Lecture on Adolescent Mental Health —Emotional Regulation
On the evening of April 9th, BRFLS held a lecture on students’ mental health at the auditorium. Ms. Yu Shan, the counselor at the Junior High, helped students explore different ways for emotional management.
At the beginning, Ms. Yu introduced the concept of behavior experiment, which was relatively strange to students. She also played a short but interesting video about behavior experiment that attracted the students’ attention and helped them establish a basic understanding of the concept.
After the warm-up activities, Ms. Yu began to invite students to participate in the new behavior experiment. 22 students volunteered to come up to the stage and they were divided into two groups for competition. The experiment was about passing on a message. It was amusing when finally the story was completely changed after several rounds of whispering. Through the behavior experiment, Ms. Yu introduced the relationship between daily thinking and reality. Afterwards, the students had a heated discussion on emotion, such as different types of emotions, emotional complex, and multi-level connotation. While pictures and stories were displayed on the screen, the students actively reacted to teacher’s questions.
As a follow-up, Ms. Yu introduced the concept of emotional thermometer to allow students to learn how to divide their emotions into several levels and how to use different strategies to deal with the emotions. She pointed out that our behavior follows a certain cycle: from idea to emotion to behavior. She introduced different ways of regulating emotions including magic word and relaxation training, which provided students with several measures from multi angles.
Lectures on adolescent mental health are an important part of moral education in middle school. BRFLS will continue carrying out lecture series on youth topics to guide our students to solve their problems.
