The Voice of CCNU In response to the the call of the 37th College Students' Mental Health Publicity Month of CCNU and to serve the needs of students’ mental health development, the Mental Health Education Publicity Month of School of History and Culture officially kicked off at 18 : 00 p.m. on May 15th with the beginning of the lecture on the theme of “Original Family and Intimate Relationship”. The lecture was delivered by Professor Yu Haijun from Mental Health Education Center of CCNU. Deputy Secretary of the College Party Committee Kang Wei, counselors, undergraduates, postgraduates and some parents of students participated in this event online and offline. The activity was hosted by Fu Jiaqi, contacts of college mental health work and counselor of 2020 grade undergraduates.
At the beginning of the event, Deputy Secretary of the College Party Committee Kang Wei made an address. She pointed out that mental health is the foundation and significant condition for college students’ growth and success. Mental health education is an important part of talents cultivation as well as ideological and political work in university. She briefly introduced the college’s student affairs' conception of “Educating Hearts, Teaching History, Cultivating Talents, Being a Human, Pursuing Scholarship, Becoming a Teacher” and relevant circumstances that the college carried out mental health education in all directions relying on “Xinhang” Mental Health Education Work Station. Secretary Kang mentioned that May 15th was the International Family Day, so that inviting Professor Yu Haijun to deliver the first lecture was at a right time, and she hoped everyone could obtain harvest through the speech.
Next, from four parts of differentiation, inheritance, rank and structure, Professor Yu introduced in detail the related concepts of original family and intimate relationship together with their connections with humorous language as well as vivid and appropriate cases.
Professor Yu said that the original family was a sociological concept, which usually referred to the family where individual was born and raised. Close relationship includes four types : the relationship between “I” and parents, the relationship between “I” and my spouse, the relationship between “I” and myself and the relationship between “I” and my children. Through playing film clips and analyzing family pedigree, he exposed various influence factors on the growth development of the individual from several aspects such as the tendency of differentiation and integration, the “boundary” in family, intergenerational inheritance, regional culture, ages ranking, family dispatch, family structure and so on, to help students scientifically and rationally sort out the reasons behind the common phenomenons of family and intimate relationships in life, simultaneously, find out the corresponding strategies. He guided the students to pay attention to the relationship between them and themselves, correctly treat their own shortcomings and advantages, learn to accept themselves, get along with themselves better and achieve preferably development.
The speech lasted for about two hours. Professor Yu interacted with teachers and students online and offline in real time, with the atmosphere relaxing and lively. In the question and answer session, Mr. Yu answered and responded mainly focusing on students questions about “how to resolve the negative impact of native family”. He indicated that the impact of the original family had both positive and negative sides, but the individuals were more likely to focus on the negative impact of the moment, often easy to ignore the positive one and took it for granted. It was very complicated to solve this problem, but we could try to dissociate from the question to hold a clearer and more comprehensive view of the family’s influence on individuals, then weigh and judge its proportion of positive and negative. We would find that although there were imperfections of the family, it gave us more positive influences, and we could get on well with it.
The students commented that this lecture let them have a deeper understanding of native families and intimate relationships. “Mr. Yu used film sections as introduction and explained through cases close to our experiences, which inspired the resonance in the bottom of my heart. I hope everyone can inherit more virtue from native families and manage every intimate relationship better in the future.”
Starting with this theme lecture, the college will focus on students’ mental health quality, individual problems counseling and prevention, psychological committee members’ working ability and counselors, class tutors’ working skills and other aspects, facing teachers, students, families and other objects, orderly promote the mental health education month activity with experiential activities with rich forms such as a series of theme lecture salons, psychological drama, “Heart Words Blind Box”good night plan, “Open Hearts, Exchange Minds”emotion transmission activity, “Self-acceptance”mental health theme letter-soliciting activity and so on.
If our mentality is positive, we will sailing for a long way. We hope that young students could pay more attention to caring and comforting their souls through participating and experiencing the college mental health education series activities, furthermore, they should cultivate rationally, peacefully, actively and healthy mentality.
Source: The Voice of CCNU
Author: Fu Jiaqi Kuang Huchenxi
Translator: Yu Jinye
Date: June 2, 2022
