What are the roles of group psychological counseling in promoting the mental health development of college students?

Group psychological counseling plays an important role in the mental health education of college students. It enriches the ways of mental health education in colleges and universities, and can benefit college students collectively, share life experiences together, and improve their understanding of themselves. Accept and promote the healthy growth of individual college students. Group psychological counseling has strong appeal and wide influence. It can be easily consolidated and transferred through practice, experience, and reflection. It can not only realize the role of individual psychological counseling, but also has advantages that traditional mental health approaches cannot match. In the process of solving the psychological distress of college students, unleashing personal potential, and enhancing adaptability, group psychological counseling is more effective than traditional individual counseling. (1) Group psychological counseling serves campus harmony, benefiting all students; (2) Group psychological counseling enables multi-directional communication, allowing students to share together; (3) Group psychological counseling promotes students' migration experience through simulated life; (4) Group psychological counseling provides social support and helps students accept themselves.