Guidelines for the Construction of Psychological Counseling Rooms in Primary and Secondary Schools

Guidelines for the Construction of Psychological Counseling Rooms in Primary and Secondary Schools

Guidelines for the Construction of Psychological Counseling Rooms in Primary and Secondary Schools are applicable to the construction, standardization, management, supervision and evaluation of psychological counseling rooms in primary and secondary schools across the country.

1. Construction Goals

The construction of the psychological counseling room should adhere to the principle of cultivating moral character and promoting the healthy development of students. The configuration of software and hardware facilities in the psychological counseling room should follow the physical and mental development of primary and secondary school students. The characteristics and laws of mental health education focus on providing psychological counseling and mental health services. By providing students with developmental psychological counseling and psychological support, we improve the psychological quality of all students, cultivate their positive, optimistic, healthy and progressive psychological qualities, promote the harmonious and sustainable development of students' body and mind, and effectively adapt to school life and social life. Lay a solid foundation for their happy learning, healthy growth and happy life.

2. Functional Positioning

The psychological counseling room is where mental health education teachers provide individual counseling and group counseling to help students solve problems in study, life, self-awareness, emotional adjustment, and interpersonal communication. It is an important place for schools to carry out mental health education work. Its main functions are:

1. Carry out group psychological counseling. Pay attention to the mental health level of all students, improve the psychological quality of all students, and carry out mental health education activities and group psychological counseling activities for all students.

2. Provide individual psychological counseling. Provide effective individual counseling and targeted psychological support to students with psychological distress or psychological problems; or promptly refer them to relevant professional psychological counseling institutions or psychological diagnosis and treatment departments according to the situation, and ensure collaborative cooperation and return to health care and follow-up psychological support work.

3. Monitor mental health status. Understand and monitor the mental health status, characteristics and development trends of all teachers and students, discover problems in a timely manner, effectively monitor, prevent and respond to various emergencies, and reduce the negative impact of crisis events on teachers and students.

4. Create a mentally healthy environment. Provide psychological counseling and psychological support to faculty and staff in need to improve their mental health and create a positive, healthy and harmonious educational environment. Organize mental health education and publicity activities to help parents understand and master the characteristics, patterns and educational methods of their children's growth, and assist parents in jointly solving psychological and behavioral problems during their children's development. Use school mental health education resources to serve the community and give full play to the radiating role of school mental health education.

3. Basic settings

The construction of psychological counseling rooms should adhere to scientific and practical principles, ensure basic configuration, and meet the scientific and effective development of mental health education. Where conditions permit, it can be combined with actual conditions , expand the functional areas and related configurations of the psychological counseling room.

1. Location selection. The psychological counseling room should be built in a relatively quiet and convenient place, and try to avoid busy and noisy areas. The floor should not be too high.

2. Environmental requirements. The environmental layout of the psychological counseling room should fully consider the particularity of mental health education and the physical and mental development characteristics of adolescents, reflect humanized design and humanistic care, and be full of vitality. The psychological counseling room can choose a name that is friendly, vivid, close to the students' psychology, and easy for students to accept. Relaxed welcome signs can be posted outdoors with concise and eye-catching icons. The internal environment should be warm, clean, and comfortable, with fresh, elegant, and soft warm tones as the main colors, with reasonable use of colors, lights, and decorations, moderate light, and reasonable natural light and light intensity. Individual tutoring rooms must fully protect students' privacy requirements.

3. Basic configuration. The psychological counseling room should be equipped with basic functional areas such as individual counseling rooms, group activity rooms, and office reception areas. Schools with conditions can also set up separate mental health education expansion areas such as psychological measurement areas, relaxation rooms, and independent self-help activity areas. The usable area of ??the psychological counseling room must match the number of students on campus.

The school can combine the actual needs of mental health education work with other places in the school to build and share. Without affecting the basic functions of the psychological counseling functional areas, the functional areas of the psychological counseling room can also be compatible with each other. There should be a psychological mailbox outside the psychological counseling room.

