On 20 April, SDU-ANU Joint Science College held the 3rd Coffee Time on the theme of “Unlock Your Personality Password and Explore Your True Self” in Room 101, Dianzi Building to further implement the requirement of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, that we will place importance on mental and psychological health in his report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and to improve the college student’s mental and psychological diathesis. Deputy Party Dean, Ms. Wang Wei, the college counselors and English teachers were present and made speeches. About 100 2022 cohort students participated in the event.
At the beginning of the event, Wang Wei made a speech highly affirming the significance of the event. She hoped that the students will take an active part in it and keep an optimistic and positive attitude towards life and study in the good educational environment on campus to lay a solid foundation for their future development.
The event is rich in content and varied in form. Lizelle, a foreign teacher of English explained types of psychological problems and illustrated each with examples. She then asked the students to discuss in small groups for further understanding and meanwhile gave her suggestions to solve psychological problems. Other teachers of academic English course introduced MBTI and advantages and disadvantages of different types of personalities from different dimensions to help the students to know and accept themselves better and be more self-confident. In the interactive activity of praising, Lizelle encouraged the students to praise others as well as themselves openly and bravely. Then, Mr. Jia Hongfu, a counselor, shared some cases to analyse the source of psychological problems, trying to help the students to enhance their inclusiveness, self-acceptance and self-recognition. In the last role-play activity, students of different types of personality played different roles, learning to put themselves in others' positions to explore different inner world. The whole event proceeded in a cheerful atmosphere with bursts of applause and laughter.
This Coffee Time event is one of the measures the college has taken to improve the students’ mental and psychological health. It combines mental and psychological health education with fun games and communication in English to cultivate the students’ positive outlook, which reflects the college’s characteristics of internationalised education. It plays a positive role in improving the mental and psychological health education of the college and the students’ mental health diathesis.
