College English teaching integrating mental health education on alleviating students’ mental disorders

Background Mental health education is an essential part of China’s current education industry. Its main task is to provide psychological education to students through scientific means, effectively improve their psychological quality, and thereby enhance their comprehensive abilities. In college Engl...

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Published inCNS spectrums Vol. 28; no. S2; p. S56
Main Author Du, Yanhong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.10.2023
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Health education
Mental disorders
Mental health
Students
Teaching methods
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Summary:Background Mental health education is an essential part of China’s current education industry. Its main task is to provide psychological education to students through scientific means, effectively improve their psychological quality, and thereby enhance their comprehensive abilities. In college English teaching, English education is also significant teaching content. Therefore, this study aims to integrate mental health education into college English teaching to improve students’ psychological barriers. Subjects and Methods The study takes a class of students from a particular university as an example, combining English teaching with mental health education, and the experimental period is one semester. After the experiment, the student’s English learning situation was evaluated based on their exam scores, and the experimental data was analyzed using the software SPSS23.0. Results The experimental results show that the English teaching method integrating mental health education has a good effect on improving students’ psychological barriers. According to the final English exam results, 53% of students in the class have achieved varying degrees of improvement in English grades. At the same time, the questionnaire survey results show that psychological barriers have been alleviated, and their psychological quality has been improved. Conclusions The English teaching method that integrates mental health education has a good effect on alleviating students’ psychological barriers. At the same time, the interest in English education among students has been enhanced, improving English grades.
ISSN:1092-8529
2165-6509
DOI:10.1017/S1092852923003929