Basic configuration of the area. The area of ??individual counseling rooms is required to be 10-15 square meters/each basic facility is equipped with consulting chairs or sofas. The teacher consulting chairs or sofas are arranged at 90 degrees or 60 degrees with the student consulting chairs or sofas. put. Relaxing music, mental health knowledge wall charts, recording equipment, etc. can be equipped according to conditions. The area of ??the group activity room is required to be more than 20 square meters/each basic facility is equipped with movable tables, chairs, seat cushions, and multimedia equipment. Group psychological counseling boxes, game psychological counseling packages, etc. can be equipped according to conditions. The office reception area requires an area of ??more than 15 square meters and the basic facilities are equipped with computers, printers, telephones, filing cabinets, journal racks, psychological books, etc. Other expansion areas (constructed according to needs and conditions) are equipped with tools such as student psychological assessment systems and mental health self-help systems, sand table and painting auxiliary tutoring equipment, relaxation and self-help equipment, etc.

4. Management specifications

1. Opening hours. The psychological counseling room is open to students regularly, and the specific opening hours can be determined based on the number of students and the actual situation of the school's mental health education. In principle, it should be open to students every day while students are in school. It should be open to students for a certain period of time during non-class times such as between classes and after classes, and dedicated personnel should be arranged to be on duty.

2. Staffing. The psychological counseling room should be equipped with at least one full-time or part-time mental health education teacher, and the ratio of full-time personnel should be gradually increased. In principle, full-time and part-time teachers must have a bachelor's degree in psychology or related majors, obtain relevant qualification certificates, undergo pre-job training, possess the basic theory, professional knowledge and operational skills of psychological counseling, and receive a certain amount of professional training on a regular basis. Mental health education teachers enjoy the same treatment as head teachers.

3. Funding investment. Schools should set up special funds for mental health education and include them in the annual budget to ensure the normal work of the psychological counseling room. The psychological counseling room should provide free psychological counseling to teachers, students, and parents of the school.

4. Growth record. The psychological counseling room should establish growth information records for students. Generally, it includes the student’s basic situation, family situation, psychological condition, counseling records, etc. Counseling records generally include the student's current psychological status, the main problems of counseling, and the assessment and identification of the problems, as well as corresponding analysis, countermeasures, and evaluation of counseling effects. Student growth information records, assessment materials, letters, audio and video recordings and other materials should be kept strictly confidential. The psychological counseling room should carry out targeted group psychological counseling or individual psychological counseling based on student growth information records.

5. Counseling ethics. Mental health education teachers should adhere to the principle of educating people and strive to improve the psychological quality of all students; when students have value deviations, they should break through "value neutrality" and help students establish a correct world view, outlook on life and values; be strict in the counseling process Follow the principle of confidentiality and protect student privacy. However, when students may engage in extreme behaviors such as self-injury or injury to others, the confidentiality principle should be broken, the class teacher and his guardian should be informed promptly, and recorded; use psychological assessment scales or other testing methods with caution , and is conducted on the basis of informed consent of students and their guardians. It is prohibited to force students to undergo psychological tests, to label students with "mental illness" labels, and to use any equipment that may harm students' physical and mental health.

6. Crisis intervention. Psychological counseling rooms should establish a psychological crisis intervention mechanism. Clarify the psychological crisis intervention work process, so that when crisis events occur, they can be detected promptly and handled appropriately, and appropriate psychological intervention can be provided to teachers and students to prevent the occurrence of extreme events such as self-injury and other injuries caused by psychological crises.

7. Make timely referrals. The psychological counseling room should establish smooth and fast referral channels with relevant psychological diagnosis and treatment departments, so that individual students with serious mental illnesses or other situations that require referral can be identified and promptly referred to relevant psychological diagnosis and treatment departments. The referral process is well documented and a tracking and feedback system is established.

8. Strengthen research. The psychological counseling room should regularly organize teaching and research activities, discuss typical cases, organize and participate in expert supervision, regularly conduct mental health surveys and mental health surveys, and continuously improve the scientific nature and effectiveness of psychological counseling. ;