PENSANDO A SAÚDE MENTAL DOS ESCOLARES POR MEIO DA LUDICIDADE

Abstract

Mental Health is the individual's ability to cope with their normal life emotions and activities and daily stress. The use of games and games in the school environment allows the student to have a better cognitive and emotional development. Therefore, the aim of this review was to analyze through literature whether games and games promote mental health and prevent mental illness in schoolchildren. The methodology used in this article is characterized as qualitative exploratory and bibliographic characteristics. Focusing on the analysis of the benefits of educational games for the individual. We conclude that games and games in the school environment contribute to the social, intellectual and cognitive development of the individual, allow the student to live experiences of achievement, creativity and acceptance, where they learn to deal with their emotions and stress in a playful way. The school is the environment in which human beings spend a good part of their lives and is where teachers have close contact with students and freedom to develop games and games in their classes, thus improving students' mental health. there will be improvement in school performance.