May 25 every year is the National Day for Colleague Students Mental Health in the country. Shanghai University of Sport has recently kicked off the 14th Mental Health Education Month.
On the opening ceremony, Shanghai University of Sport and Yangpu District Psychological Health Center signed the cooperation on combining medicine and education. As ruled, the two parties will reinforce efforts for students’ mental health education, explore new measures for mental health education in universities in the new situation, enhance the cooperation between mental health service institution of the school and professional psychological institutions, and jointly promote students’ healthy growth.
On the same day, “Dancing Mind” Workshop gave the first open class. More than 10 students used body language to express emotions and release pressure under the guidance of the professional dancing therapist.
The dancing therapy team in Shanghai University of Sport is a social organization for commonweal, aiming to intervene with ordinary and special groups of people and facilitate rehabilitation treatment. According to Magulan Danmu who is in charge of the workshop, dancing therapy as a branch of mental therapy, balances people’s body, heart, mind and social functions by combining body language and mental treatment. It is an emerging rehabilitation and health discipline. “Dancing treatment suits widely. For ordinary people, it is a good way to keep healthy, promote physical and mental integrity and develop self potential. It helps individuals and families enhance self confidence and intimacy. It also helps enterprises to boost employees’ creativity and team spirit,” she said. Furthermore, dancing therapy is also suitable for clinic treatment, i.e., children autism and adult Alzheimer disease, etc.
The theme of the mental health month is “Creative Expression; Free Your Mind”, aiming to fully inspire student’s self exploration, expression and creativity with various forms of art and games to promote mental health. The mental health center of the university, mental tutors in each of the departments and schools and the social organizations have designed about 20 activities focusing on the theme, including lectures, films, photo exhibitions, hand painted newspaper design competition, storytelling and campus drama, etc.
Led by Yangpu District Health and Family Planning Commission, Yangpu District Psychological Health Center has carried out cooperation with a number of universities and schools and launched “Yangpu District Pilot Program on College Students Mental Health Service Combining Medicine & Education” last year. The center and nine universities including Fudan, Tongji, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics and the Second Military Medical University have carried out mutual construction and explored the working mechanism including the setup of intervention alarm and opening green passages. By integrating the universities and combining medicine and education, the universities and hospitals will enhance communication and interaction.
Yangpu District Health and Family Planning Commission has set up a team made up of psychological physicians, mental therapists and nurses from Yangpu District Psychological Health Center to provide services to the universities regularly. In 2015, the team provided mental consulting and evaluation services for more than 120 people, outpatient services for 50 people and hospitalized two people. The team also invited experts and organized various kinds of activities including “Mental Health Law Propaganda”, Mental Problems and Treatment for College Students, psychical analysis application, and case supervision in these universities.
