OPTIMIZING MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS' MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN CHINA

Abstract

Against the backdrop of China's comprehensive promotion of high-quality education development, adolescent mental health has emerged as a core issue in education governance, characterized by its youthfulness and complexity. Educational management serves as a key pathway to address the dilemmas in the construction of adolescent mental health systems. Based on educational management theory and system governance theory, this paper adopts multiple research methods and takes middle schools in China as the research object. It sorts out the development status and management shortcomings of adolescent mental health systems, analyzes the internal mechanism through which educational management optimizes such systems, constructs an education management-oriented adolescent mental health system with both theoretical and practical value, and proposes optimization strategies from three dimensions: internal school management, home-school-community collaborative management, and security system management. The study finds that educational management can achieve the deep integration of mental health education and daily teaching through institutional norms, resource integration, and other means, promoting the transformation of mental health work from "passive intervention" to "active prevention and control". The research results enrich the integration of educational management and mental health education, providing theoretical reference and practical basis for education administrative departments to formulate relevant policies and optimize the practice of mental health work in middle schools. It also helps implement the educational philosophy of "health first" and promotes the all-round development and personality improvement of middle school students.