Mental and Emotional Health Unit 2

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Mental and Emotional HealthUnit 2

• Achieving Mental and Emotional Health
• Chapter 3

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What is Mental and Emotional Health?

• Accept yourself and others
• Express and manage emotions
• Deal with the demands and challenges of life
• It is important part of your total health

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Developing Your Self-EsteemCh 3, Lesson 1

• Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional
  Health
• Sense of belonging feeling close to others
  (family, friends, school/support)
• Sense of purpose you have value, recognize your
  importance as an individual

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• Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional
  Health
• Positive outlook bright side of life
• stress and success
• Self-sufficiency confidence to make responsible
  decisions promoting sense of independence and
  self-assurance
• Healthy self-esteem accept and recover from
  difficulties and failures

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• Good mental and emotional health helps you
  develop healthy self-esteem we will learn terms
• Define self-esteem
• Define resilient

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• Self-esteem how much you value, respect, and
  feel confident about yourself
• Good self-esteem will affect your overall
  attitude and health choices you make
• How does someone develop self-esteem and/or raise
  self-esteem?

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• Believe you will succeed, and if you dont, think
  about reasons why
• Unique abilities try and try again (new
  challenges, practice, perspective)
• Self-talk encourage or criticize?
• Positive self-talk will strengthen esteem
  replace negative thoughts

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• Benefits of Healthy Self-Esteem
• Confidence!
• Try new activities, sports, clubs learn new
  tasks, get a job
• Difference between being good at some things not
  good at all things
• Realistic expectations

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• Suggestions to improve self-esteem
• Choose friends who value and respect you
• Focus on positive aspects
• Work on accomplishments not perfection
• Exercise regularly, sleep 8-10 hours/day
• Volunteer to help someone else
• Accept the things you cant change, focus on
  changing the things you can

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• Resilient handle stress in positive ways the
  ability to adapt effectively and recover from
  disappointment, difficulty, and crisis
• you can look at pg. 67 in health book for more
  explanation

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• MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
• Theory that creates a ranking order of needs for
  each human to reach their full potential
• (pg. 70 in Glencoe Health Book)
• LEVEL 1 PHYSICAL (food,water,sleep,shelter)
• LEVEL 2 SAFETY (security from danger)
• LEVEL 3 BELONGING (to love and be loved)
• LEVEL 4 RECOGNITION (achievement recognition)
• LEVEL 5 REACHING POTENTIAL (self-actualization)

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Mental and Emotional HealthUnit 2

• Chapter 3, Lesson 2
• Developing Personal Identity and Character

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Personal Identity and Character Traits

• Personal Identity your sense of self as a
  unique individual
• Personality a set of characteristics that makes
  you unique
• Student activity write down a list of
  characteristics about yourself (at least 5
  qualities) on the back of your study guide

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• Character
• distinctive qualities that describe how a person
  thinks, feels, and behaves
• Character Traits Integrity (ethical values)
• Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility,
  fairness, caring, citizenship WCPSS School
  Traits (we follow and practice in school and
  class)

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• Working toward Positive Identity
• Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrate positive values
• Develop a purpose in your life
• Form meaningful relationships
• Avoid unhealthful high-risk behaviors
• Contribute to the community

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• Turn to page 75, Figure 3.7, read the Tips for
  Promoting a Healthy Identity and make a list of
  your skills and strengths on the same page you
  listed your characteristics
• Label the page with the title My Skills and
  Strengths to be turned in at end of lesson for
  participation grade

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Mental and Emotional HealthUnit 2

• Chapter 3, Lesson 3
• Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways

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Understanding Your Emotions

• Emotions
• signals that tell your mind and body how to react
• Hormones
• chemicals produced by your glands that regulate
  the activities of different body cells

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• Hormones can make you feel as if your emotions
  are swinging from one extreme to another (i.e.
  Mood Swings). Its normal to feel overcome by
  emotions during your teen years

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• Managing Your Emotions Positively through
  Empathy
• the ability to imagine and understand how
  someone else feels
• Understand that some people may feel
  uncomfortable expressing their feelings

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• Learning to recognize
• and express emotions
• Ask yourself
• Why do I feel this way?
• Will this event matter later in life?
• Why should I wait before responding?
• What can I do to feel better?
• Who can I ask to help me deal with these feelings?

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• Responding to Difficult Emotions using Defense
  Mechanisms
• mental processes that protect individuals from
  strong or stressful emotions and situations
• Sometimes used unconsciously but will still need
  to resolve the problem

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• Common Defense Mechanisms
• Repression
• Regression
• Denial
• Projection
• Suppression
• Rationalization
• Compensation

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• Damaging Emotions
• Fear
• Guilt
• Anger
• How do you deal with these feelings?

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• Learn to manage damaging emotions
• Handling Fear- recognize the fear
• Dealing with Guilt whats the cause?
• Managing Anger most difficult to handle
• take time to calm down relax, breathe deep
• channel energy in a different direction
• talk with someone you trust

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• Student Activity - Answer the following questions
  on a sheet of paper to turn in
• What are five common defense mechanisms?
• List three strategies for handling anger in a
  healthful way.
• What role do hormones play in affecting a
  teenagers emotions?
• Describe what can happen when you take time to
  think before you respond to a strong emotion.
• How can this help you stay healthy?