Mindfulness training in medical education as a means to improve resilience,empathy,and mental health in the medical profession

The high rates of depression,burnout,and increased risk of suicide among medical students,residents,and physicians in comparison with other careers signal a mental health crisis within our profession.We contend that this crisis coupled with the inadequate acquisition of interpersonal skills during medical education results from the interaction between a challenging environment and the mental capital of individuals.Additionally,we posit that mindfulness-based practices are instrumental for the development of major components of mental capital,such as resilience,flexibility of mind,and learning skills,while also serving as a pathway to enhance empathy,compassion,self-awareness,conflict resolution,and relational abilities.Importantly,the evidence base supporting the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions has been increasing over the years,and a growing number of medical schools have already integrated mindfulness into their curricula.While we acknowledge that mindfulness is not a panacea for all educational and mental health problems in this field,we argue that there is currently an unprecedented opportunity to gather momentum,spread and study mindfulness-based programs in medical schools around the world as a way to address some longstanding shortcomings of the medical profession and the health and educational systems upon which it is rooted.

Exploring the Significance and Implementation Strategies of Mental Health Education for College Students

College students are influenced by diverse cultures in the new era,thus their inner world is rich and changing rapidly.The acceleration of social rhythm can easily lead to different kinds of psychological problems.Mental health education is people-oriented,using scientific methods and means to train high-quality talents with all-round development across the world.A healthy psychological state can promote the sound development of students,make them establish correct core social values,and realize self-value.At present,there are some problems in university mental health education,such as single form and imperfect system.At the same time,college education plays an important role in the formation of ideas for college students’ideological values.As a front-line student worker,college counselors should cooperate with the school’s psychological departments to improve the college psychological education system,rationally plan the psychological teaching program,and pay attention to the college students’mental health education.The government should also take into account the need to ensure that the education system is not undermined by the lack of a comprehensive and effective education system.

Opportunities and Challenges of College Mental Health Education from the Perspective of Big Data

This paper explores the opportunities and challenges of college mental health education from the perspective of big data.Firstly,through literature review,the importance of mental health education and the current issues are elucidated.Then,from the perspective of big data,the potential opportunities of big data in college mental health education are analyzed,including data-driven personalized education,real-time monitoring and warning systems,and interdisciplinary research and collaboration.At the same time,the challenges faced by college mental health education under the perspective of big data are also pointed out,such as data privacy and security issues,insufficient data analysis and interpretation capabilities,and inadequate technical facilities and talent support.Lastly,the research content of this paper is summarized,and directions and suggestions for future research are proposed.

Research on the Dilemma and Path of Mental Health Education for College Students from the Perspective of Home-School Cooperation

With the development of society and the advancement of education,the state has increasingly emphasized the importance of mental health education for college students.Mental health education for college students serves as an effective vehicle for psychological education in universities,with family and school education being the two critical fronts.To ensure the smooth implementation of mental health education for college students,it is imperative for schools and families to collaborate and cooperate closely,thus effectively promoting the healthy growth and comprehensive development of students.Given the current challenges such as inadequate awareness of home-school cooperative education,lack of mechanisms for home-school cooperation,and a singular platform for home-school cooperation,we need to comprehensively improve the overall quality of mental health education by unifying the ideology of home-school cooperative education,establishing a sound mechanism for home-school cooperation,innovating the platform for home-school cooperation,and enriching the content of home-school cooperation.

The Basic Principles of School Mental Health Education

School mental health education involves educators consciously,purposefully,and systematically influencing students’psychology using psychological educational methods and means based on the physical and mental development characteristics of students.The objective is to enhance students’psychological quality,develop their potential,cultivate optimistic and positive psychological traits,and promote the holistic development of their personalities.School mental health education is an integral component of quality education,a crucial element in cultivating high-quality talents for the 21st century,and a symbol of modern schools.

Research on the Strategies for Integrating Mental Health Education into Art Education

This article aims to explore strategies for integrating mental health education into art education to address students’mental health issues and enhance their emotional intelligence and creative thinking skills.It identifies the current problems in teaching,including a lack of comprehensive methods,insufficient teacher training,and inadequate assessment and feedback.Based on these issues,strategies for curriculum design,teacher training and support,and student engagement and feedback are proposed.These strategies are expected to promote the effective integration of art education and mental health education,providing support for the comprehensive development of students.

