CWU Hosts Lecture about College Students' Mental Health

Li Yan gives a lecture about narrative therapy at China Women's University on May 4. [China Women's University]

A psychological expert from the Mental Health Development Center at Tsinghua University opened a lecture about the importance of narrative therapy to personal growth at China Women's University (CWU) on May 4.

According to organizers, CWU aimed to create a platform for universities located in the eastern regions of Beijing to hold closer cooperation and more exchanges on college students' mental health, and to enlarge the influence of its work on this point.

Li Yan, who is also a member of the Advisory Committee of Mental Health Education for College Students in the Ministry of Education, explained to attendees about the nature of narrative therapy and applicable measures to gain resonance for those concerned and boost their awareness of self-recognition.

Meanwhile, she also guided participants to hold talks over the relations between self-recognition and mainstream culture as well as social values, and to deepen their understanding of narrative therapy's essence and concepts.

For their part, trainees said that they had benefited a lot from the lecture and gained a fresh perspective to make an analysis of college students' mental health, adding that they were likely to further strengthen inter-university professional exchanges in the following training classes.

Those present at the gathering included psychological workers and college students from the CWU, University of International Business and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, China Foreign Affairs University, and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

Attendees at the gathering [China Women's University]

Participants pose for a photo. [China Women's University]

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)