and Control of Depression", which calls for greater intervention in key groups such as adolescents, and various high schools and colleges to include depression screening in students' health check-ups, establish students' mental health files, assess students' mental health status, and give priority to students with abnormal assessment results. According to Mi Zhenhong, depression screening is necessary, "like some depression is difficult to determine by observation, so it is important to rely on depression scale screening." But the scale alone can not, but also through the consultant one-on-one interview, excluding false positive. Some students have high scores on the scale, but there is no problem in fact. "
" there are two issues to pay attention to, Zhang Chi said, "first, the school has no qualifications to carry out depression screening, in the premise of protecting students, how to do a good job of screening services also need specific implementation measures; Duringyear's outbreak, Qingdao University's psychological counseling team took turns on 24-hour online watch. One night, a classmate left a message that the family does not care about themselves, every night insomnia, feel that life is meaningless, "it is better to die early", the same day the consultant saw immediately after contact with the student, crisis intervention, and continue to follow up, for the students to solve happy knots. Later, the student left another message saying, "This is the first time in my life to discuss my pain with others, I feel a beam of light into my inner black, thank the teacher." "
life may be accompanied by trauma, sharing and companionship, will make people feel warm, but also let people gain strength." When students are troubled, it is necessary to have a place to ask for help. The
Work Programme for Exploring Special Services for the Prevention and Control of Depression also requires that psychological counselling (counseling) rooms and mental health education courses be set up in secondary schools and colleges of higher learning, with mental health education teachers. Mental health education should be a compulsory course for all students in middle schools and colleges and universities, and professionals should be hired to teach every semester to guide students in their scientific understanding of depression and to seek professional help in a timely manner.
" attention to students' mental health, not just psychological counseling centers, need to form a joint force. There are at least three levels of network systems, from psychological centers to
to class psychology. In addition to keeping in touch with colleges, psychological centers are also closely linked to the various departments of the school, and even building management needs to know how to get along with students and protect their health and safety. This is actually a full-time model of education. Zhang Chi admits.
, the combination of medical education will be a model for better coping with students' mental health in the future. Early intervention is achieved in the form of "medical plus education", in which schools and hospitals are discussed according to the individual circumstances of the students, schools provide educational assistance and counselling, and hospitals provide medical resources and treatment. "Families, schools, society, the education system and the medical system, psychological counseling and professional treatment, form a linkage model, in order to meet the mental health needs of students, reduce the occurrence of tragedies, and help the construction of the entire psychosocial service system."
(some of the respondents in this article are names)