With the changes of society and people’s ideas and concepts , college student’s mental health has greatly aroused the attention of the education department Traditional college students’ mental health education is based on school administrative system which is a boring method that can not be acceptted easily Social work methods are used to mental health education,which has changed the traditional preaching and paternalistic model of education Social work methods see “Help People to Help Themselves” concept as the core, and establish a platform for equally exchange, which has greatly improved the performance of mental health education This paper actively explores a general approach to introduce social work to students’ mental health education ,which largely use the method of case by case and community work, with the focus on empirical research