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Psychology Rearch, September 2022, Vol. 12, No. 9, 730-734
doi:10.17265/2159-5542/2022.09.006
Rearch on the Improvement Path of the Mental Health of the Elderly From the Perspective of College Students’ Volunteer
Service Activities
DONG Haojun
Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China
The elderly are the main objects of college students’ volunteer rvice activities. At prent, there are various forms
of college students’ volunteer rvice activities, which are highly valued by colleges and universities an
d popular
among college students. In order to further improve the mental health of the elderly, it could be achieved through
paths like strengthening volunteering cooperation with aged rvices agencies, implementing the volunteer rvice
mechanism of “one person-one file, one person-one policy” for the elderly, establishing a mental health mentor
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system for volunteer rvice activities, improving the mental health knowledge level of college student volunteers,
carrying out a ries of voluntary rvice activities with the theme of mental health, attaching importance on
cultivating the positive and optimistic attitude of the elderly in volunteer rvice activities, and launching volunteer
rvice activities to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly.
托福与雅思的区别Keywords: the aging of population, college students’ volunteer rvice activities, the elderly, mental health
Introduction
Ordinarily, a country or region can be considered to have entered an aging society when the proportion of the elderly population over 60 years old or over 65 years old in the country’s total population exceeds 10% or 7% (Wang & Wang, 2022; Wang, 2016; Zhao, 2015). In 1999, China began to enter the aging society, becoming the early group of developing countries to enter the aging society (Mu & Zhang, 2011; Xu, 2011). Faced with an aging population, it is necessary to actively solve the problems relevant to the older, like caring for the elderly, meeting the actual needs of the elderly as much as possible, managing the work of rving the elderly, improving the mental health of the elderly, and promoting the quality of life and spirituality of the elderly. Bad on the author’s work experience with college students, this paper discuss how to improve the mental health of the elderly from the perspective of college students’ volunteer rvice activities.
The Basic Situation of Our Country’s Aging Society
According to the latest data from the Statistical Bulletin of the People’s Republic of China on Nationa
l Economic and Social Development in 2021, the elderly population in our country has far exceeded the standard number, and is developing towards a more and more rious degree of population aging. In order to better
conduct the work of population aging, the country actively explores countermeasures, such as improving the
DONG Haojun, Lecturer, Economics and Management College, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, China.
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community home-bad care environment, exploring the community home-bad care model, establishing a sound social curity system for the elderly, vigorously developing the aging industry, developing aging human resources, and formulating progressive formula to postpone the retirement age policy, etc.
The Basic Situation of College Students’ Volunteer Service Activities The Youth Volunteer Work Department of Colleges and Universities is a college student organization engaged in the managem
ent, organization, and coordination of college student volunteer rvice activities under the management and guidance of the college youth league committees. Normally, the Youth Volunteer Work Department of the school ts up a condary college branch, which is responsible for the youth volunteer activities of each condary college, forming a management and operation model at the school and college levels. In daily work, the Youth Volunteer Work Department of Colleges and Universities organizes a ries of volunteer rvice activities such as caring for the elderly, sanitation, and unpaid blood donation, and the elderly are the main volunteer rvice objects. In the specific activities of rving the elderly, it is mainly to organize college students to go to the nursing home to carry out voluntary rvice activities, provide loving care, emotional comfort, etc. In this way, the elderly can feel warmth, love, and kindness, which is helpful to meet their spiritual comfort and psychological need and plays a positive role in improving the quality of their life.
Characteristics of College Students’ Volunteer Service Activities
power stripColleges and Universities Attach Great Importance to the Work of Volunteering for the Elderly The country has always attached great importance to the elderly group, and propod to pay more attention to the work of old-age curity and strengthen the work of the elderly. It is clearly necessary to accelerate the development of the old-age rvice industry and the construction of the old-age r
vice system, to build a policy system and a social environment of old-age caring, filial piety, and respecting for the elderly, to integrate medical treatment and elderly care rvices and to accelerate the development of aging career and industry. Correspondingly, colleges and universities also actively shoulder social responsibilities. They highly value the work of volunteering for the elderly, pull their weight on caring for the elderly, fully utilize the college students of knowledge, quality, and emotional intelligence to launch or organize volunteer rvice activities for college students, and guide college students to actively devote themlves to society.
Colleges and Universities Regularly Carry Out Various Forms of Voluntary Service Activities The Youth Volunteer Work Department of Colleges and Universities carries out a ries of volunteer activities in various forms every mester, mainly including providing volunteer rvices for large-scale activities inside and outside the school, carrying out rvice work for the creation of civilized cities, organizing volunteer education activities in primary and condary schools, and holding activities for respecting the elderly, etc. The activities held or organized are equipped with high frequency, large number of times, and positive respon. Among the activities, taking elderly rvice as the object of voluntary rvice activities can enable college students to spread civilization, convey love, perceive the world, contribute to society, enrich emotions, and enhance communication skills, which has a positive role in promoting students’ growth and success.
College Students Are Keen to Participate in Volunteer Service Activities
College students are a group of ideals, goals, and vigor. They are full of social responsibility, love, and dedication, keen to participate in volunteer rvice activities on and off campus, being enthusiastic and having a
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strong volunteer spirit. College campus cultural activities are rich, and the volunteer rvice activities are one of the campus activities that college students like to participate in most. There are many college students applying the activities, who are passionate for participating.
