In the Seventeenth National Congress report, Hu Jintao clearly proposed to strengthen and improve ideological and political work, pay attention to humanistic care and psychological counseling and use correct method to deal with interpersonal relationship. In the 18th report, he stressed once again to strengthen and improve the ideological and political work, pay attention to humanistic care and psychological counseling to foster self-esteem, self-confidence, rational, peaceful, and positive

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... al attitude. What's more, it also emphasized to humanistic care and psychological counseling so as to adopt the correct way to deal with interpersonal relationship, giving new connotation to ideological and political education, broadening the horizon of educators in terms of theory and practice. University students ' ideological and political education is an important component of ideological and political education work. It is meaningful to strengthen the psychological counseling, explore effective educational method and improve the effectiveness of the ideological and political education based their psychological and ideological characteristics. Therefore, this paper aims to carry out systematic and deep exploration on the psychological counseling method, trying the utmost to enhance its development in order to strengthen the effectiveness. Based on existing research results, this paper tries to discuss the counseling methods for modern university students in terms of ideological and political education.