The present disclosure provides a channel monitoring control method and a terminal. The method includes: performing a first operation in a case that a monitoring resource in a power saving control channel conflicts with a resource corresponding to a first behavior, where the first operation includes one of the following: monitoring the power saving control channel; skipping monitoring the power saving control channel; and skipping monitoring the power saving control channel in a control resource set CORESET based on a currently activated transmission configuration indicator TCI state.