Research on the Construction of Mental Health Service System for College Students in the Internet Age from the Perspective of Storytelling Education

The Internet has profoundly reshaped the survival, social interaction and cognitive patterns of college students. New psychological risks such as information overload, virtual social alienation, internet addiction, and digital privacy anxiety continue to emerge. Traditional university mental health services have shortcomings such as rigid forms, disconnection between supply and demand, insufficient collaboration, and shallow integration of technology. Story-based education, as a flexible educational model with both ideological value guidance and psychological healing functions, can fill the gap in the lack of humanistic warmth in digital psychological services. Supported by Bronfenbrenner’s ecosystem theory, narrative therapy and social learning theory, this study interprets the internal logic of applying story-based education to college mental health services against the backdrop of Internet media, extracts the “situational infiltration-emotional resonance-cognitive reconstruction-behavioral tendency” spiral action path, constructs a longitudinal growth axis and a dual spiral-driven service framework of horizontal element collaboration, and systematically disassembles the five core elements of story-based education, namely the subject, content, method, scene, and goal. It integrates digital technologies such as VR/AR, AI, and online narrative platforms to establish a three-dimensional practical carrier. Combined with the school-based practice of Southwest Petroleum University, it sorts out the mental wellness narrative resources, online mental wellness radio stations, narrative group workshops, VR immersive psychological experiences, etc., analyzes the limitations of the current system such as insufficient long-term tracking data, lack of personalized matching capability, and lack of home-school-community collaboration, and proposes optimization paths from four dimensions: intelligent empowerment, evidence-based practice, all-round integration, and inter-school resource sharing. The research aims to promote the deep coupling of psychological education and ideological education, and provide replicable and scalable narrative-based mental health service solutions for the implementation of the “Three Comprehensive Education (all-staff, all-process, all-round education)” pattern in universities in the Internet era.