Compliance to Medication Management and Mental Health Status of Elderly Hypertensive Patients: Basis of Educational Health Program

Objective:The study aimed to assess medication management compliance and mental health in elderly patients with hypertension.Method:The study evaluated medication compliance and mental health status of elderly hypertensive patients in China using simple random sampling.Data was collected using the Morisky Medication Compliance Questionnaire,Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale,and a checklist.Ethical practices were strictly observed.Results:A study of 100 elderly hypertensive patients found poor drug management compliance,with female patients showing worse compliance.Female patients were more vulnerable to anxiety and depression.The study also found no significant association between gender,age,education level,marital status,living standards,and medication compliance.Barriers to medication management included food and daily necessities,lack of awareness about the importance of drug treatment,and basic family needs.The lowest-ranked barriers were lack of support from government health clinics,low income,and lack of family support.Conclusion:Based on the results,the study proposes an educational plan for elderly hypertensive patients and their families,to be evaluated and implemented by the hospital and township community service center.The plan aims to improve medication management and lifestyle modification compliance,encourage active participation,and provide access to medical and mental health clinics,support groups,and counseling services.

Discussion on the Impact of“Shift System”Teaching Model of Physical Education on Students’Mental Health

The“shift system”teaching model of physical education is an emerging education model that aims to improve students’independent choice and personalized development.However,there are also some challenges in the practical application of this model.For example,there are mental health issues for some students including difficulty in adaptation,social interaction,high psychological pressure,etc.Based on this,this article analyzes the impact of the“shift system”teaching model of physical education on students’mental health and explores the optimization path of the physical education“shift system”teaching model in order to promote students’mental health and all-round development.

Parental Educational Expectations,Academic Pressure,and Adolescent Mental Health:An Empirical Study Based on CEPS Survey Data

Background:This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parental educational expectations and adolescent mental health problems,with academic pressure as a moderating variable.Methods:This study was based on the baseline data of the China Education Panel Survey,which was collected within one school year during 2013–2014.It included 19,958 samples from seventh and ninth graders,who ranged from 11 to 18 years old.After removing missing values and conducting relevant data processing,the effective sample size for analysis was 16344.The OLS(Ordinary Least Squares)multiple linear regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between parental educational expectations,academic pressure,and adolescents’mental health problems.In addition,we established an interaction term between parents’educational expectations and academic pressure to investigate the moderating effect of academic stress.Results:The study found that adolescents whose parents had high educational expectations reported less mental health problems.(β=−0.195;p<0.001).Additionally,adolescents who had high academic pressure reported more mental health problems.(β=0.649;p<0.001).Furthermore,the study found that academic pressure had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between parental educational expectations and adolescents’mental health problems(β=0.082;p<0.001).Conclusion:Parental educational expectations had a close relationship with adolescents’mental health problems,and academic pressure moderated this relationship.For those adolescents with high levels of academic pressure,the association between high parental educational expectations and mental health problems became stronger.On the contrary,for those adolescents with low levels of academic pressure,the association between high parental educational expectations and mental health problems became weaker.These findings shed new light on how parental educational expectations affected adolescent mental health problems and had significant implications for their healthy development.

Research on the Application of Psychology in the Ideological and Political Education of Counselors in Higher Vocational Colleges

As an important base for the training of skilled personnel,the ideological and political education of counselors plays a vital role in the process of personnel training in higher vocational colleges.Based on the analysis of the current situation of ideological and political education of counselors in higher vocational colleges,this paper analyzes the application value and strategies of psychology in ideological and political education,aiming at providing a set of systematic psychological application frameworks for counselors in higher vocational colleges,so as to promote the all-round development of students and realize the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people.

Towards Innovative Research Approaches to Investigating the Role of Emotional Variables in Promoting Language Teachers’ and Learners’ Mental Health

The adequacy of language education largely depends on the favorable and unfavorable emotions that teachers and students experience throughout the education process.Simply said,emotional factors play a key role in improving the quality of language teaching and learning.Furthermore,these emotional factors also promote the well-being of language teachers and learners and place them in a suitable mental condition.In view of the favorable impact of emotional factors on the mental health of language teachers and learners,many educational scholars around the world have studied these factors,their background,and their pedagogical consequences.Nonetheless,the majority of previous studies have employed traditional research methods in assessing these variables and their influences on language teachers’and learners’mental health.Because of the complex and dynamic quality of emotional factors,traditional research approaches often fail to evaluate these factors and their dynamic,non-linear connections with teachers’and learners’mental health and well-being.Accordingly,some novel research approaches are required to measure the dynamicity and complexity of emotional factors in language education settings.To address this call,the current state-of-the-art conceptual article seeks to provide new insights for investigating emotional factors and their potential impact on language teachers’and learners’mental states.This study also intends to offer a comprehensive list of emerging methods that take into account the complex and dynamic nature of emotional variables.Finally,the study outlines the potential implications of this review for educational researchers.

