WAYS TO OPTIMIZE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS

The article is devoted to the study of ways to optimize the physical and mental health and well-being of students. It was found that students have knowledge about the value of health and ways to improve it. The priority for the majority of respondents is leading a healthy lifestyle, only a small number of students do not adhere to the principles of a healthy lifestyle. The vast majority of students have methods of dealing with stressful and depressive states and apply them in practice.The main ways to preserve and strengthen the mental and physical health and well-being of student youth are: appropriate methodological training and psychological readiness of teachers to provide the necessary assistance in various stressful situations; planning educational activities based on health preservation; introducing health-preserving educational technologies into the educational process; creating the necessary conditions for the full, harmonious psychophysical development of students, which includes: compliance with sanitary and hygienic norms and requirements in educational premises; drawing up a rational schedule of classes; optimal physical activity regimen (introduction of physical education minutes in classes); creating conditions for students' nutrition in higher education institutions; implementing health-improving medical and preventive measures; creating a creative atmosphere in the educational institution, a psychologically comfortable communicative environment that prevents emotional burnout of teachers and violations of the psycho-emotional state of students; forming in students the appropriate skills and abilities to preserve and strengthen their health and the health of others; active use of art practices in the educational activities of higher education institutions; fruitful cooperation with the university's psychological service.