Beijing, June 6 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) held the 4 China Children's Mental Health and Family Construction Summit Forum in Beijing on June 6, launching the "Beautiful Adolescents and Children's Mental Health" project. Experts and scholars from all over the country gathered together to focus on the theme of children's mental health and family building, focusing on the relationship between children's cognitive health and family parenting from the multi-dimensional perspectives of psychology, education, neuroscience and so on.
Sun Xianghong, secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said in his speech that after the state introduced the "double reduction" policy in 2021, while paying attention to children's learning, children's mental health has been paid more and more attention. The Family Education Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China, which came into effect on January 2022, 1, is the first time that special legislation on family education has been introduced in China, and family education has been elevated from "family affairs" to "state affairs". This forum focuses on parental upbringing and children's social ability development after "double reduction", and she hopes to build a social support environment that integrates family, school and society through exchanges and discussions, and jointly promote the development of children's "heart" escort in the new era.
At the 2023 China Children's Mental Health and Family Construction Summit Forum, according to the needs of children's healthy growth in the current society and the importance of paying attention to children's cognitive health, focusing on parents' parenting goals and the impact of parenting behaviors on children, on how to help children establish good habits, cultivate children's good emotional ability, cultivate children's good cognitive ability and other issues, from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Peking University Sixth Hospital, Capital Normal University, Nine experts and scholars from Nanjing Normal University made special reports based on their own scientific research practices, sharing their research progress and applications in children's attention deficit, primary and secondary school mental health education, children's literacy development, etc., and popularizing scientific knowledge in the field of children's mental health.
Liu Zhengkui, a researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, made a forum keynote report entitled "Digital Assessment and Intervention of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children", pointing out that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, which is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts until adulthood. New technologies, represented by smartphones, are undermining children's subjectivity and depriving them of the ability to concentrate. For example, playing mobile games, watching TV, visiting online stores, etc., let children hand over their precious concentration, let the rules of the activity itself control, over time, resulting in further degradation and loss of the ability to concentrate, and it is more difficult to complete challenging tasks.
Liu Zhengkui, researcher at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a keynote speech at the forum. Photo by Sun Zifa, reporter of China News Agency
Liu Zhengkui reminded that lack of attention is an important cause of children's mental health problems, which not only leads to the lagging development of children's cognitive ability, but also brings a series of problems to children's social development and academics. "Attention has become one of the most scarce psychological resources in this era", he called for strengthening the protection of children's attention in the information age, and implementing comprehensive intervention on children's attention problems through modules such as "movement and feeling", "information processing training", "mindfulness biofeedback", "anti-interference training" and "parent support plan".
In the roundtable session of the forum, focusing on the theme of "Countermeasures and Suggestions for Promoting Children's 'Heart' Escort in the New Era", a number of experts and scholars in the fields of education and psychology discussed and put forward suggestions for building a three-in-one social support environment of family, school and society, promoting children's mental health development and efficient learning, and providing feasible suggestions for helping parents find problems, recognize problems and solve problems in parenting.
The forum was guided by the Bureau of Science and Technology for Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, hosted by the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, co-organized by the Child Development Research Center of the China Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation, and organized by Fujian Zhongkedote Education Investment Co., Ltd. Prof. Zhang Kan, Director of the Child Development Research Center of the China Care for the Next Generation Committee, and Prof. Han Bixin, Chairman of the Seventh Branch of the International Association of Applied Psychology (AAP), attended and delivered speeches. Fujian Zhongke Dott Education Investment Co., Ltd. also read the "Proposal on Further Promoting the Development of a Series of Public Welfare Activities for Children's Mental Health and Family Construction in China" at the forum. (End)