Mental Health (Emotional, Social)

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Mental Health(Emotional, Social)

• What is Mental Health?
• A state of emotional and psychological well-being
  in which an individual is able to use his or her
  cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in
  society, and meet the ordinary demands of
  everyday life

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Personality

• Who you are is reflected in your personality
• Its a mix of how you feel, think, and behave
  that makes you different from everyone else.
• Psychologists have developed theories on how
  personalities are shaped.
• 2 main influences
• Heredity
• Environment

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Heredity

• You are born with characteristics of you
  personality.
• Intelligence-children have levels of intelligence
  similar to their parents
• Ex. Identical twins http//www.newscientist.com/ar
  ticle/dn1520-iq-is-inherited-suggests-twin-study.h
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• Instincts-Inherited by all people Never needs to
  be learned
• Humans are believed to have very few natural
  instincts.
• Ex. A baby nursing

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Heredity cont.

• Characteristics that describe personalities
• Extrovert
• Outgoing
• Introvert
• Keeps to
• themselves/Shy
• May be a combination of the two

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Environment

• You develop many personality traits because of
  your particular environment family, school,
  community
• Socialization includes passing along of ones
  cultural heritage through the teaching of
  religion, traditions, dress and ways of behaving
  toward other people.

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Socialization

• Ways socialization occurs
• Conditioning- Rewards and punishments
• Examples?

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• Modeling- learning by watching and imitating
• Examples?

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• Exposure- People and places beyond home

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Other Socialization

• Gender
• Expectations of society because of your gender

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Other socialization

• Stereotyping
• Expectations of society because of your ethnicity
  or gender groups. Thinking all members of a large
  group are the same
• IT IS NOT ALWAYS TRUE
• IT CAN HURT SOMEONES FEELINGS

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Stereotypes
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Maslows Heirarchy of Needs

• Basic Needs must be met before higher needs.

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Early Experiences influence later development

• Infancy
• Learning about everything-if an infant lacks
  something, they will struggle later in life.
• Ex. Deprived love, they will crave love or not
  understand it.
• Childhood
• Learn more Independence/Self control
• Gender identification
• Freud-Girls take after their mom, boys their dad
• Erikson/Piaget-Child models whatever behavior
  they are comfortable with
• Adolescence-Beginning of adult stage
• Mood swings
• Question self/values
• Who am i?
• What do I believe?
• Where am I going?

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Healthy Personality

• Realistic Self concept- How you see yourself
• Realistic Self-esteem- How you feel about
  yourself
• Trust others
• Take responsibility for his/her actions
• Procrastination-AVOID
• Blaming-Dont blame other, but dont always blame
  self
• Anger- Deal with anger constructively
• Respect- Show respect to get respect

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Make Changes?

• Self-Examination
• Read the essay you wrote on your personality.
• What would you like to change about your
  personality (how you treat others, stereotyping
  etc)? What do you think you should change about
  yourself to work towards a healthier mental
  state?
• What are you proud of?
• What are your strengths? What are your
  weaknesses?
• Use at least 4 vocablulary words from the notes
  in this essay. Ex. I would like to become less of
  an introvert