The first season ��Interpersonal relationship" mental health group counseling activities is held on 10th and 24th April, which bring some fresh air to the undergraduate international students in Zhejiang University. This activity is organized by Mental Health Education Institution of Zhejiang University (MHEI) and International College. Through two times of group counseling activities, help undergraduate students to adopt a positive attitude to face the Interpersonal relationship, improve their methods of interpersonal communication, and learn to coordinate interpersonal relations. It will be a wonderful April for the undergraduate international students as their will have some new feeling about their friends.
The firstgroup counseling activity on 10th focus on listening. In order to feel the charm of listening and understand its significance. Through a game of ��Friend quality auction��, students choose the important qualities of an ideal friend. Some qualities such as ��the same values ", "kind" and "tolerant" are mentioned a lot in the discussion. Talking about the characteristics which a best friend must have and comparing themselves with it, and also finding what we lack in interpersonal relationships.
The second activity on 24th aims on ��emotion��. Through psychological skits, promote students for thinking in harmony relationship. Student representatives are divided into two groups, they are required to prepare a psychological skit at that moment, as the director, screenwriter, and actors. The skits focus around the topic of relationship between boys and girls. exploring the real meaning behind the "quarrel" problem. With the help of the psychological experts, students learn that behind the quarrel, the girls lack of sense of security and feel loss, while the boys say that they will understand girls�� mentality and express the confusion in emotional problems.
Lots of students, who are from Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Venezuela, Japan, Central Africa, Jamaica and other countries, are interested in the activity. The series of Interpersonal group counseling activities is a part of mental health propaganda and education during spring/summer semester 2015 of Zhejiang university, designed to help students to deal with environmental adaptation, interpersonal, friendships, love, and emotion regulation of confusion, improve students mental health level.
Author &Photographer: Chen Nanfei
