What are the benefits of psychological tourism?

During the National Day and the Golden Week of the Spring Festival, all kinds of tours are dazzling. However, many people may not have heard of psychological tourism. They just go on the road with a psychologist who is also a teacher and friend, open their hearts in nature, pour out their worries about mountains and rivers, and receive psychological counseling during the trip. What role can psychological tourism play compared with general tourism? As one of the earliest advocates of psychological tourism, Ms. Yang Xia, a professor of psychology at Peking Union Medical College, told reporters that psychological tourism is used for psychological rehabilitation and can bring deep relaxation.

Psychological tourism teaches people to rest. Professor Yang Xia believes that modern people are under great work pressure and often feel very tired. In fact, they are not physically exhausted, but will not rest. For example, during the National Day holiday, some white-collar workers feel too tired to work at ordinary times, and choose seemingly relaxed leisure ways such as playing cards, listening to music and watching TV. Others simply sleep for a few days. In fact, these are not scientific ways to rest. Why? It turns out that the fatigue of white-collar workers mostly belongs to mental fatigue or psychological fatigue, not physical fatigue, and physical rest can not alleviate the fatigue of these people.

Through psychological tourism, we hope to tell you what a real rest is. For example, taking part in outdoor activities and physical exercise, engaging in beneficial social activities, relaxing the brain and adjusting mental state during exercise can solve the problems of mental fatigue and psychological boredom. Professor Yang Xia said.

Psychological tourism is different from ordinary tourism. The organizers of psychological tourism will make some special arrangements during the trip, such as:

Choose scenic spots carefully. Psychologists will choose some beautiful and hard places, so that when they travel, they are very bitter and tired, and when they return to work, they will have endless memories. Professor Yang Xia believes that if you want to have a real rest, you should not choose some scenic spots that are too comfortable, such as the beach. People just lie on the beach and get bored when they return to work.

Organize group activities. Organizers divide the tour group into several groups to carry out some competitive group activities, such as mountaineering competition, and take the time when the last person in each group reaches the top of the mountain as the group's achievement. In this way, everyone will help each other consciously, the people who are concerned will be grateful, the people who care will be ready to help others, and there will be good exchanges and communication between them. In addition, some psychological games will be interspersed during the trip.

For psychological counseling. During the trip, the psychologist will sort out the emotions for everyone. For example, when visiting the thatched cottage, members sit around to make a cup of tea and tell their problems and feelings in the third person. Experts don't judge whether it's right or wrong, but they will help members summarize their performance during the trip, give tips and guidance, and sometimes explain some social skills.

In the past, we also had psychological discussion, sensitivity training, group training and other psychotherapy activities, but now we have cancelled them, because doing so will be very tiring for both members and consultants themselves, and the effect of relaxing through tourism will be greatly reduced. Professor Yang Xia told reporters.

Psychological tourism should strengthen social training. The so-called psychological tourism is a new concept put forward by China's psychology, which has not been said in the United States. This reporter interviewed dr. zhang, an American psychologist. He believes that psychological tourism is a new thing, and its psychological core is actually social training. It is the uniqueness of psychological tourism that everyone is happy to travel around and then interspersed with some social skills training. Strengthen social training, psychological tourism will be rewarded.

Dr. zhang believes that social skills training is very important for office workers with high work pressure. Why are American basketball and football games so popular? Because it is also a social occasion, everyone has a good exchange and interaction in the arena to relax. During the golden week of tourism, tourism is happy and will not bring any psychological problems. Problems are often caused by the inconvenience of traveling, such as accidents, delays, anger, congestion, loss of property and so on. It is very important to prepare for these accidents before departure. Dr. zhang finally special reminder.