TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wu, Yundong
AU  - Lin, Ruofan
AU  - Kong, Weijian
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/11
TI  - Building a Sustainable Educational Ecology for Arts Major Students: Practice-Based Model Development of a Counselor-Led Mental Health Support Model
JO  - Frontiers in Educational Innovation and Research
T2  - Frontiers in Educational Innovation and Research
JF  - Frontiers in Educational Innovation and Research
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SP  - 90
EP  - 103
DO  - 10.62762/FEIR.2026.535517
UR  - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/FEIR.2026.535517
KW  - higher education
KW  - college counselors
KW  - arts major students
KW  - student mental health
KW  - educational ecology
KW  - ecological systems theory
KW  - practice-based model development
AB  - Student mental health has become a core issue in university governance, yet existing support models remain insufficiently adaptive to the ecosystem of arts education, which is shaped by public performance, iterative critique, and identity exposure. This practice-oriented paper develops a counselor-led mental health support model for arts major students through a narrative review of relevant literature, reflection on the authors' long-term front-line counseling and student-affairs practice, and the analysis of illustrative de-identified composite cases derived from real practice. Drawing on ecological systems theory, the paper argues that sustainable support must link micro-level counseling work with meso-level studio and peer cultures, exo-level family and labor-market pressures, and macro-level university governance arrangements. The cases on anxiety management, self-esteem rebuilding, and crisis response show how emotional validation, staged task design, critique reframing, and coordinated referral can be integrated in the arts education context. The paper further identifies major implementation challenges and proposes optimization pathways that include critique-culture reform, faculty feedback-literacy training, family mental-health workshops, and ecosystem assessment indicators. The study contributes a conceptual framework and practice-based model development pathway for building a sustainable educational ecology for arts major students.
SN  - 3068-5664
PB  - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge
LA  - English
ER  - 

@article{Wu2026Building,
  author = {Yundong Wu and Ruofan Lin and Weijian Kong},
  title = {Building a Sustainable Educational Ecology for Arts Major Students: Practice-Based Model Development of a Counselor-Led Mental Health Support Model},
  journal = {Frontiers in Educational Innovation and Research},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {2},
  number = {3},
  pages = {90-103},
  doi = {10.62762/FEIR.2026.535517},
  url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/FEIR.2026.535517},
  abstract = {Student mental health has become a core issue in university governance, yet existing support models remain insufficiently adaptive to the ecosystem of arts education, which is shaped by public performance, iterative critique, and identity exposure. This practice-oriented paper develops a counselor-led mental health support model for arts major students through a narrative review of relevant literature, reflection on the authors' long-term front-line counseling and student-affairs practice, and the analysis of illustrative de-identified composite cases derived from real practice. Drawing on ecological systems theory, the paper argues that sustainable support must link micro-level counseling work with meso-level studio and peer cultures, exo-level family and labor-market pressures, and macro-level university governance arrangements. The cases on anxiety management, self-esteem rebuilding, and crisis response show how emotional validation, staged task design, critique reframing, and coordinated referral can be integrated in the arts education context. The paper further identifies major implementation challenges and proposes optimization pathways that include critique-culture reform, faculty feedback-literacy training, family mental-health workshops, and ecosystem assessment indicators. The study contributes a conceptual framework and practice-based model development pathway for building a sustainable educational ecology for arts major students.},
  keywords = {higher education, college counselors, arts major students, student mental health, educational ecology, ecological systems theory, practice-based model development},
  issn = {3068-5664},
  publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}