CWU Holds Mental Training for Teachers

China Women's University (CWU) held a training course for teachers on April 14 in order to improve teaching staff's professional skills and psychological adjustment ability.

Some 30 secretaries and deputy secretaries of General Party Branches and counselors participated in the event, which was presided over by Han Yan, director of CWU's Student Affairs Office.

The school leaders attached great importance to the psychological training. CWU president Liu Liqun and deputy secretary of the Party Committee Liu Qinghua communicated with Qu Yun, a guest speaker from Beijing Positive Psychology Treatment Center. They discussed how to interfere in student affairs according to the psychological characteristics of the students born after 1995 and how to adjust teaching staff's mental problems.

During the lecture, Qu shared her experiences in diagnosing and treating psychological problems and introduced people's emotions from the perspective of physiology, psychology, social circumstances and mental situation.

People's subjective evaluation on life events determines their emotions, as well as people's cognitive system which is gradually formed through environmental interaction and has an important impact on people's mental health, Qu said. 

It's inevitable for a counselor to treat students according to his own emotional memory and cognitive system. As a consequence, it's important to study the root causes of students' psychological problems and take steps to help them, Qu added.

During the discussion, Qu answered students' questions and suggested experts supervising students' mental problems focus on students' needs and carry out targeted counseling.

The lecture is one of the series of psychological training for teachers, which leads teaching staff to treat students' problems in the process of growth from the perspective of psychology, carry out ideological and political education work with the theories, methods and techniques of psychology and improve the efficiency of ideological education.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and Edited by Gender Study Network)