建工网校The Improvement Path of the Mental Health of the Elderly From the Perspective of College
Students’ Volunteer Service Activities
Strengthen Volunteering Cooperation With Aged Services Agencies
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Communities, nursing homes, etc., are common rvice institutions for the elderly. They are familiar with and master the growth process, family background, hobbies, personality characteristics, mental state, and mental health of the elderly in their area. Therefore, the Youth Volunteer Work Department of Colleges and Universities should strengthen cooperation with rvice agencies for the elderly to ensure that the basic situation, psychological state, and practical problems of the elderly are well learned before volunteer rvice activities being carried out, which provides necessary help for further implementing targeted “one person, one policy” assistance and promoting the mental health of the elderly.
Implement the Volunteer Service Mechanism of “One Person-One File, One Person-One Policy” for the Elderly
It is necessary to establish a personal file of the elderly, recording the background information and psychological needs of each elderly rvice object in detail, the time and content of each volunteer rvice activity, and the changes in the elderly’s psychological state and the psychological intervention measures taken during the volunteer rvice activities and the psychological intervention effects, etc. All the measures are taken to ensure that psychological intervention files are recorded, psychological intervention methods are well founded, and psychological intervention ef
fects are guaranteed. In order to provide targeted assistance for college students’ volunteer rvice activities, it is necessary to take the personal files of the elderly and the information provided by the elderly rvice agencies, etc., as reference to implement “one person, one policy” management and rationally formulate individualized mental health improvement strategies for the elderly. Establish a Mental Health Mentor System for Volunteer Service Activities
With the increasing demand for rvices for the elderly and the complex and changeable psychology of the elderly, higher requirements are placed on the professionalism of volunteer rvice activities. Colleges and universities should make full u of the strong faculty of the school, establish a mental health tutor system for volunteer rvice activities, and hire full-time teachers with solid psychological professional knowledge, rich experience in psychological practice, and a strong n of social responsibility as tutors to guide volunteers to master the necessary mental health knowledge and provide professional support for college students to carry out volunteer rvices for the elderly before, during, and after the volunteer rvice activities of the elderly, which helps to improve the effectiveness of volunteer rvice activities.
Improve the Mental Health Knowledge Level of College Student Volunteers
In the past, we generally recruited college student volunteers with strong comprehensive abilities, such as strong ability, full of love, and strong willingness to rve during the process of recruiting. With the increasing attention to the mental health of the elderly, it is also necessary to consider whether college students have a professional background in psychology, whether they have certain psychological knowledge, and whether they have effective psychological intervention methods and measures when recruiting volunteers. It is esntial to
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reasonably recruit some college students with a professional background in psychology to participate in rvice activities and enrich the volunteer team. Besides, it is expected to utilize the natural advantages of the mentor system of volunteer rvice activities, and invite mentors to carry out special psychological training to teach psychological knowledge. And thus, volunteers can master the necessary psychological knowledge and u correct psychological intervention methods to solve problems encountered in the process of activities. Furthermore, it is support to establish an online learning platform for mental health knowledge, so that volunteers can learn psychological knowledge anytime and anywhere, and continuously improve the professionalism of the volunteer team. Finally, there is a must to establish a mental health knowledge evaluation system to check wh
ether the volunteers’ problem-handling methods are appropriate and whether the psychological intervention methods adopted are proper, and constantly strengthen the theoretical knowledge of mental health.
Carry Out a Series of Voluntary Service Activities With the Theme of Mental Health Most of the elderly have not learned psychological knowledge during their growth. When the elderly have psychological problems, they often have difficulty identifying the problem and do not know how to lf-regulate. Therefore, when organizing volunteer activities for college students, it is necessary to properly guide the elderly to master the necessary mental health knowledge to promote the mental health of the elderly. For example, when colleges and universities consider the form of volunteer rvice activities, they can regularly carry out volunteer rvice activities of psychological knowledge dismination lectures among the elderly groups, so that more elderly people can master certain psychological knowledge, learn to identify psychological problems, and learn to adjust themlves. In addition, colleges and universities can hold voluntary rvice activities of spiritual exchange meetings, allowing the elderly to express their inner thoughts, confusion, and expectations, understand the psychological problems of the elderly through interactive exchanges, and provide professional psychological guidance to help the elderly get rid of psychological distress. Colleges an
d universities can also provide voluntary psychological counling rvices for the elderly, open video consultation rvices, and telephone consultation to solve the psychological problems of the elderly in a timely manner.
Attach Importance on Cultivating the Positive and Optimistic Attitude of the Elderly in Volunteer Service Activities
The mentality of the elderly directly affects their attitude, lifestyle, and mental health. When college students carry out volunteer rvice activities, they should establish a deep friendship with the elderly and keep contact with them. When the elderly are faced with dias for a long time, the volunteers should pull their weight to enlighten them, encourage them to exerci properly, face up to the dia, maintain confidence, and consider the dia positively. When the elderly complain about getting old, they should actively guide them to understand aging correctly, and at the same time tell them not to be afraid of being old and keep an optimistic attitude. When the elderly complain that they are unhappy, they should chat with them more often, listen patiently, understand their inner world, and guide them to adjust their mentality and live happily.
Launch Volunteer Service Activities to Enrich the Spiritual and Cultural Life of the Elderly The reason
s why the elderly have low level of mental health and psychological emptiness are cloly related to the lack of extensive hobbies, excess free time, and long-term alone time. When carrying out volunteer rvice activities for college students, it is necessary to combine the professional background and
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experti of college student volunteers, and regularly hold various cultural and sports interest activities training cours among the elderly. Volunteers with sports experti are responsible for teaching badminton, table tennis, Go, chess, etc. Volunteers with art or calligraphy majors are responsible for painting and calligraphy teaching. Volunteers with musicology background are responsible for vocal practice, breath exerci, and skill training, stage style and other teaching. Volunteers who are widely read are responsible for holding book sharing ssions. Through a ries of activities, it is helpful to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the elderly and solve the problem of mental emptiness of the elderly.
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