Mental

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Mental Emotional Health

• Self Esteem

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Standard

• HE8.1.b Describe the interrelationships of
  emotional, intellectual, physical, and
  social health in adolescence.

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What are some traits of a mentally and
emotionally healthy person?

• Positive outlook on life
• Effectively deal with challenges when they arise
• Accept the fact that situations and events will
  not always go the way they plan
• Set and achieve goals
• Understand and cope with their feelings in a
  healthy way
• Accept constructive criticism
• Express their feelings through words and creative
  outlets

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What makes you who you are?

• Your PERSONALITY
• Is the unique combination of feelings, thoughts,
  and behaviors that make you different from
  everyone else.
• Your SELF-CONCEPT
• The view you have of yourself.
• Both of these factors are especially influential
  during your teen years. Therefore, it is
  important to develop your personality and
  self-concept in positive and healthy ways.

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What makes you who you are?

• Personality

• Self-Concept

• Affects how you handle problems and new
  situations
• Different people react in different ways to the
  same situation
• Not necessarily right or wrong

• Shaped by your experiences and relationships
• What you see in the mirror
• How you believe others see you

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Self-Concept

• Begins to form in early childhood
• Earliest influence is family
• Love and support
• As you grow older and begin school, your peers
  and teachers begin to influence
• Praise

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A person who never made a mistake never tried
anything new.-Albert Einstein

• When a teen with a positive self-concept makes a
  mistake, the teen learns from the mistake and
  moves on.
• Those with a negative self-concept might feel
  like one mistake means that everything they do is
  wrong.
• Can keep you from achieving goals.
• Everyone makes mistakes.
• Thomas Edison?

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Why are the teen years so important?

• You develop your physical and mental abilities.
• You discover the kinds of people you want to
  build relationships with and the kind of
  activities you enjoy.
• You begin to form your own values and to
  understand the importance of standing behind
  them.
• What makes you unique?

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The way you feel about yourself, and how you
value yourself.
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Self-Esteem

• When you have high self-esteem, you feel
  appreciated and valued as a person.
• You have a high degree of confidence in your
  abilities, and you meet new challenges with a
  can-do attitude.
• When things go wrong, you are resilient.
• RESILIENCE is the ability to bounce back from
  disappointment.
• Important trait to develop.
• Enables you to get back on your feet after a
  disappointment and keep moving forward.

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Building Self-Esteem

• Whether your self-esteem is high or low, it can
  always be improved upon, You can develop skills
  to build your self-esteem and feel good about
  yourself. These skills can increase your overall
  level of mental/emotional health. The skills you
  can practice include
• Listing your strengths.
• Remembering that everyone makes mistakes.
• Motivating yourself.

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Listing Your Strengths

• Identify your talents and abilities. Everyone
  has special talents and skills. Make a list of
  them. For example, you may be a loyal friend or
  a good listener. You may also be a really good
  basketball player or writer.

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Everyone Makes Mistakes
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Motivate Yourself

• Identify your goals and what you need to do to
  reach them. Make a plan for getting from where
  you are to where you want to be. Achieving a
  goal you set for yourself will give you a sense
  of accomplishment.

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Critical Thinking

• Review the traits of good mental and emotional
  health described at the beginning of the lesson.
  Which of these traits do you think is most
  important, and why?

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Time to test your self-esteem
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Reflect

• What factors do you think have led to the score
  you received on the self-esteem test?
• What do you think you can do differently in the
  future to increase or maintain your score?