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Mental health education research center launched in Nanjing

english.jsjyt.edu.cn| Updated: December 1, 2021 L M S

Nanjing Normal University and the government of Xuanwu district in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province unveiled a research and applications center for primary and secondary school students' mental health education on Nov 27.

The two parties also launched a research project on system construction and application of psychological intervention for students on the same day. The project has been included as part of Jiangsu's forward-looking reform of elementary education.

Chen Fashan, head of the education bureau of Xuanwu district, said at the launch ceremony that the bureau will form a professional team to study mental health issues, as well as provide psychotherapy and psychiatric consulting services for all primary and secondary schools in the district.

An official at the Jiangsu Education Department Lin Wei said that the research is expected to improve mental health education for students and that he hopes it can find new ways of implementing mental health education.