Enhanced recovery nursing and mental health education on postoperative recovery and mental health of laparoscopic liver resection

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing laparoscopic resection of liver metastases of colorectal cancer are prone to negative emotions and decrease of digestive function.Early nursing and psychological intervention are necessary.AIM To observe the effect of enhanced recovery nursing combined with mental health education on postoperative recovery and mental health of patients undergoing laparoscopic resection of liver metastases of colorectal cancer.METHODS One hundred and twenty patients who underwent laparoscopic resection of liver metastases of colorectal cancer at our hospital between March 2021 and March 2023,were selected as participants.The patients admitted from March 1,2021 to February 28,2022 were set as the control group,and they were given routine nursing combined with mental health education intervention.While the patients admitted from March 1,2022 to March 31,2023 were set as the observation group,they were given accelerated rehabilitation surgical nursing combined with mental health education intervention.The differences in postoperative recovery-related indices,complications and pain degrees,and mental health-related scores were compared between groups.The T lymphocyte subset levels of the two groups were also compared.RESULTS The postoperative exhaust,defecation,eating and drainage time of the observation group were shorter than those of the control group.The pain scores of the observation group were lower than those of the control group at 6,12,24,48,and 72 h after surgery.The cumulative complication rate of the observation group was lower than that of the control group(P<0.05).The CD4+/CD8+in the observation group was higher than that in the control group 3 d after surgery(P<0.05).After intervention,the self-rating depression scale,self-rating anxiety scale,avoidance dimension,and yielding dimension in Medical coping style(MCMQ)scores of the two groups were lower than those prior to intervention,and the scores in the observation group were lower than those in the control group(P<0.05).The face dimension score in the MCMQ score was higher than that before intervention,and that of the observation group was higher than that of the control group(P<0.05).After intervention,the total scores of the life function index scale(FLIC)and psychological well-being scores of cancer patients in the two groups,and the physical and social well-being scores in the observation group,were higher than those before intervention.The nursing satisfaction of the observation group was higher than that of the control group(P<0.05).The physical,psychological,and social well-being,and the total FLIC scores of the observation group were higher than those in the control group after surgery(P<0.05).CONCLUSION Enhanced recovery nursing combined with mental health education can promote the recovery of gastrointestinal function,improve the mental health and quality of life of patients after laparoscopic resection of colorectal cancer liver metastases,and reduce the incidence of complications.

Application Research of Music Therapy in Mental Health of Special Children

A healthy psychological state is the premise for children to carry out various activities.Previous surveys have shown that children with special needs are affected by their own obstacles and are more prone to psychological problems such as sensitivity,low self-esteem,and impulsiveness.Therefore,it is necessary to provide more sys-tematic mental health education support for special children.Mental health education programs are an efficient form of maintaining children’s mental health.However,in thefield of special education,the number of mental health education courses developed according to the physical and mental characteristics and developmental needs of special children is relatively small,and there are many difficulties in the implementation process.Autism dis-order(ASD)is a kind of pervasive developmental dysfunction that is relatively common and representative in clinical practice.In recent years,the number of autistic children has continued to surge,and has gradually expanded from a family problem to a serious social problem.At present,the evaluation of the effect of autism intervention mainly relies on various behavioral scales,which are subjective to a certain extent.At the same time,due to the unclear pathogenesis of autism,the treatment of autism cannot be predicated on the right medicine,and can only be intervened in various ways.The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between the EEG signals of autistic children and typically developing control(TD)children through the analysis method of EEG signals,and based on the analysis of EEG signals from an objective point of view,to study whether the music therapy method of Chinese Zither playing training can effectively Improving the brain functional status of chil-dren with autism yields positive therapeutic outcomes.The experimental results show that the complexity of brain electrical signals of ASD children is much lower than that of TD children,and there is a significant difference in the brain functional state between the two.The music therapy method based on Chinese zither playing training can improve the brain function of autistic patients,and there is a positive therapeutic effect.And with the exten-sion of the training period,the effect may be more significant.Chinese zither playing training can provide a new direction for the intervention of autism.

Research on the New Mode of college students’mental Health Education under the Network environment

With the rapid development of science andtechnology, internet technology has become matureincreasingly. It has become an important part ofpeople’s work, life and study. At the same time, thenetwork environment has also brought an impact onthe physical and mental health of college students.Nowadays, the quality and level of college students’mental health education has become society topics.College psychological health education work shouldkeep pace with the network environment developmentand the students’ physical and mental development.It is the effective innovation of psychological healtheducation work. The new model of college students’psychological health education development isconstructed. It is improve the level of students’ physicaland mental health development, and the psychologicalquality of college students is strengthen. Based onthis, this paper analyzes the existing problems on thecollege students’ mental health development. Under thenetwork environment, it proposes an effective method toconstruct a new mode of college students’ mental healtheducation .

