PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1636327
This article is part of the Research TopicPublic Health Strategies to Improve Mental Health in the Education Sector: Perspectives and ApplicationsView all 19 articles
Exploring the Construction of a Youth Mental Health Campus Ecosystem Integrating Research-Practice Teaching
Provisionally accepted
- Guangdong Industry Polytechnic University, Guangzhou, China
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This study explores the construction of a youth mental health-promoting campus ecosystem based on integrated research-practice teaching. In response to the fragmentation of traditional mental health education in Chinese universities, the model incorporates ecosystem theory, embodied cognition, and multi-agent collaboration to build a four-dimensional support system: curriculum-practice integration, internal-external stakeholder synergy, environmental optimization, and institutional sustainability. Through immersive practices like psychodrama, mind mapping, and mindful walking, students' psychological capital and self-regulation abilities are enhanced. The model emphasizes collaboration across psychological, educational, and managerial units, as well as coordination with families, communities, medical institutions, and enterprises. By combining physical space design with digital tracking platforms, the ecosystem enables all-scenario psychological support.Challenges such as insufficient longitudinal validation, ethical concerns in AI-driven interventions, and uneven resource allocation remain. This study provides a localized and actionable framework for advancing youth mental health in higher education, supporting a shift from crisis intervention to positive psychological development.
Keywords: Youth mental health, research-practice teaching, Ecological system, Collaborative education, campus ecosystem
Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 11 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Tao Gao, Guangdong Industry Polytechnic University, Guangzhou, China
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