Graduate students, as highly intelligent individuals, are more likely to experience mania during their studies than the general population. They are affected by learning pressure, environmental factors, and other factors and manifested as high spirits and irritability. Art therapy, as a relatively effective treatment method, is often used for psychological intervention and treatment. Therefore, this study innovatively constructs music courses from the perspective of ideological and political education to alleviate graduate students’ mania.

Fifty graduate students with mania from a certain university were selected as the research subjects and randomly divided into Group A and Group B. Group A used traditional treatment methods, while Group B added innovative music courses to the traditional treatment methods for combined treatment. After the experiment, the data were processed and analyzed using SPSS 20.0.

After the combination of results and intervention treatment, the overall compliance rate of student patients reached 98%, significantly higher than 60% in Group A; In the quality of life score, the social function score of Group B was 65.95 ± 4.20, the mental health score was 64.54 ± 4.89, and the psychological function score was 67.39 ± 5.14, all of which were higher than those of Group A.

From the perspective of ideological and political education in the curriculum, the innovative construction of music courses has an effective alleviating effect on graduate students’ mania.

Guangxi academic degree and postgraduate education reform project (No. JGY2021162).