The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Simulation in Health Professions Education Relating to Mental Illness: A Literature Review

The proliferation of Virtual Reality-based tools has led to its increased usage in the field of education over the last decades owing to its increasingly realistic simulation and greater control over the 3D simulated environment. The unique features of Virtual Reality (VR) simulation can provide learners with a hazard-free simulated environment allowing limitless failure attempts. Yet, good quality research to verify the effectiveness of VR simulation in training students of the health profession is still lacking. This literature review focuses on the effectiveness of virtual reality-based simulation in enhancing health profession students’ empathetic attitude relating to mental illness. Four databases were searched from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2018. Of 1034 articles identified eligible in the databases, a total of 6 articles have met the criteria for inclusion in this review. Findings suggested that there is a clear relationship between VR simulation and an improvement on users’ empathy, attitudes, and knowledge relating to mental Illness. With the unique characteristic of experiential learning of VR simulation, there is a potential development of the VR simulation on empathy and attitude in healthcare education. Also, VR stimulation is found having a larger impact on the users’ empathy of users with a healthcare background compared to those without. Future studies should include more in-depth examination on the effect on the specificity of empathy and attitude of people with healthcare background, and in teaching a wider range of mental illnesses such as depression and general anxiety disorder.

Interprofessional education in nursing: The impact of collaboration between physical and mental health care professionals

Objectives:lnterprofessional collaboration in the training of nursing and psychology students helps provide students of both disciplines with the ability and competences they need to best attend to their patients.This study implemented and analyzed a method for developing the competences of each discipline in a scenario of joint clinical simulation that incorporates mental and physical health simultaneously,and measured the caring ability of the participating students.Methods:Participants took a self-applied survey measuring their own caring ability.After,a clinical simulation was performed where nursing students performed clinical interviews on psychology students,who acted as standardized patients.Caring abilities were measured in the nursing students,and the psychology students implemented an intervention service measuring caring ability and brief-debrief simulation by coaching to nursing students.Results:The results indicated that the self-applied questionnaire of caring ability resulted in scores significantly higher than what was measured by observers.Conclusions:The results contribute to the development of protocols,training and collaborative work practices in interprofessional education,which allow the scaling of these competences.

Thoughts on Integration of TCM Elements into Mental Health Education

The contemporary college students in China are facing the pressure of study,employment and interpersonal relationship in current complicated society,and their mental health condition is not optimistic.Therefore,it plays a crucial role by integrating TCM elements into mental health education.The paper deliberates the problem of integrating TCM elements into mental health education of college students,and puts forward suggestions and measures.

Promoting Effect of School Physical Education on Adolescent Mental Health Education--On the Cultivation of“Masculinity”

This paper learned the status quo of adolescent mental health through literature method.In recent years,the lack of“masculinity”has attracted more and more attention from the society,which has become a hot topic at present.The lack of“masculinity”is also closely related to the problems of adolescent mental health.By analyzing the causes of the lack of youth“masculinity”,this paper makes clear the mission of the times that school sports should undertake in the process of shaping youth“masculinity”in the new era:(1)strengthen the top-level design of policy and pay attention to policy guarantee;(2)integrated education of physical education and moral education,focusing on the training of students’sense of responsibility and moral responsibility;(3)improve the competition system,promote learning by“competition”,and promote teaching by“competition”to strengthen physical quality practice and build up physical and mental health quality;(4)strengthen the condition guarantee:“matching”and“strengthening”physical education teachers,reform the physical education teaching content,strengthen the school physical education curriculum system.Only from the action,the idea,the method step by step to perfect,the implementation of the ground,the school physical education to the youth’s mental health problems can play a real role in promoting.

Application of ETA in the Management of Mental Health Education for College Students

In view of the common psychological problems of college students,this paper analyzed the current situation and problems of college students,and found that the management of mental health education is complex and difficult.A main reason is the lack of scientific method guidance.According to this phenomenon and the existing problems,using the event tree analysis(ETA),the qualitative and quantitative analysis,it found that emergency treatment is the most important link in mental health education management of college students,test education talk emergency four links missing and failure will lead to hidden danger.Finally,combined with the principle of education and management,and psychological principle,it proposed method for the event tree mental health education management.

Discussion on the Misunderstandings of Mental Health Education in Colleges and Universities and the Improvement

Colleges and universities are the educational institutions of training young students. The reform of the modem higher education system requires the personnel training in colleges and universities to lay a stress on the diversified development, so that the traditional single professional course education can be changed. Mental health has a close tie with the personal development trend of each student in colleges and universities, and also developing mental health education is one of the most important parts in higher education. For a long time, colleges and universities always adhere to the personnel-based educational idea and attach high importance to the work of professional course education, but fail to provide enough importance for guiding the detailed mental health of students. Thus, the mental health education in colleges and universities is misunderstood in many aspects, and this is studied in this paper.