Study the mental health of adolescent girls related to their socio-economic background

Abstract

Every educationalinstitution, worth the name, desires that its students should do their best to learn what they are expected to learn. Now doing thebest to learn on the part of students means that they should fully utilize the strength of their cognitive assets to learn. But these assets can be fully utilized by students only if they are mentally healthy. Mental health is important in each phase of life. But adolescence appears to be relatively more important period of life. This is the period in which the personality traits develop and find expression in many directions. Adolescent children experience a number of physiological and psychological changes in this transitional period. For the mental health it is necessary that all our dispositions, native and acquired-should like the organs of .. , body, work not completely and fully, but harmoniously together. The first aim of education is to help the individual to grow mentally healthy. The child's mental health and balance are of utmost important in relation to his general health. The complexity and stress of modem living make necessary considerations of his mental health ifhe is to meet them successfully. According to Garrison (1965), Any period in life in which there is an undue physiological, social and emotional stress for which the individual is not prepared, is a period at which mental abnormalities may appear, or which were already in existence become more socially significant. If adolescents are mentally healthy then they are self-controlled and self- disciplined.