How to reduce psychological stress during the college entrance examination sprint

How to reduce psychological stress during the college entrance examination sprint

As the college entrance examination approaches, many candidates and parents who are about to take the college entrance examination are getting more and more nervous. Some candidates even have problems such as insomnia, anxiety and irritability. The psychological counselor suggested that parents should not be overly nervous about their child's learning, so as not to affect the candidates' emotions.

Survey: increased student psychological counseling

“There is pressure and tension.” In a random interview with a student who is about to take the college entrance examination, a reporter found that as the college entrance examination is approaching, many students will have headaches and anxiety.

Senior high school student Ding Jing told reporters that he felt that the pressure of competition was relatively large in the experimental class. After entering the third year of high school, he often had headaches and anxiety, and could not fully devote himself to reading. In particular, I see that everyone is immersed in hard work, but they are more anxious when they are not calm, and sometimes they lose sleep. Although she also tried her best to adjust her mindset, but after a while there will be the same problem, these troubles make her feel very painful.

With this question, the reporter consulted Zhang Zhichao, a psychological counselor in Yantai Sanzhong. She told reporters that most of the students who took the initiative to find a psychological teacher are high school students. The consultation questions mainly focus on the pressure of the college entrance examination, the test objectives and expectations are too far, and the learning burnout. The pressure caused by these problems sometimes manifests in the students' physical physiology, such as insomnia and headache. Some high school students seek help from the teacher by calling and sending messages, and students are also accompanied or individually to conduct psychological counseling.

“Especially in the last few months, finding the right position is the key. Many students and parents have higher expectations, which is accompanied by greater pressure.” Teacher Zhang said, the seriousness of the candidate’s psychological problems It is mainly determined by the overall quality of the candidates, including the candidate's outlook on life, emergency ability and personality. Lack of self-confidence; lack of opinion, easy to be hinted; individuality, lack of interest, too much focus on learning personality is often more likely to produce psychological problems before the exam.

Weapons: Learn psychological cues

For these psychological problems that students have, Mr. Zhang said that students must first learn to suggest themselves. It can control the behavior that affects you. Positive psychological cues are positive reminders and instructions that guide people's potential positive motivation and positive. the behavior of.

Candidates can often give positive hints to themselves, telling them "I am OK", "I am fully capable of coping with the exam", "I am ready", etc. Under this self-adjustment, I can eliminate my mentality well. Stress, thereby eliminating anxiety and relaxing. In addition, students must correctly understand their abilities, appropriately lower their expectations, and not be too demanding on themselves. "It is necessary to face up to the difference in performance between people, to look at their own achievements objectively, and to set goals that are in line with their own abilities." Candidates can imply themselves: as long as they work hard, no matter what the final result is, they are worthy of The heart is also worthy of the parents.

In addition, we must pay attention to the combination of work and rest, because the combination of work and rest helps to reduce stress, eliminate fatigue in time, and effectively transfer the attention of candidates. For high-intensity mental work, good and appropriate sports should be carried out to reduce tension.

Parents: not easy to pay too much attention

“Parents should pay attention to their children moderately.” Teacher Zhang Zhichao said that every year the college entrance examination is approaching, there are always many parents who are close to the enemy, and sometimes even more nervous than the candidates. In fact, such anxious emotions are easily transmitted to children, thus affecting The mood of the child.

Teacher Zhang said that parents should not be embarrassed at this stage, and it is not appropriate to pay too much attention to their children's academic performance. In addition, parents should focus on strengthening communication with their children. "This kind of communication should pay attention to skills." Parents and children should pay more attention to the state of their children's lives and help them transfer their anxiety. In addition, parents' lower expectations for their children can also have positive effects on the other hand. Excessive expectations generally have great psychological pressure on children, which is not conducive to stabilizing the test mentality. Parents should also help children learn to self-debuy, relax in time, work and rest.