1. Mental and Emotional Health
Chapter 5
Mental and Emotional Health
Lesson 1
What Is Mental and Emotional Health?
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2. In this lesson, you will be able to
identify the signs of mental and emotional health.
explain the three most important influences on your personality.
describe resilience and how it affects mental and emotional health.
demonstrate communication skills by showing empathy to others through active listening.

3. mental and emotional health
The ability to handle the stresses and changes of everyday life in a reasonable way
A combination of your feelings, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities and habits
personality
Identifying with and sharing another person’s feelings
empathy
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resilience
The ability to recover from problems or loss

4. Understanding Mental and Emotional Health
When you have mental and emotional health, you get along well with others, have a positive outlook on life, and a strong interest in school.
problems don’t get you down for long
When you have mental and emotional health, problems don’t get you down for long.
mental and emotional health The ability to handle the stress and changes of everyday life in a reasonable way

5. Where Mental and Emotional Health Begins
If the physical needs of food, water, rest, and a sense of safety are not met, it can negatively affect your mental and emotional health.
Social needs also play an important role in your mental and emotional health.
Social needs include the need to give and receive love, to feel recognized, and to feel connected to people you can trust.
Social needs include the need to give and receive love, to feel recognized, and to feel connected to people you can trust.

6. In the next few years, you will learn a lot about your personality.
Accepting Who You Are
You need to recognize your strengths and work on improving your weaknesses.
In the next few years, you will learn a lot about your personality.
personality A combination of your likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities, and habits

7. Influences on Your Personality
Heredity
Environment
Behavior
Heredity:
Heredity is the passing of biological traits from parents to children.
You have no control over what traits you received from your parents.
Environment:
Your environment is your family and friends, your neighborhood, your school, and even the climate where you live.
Your personality might have turned out differently if you had been raised in a different family.
Behavior:
Your behavior is how you act.
Of all the influences, you have the most control over how you act.
The actions you choose to take show how you feel about yourself and others.
Your choices reflect your core ethical values and can help you improve your mental and emotional health.
Your personality might have turned out differently if you had been raised in a different family.
You have no control over what traits you received from your parents.
Your behavior is how you act.

8. Influences on Your Personality
Behavior
Behavior:
Your behavior is how you act.
You have the most control over how you act.
The actions you choose to take show how you feel about yourself and others.
Your choices reflect your core ethical values and can help you improve your mental and emotional health.

9. Signs of Mental and Emotional Health
You can work to improve your mental and emotional health.
Tips for building strong mental and emotional health include:
Have a good attitude and a positive outlook.
Recognize your strengths and work on your weaknesses.
Set realistic goals.
Act responsibly.
Mental and emotional health often changes over time. You can work to improve your mental and emotional health. When your inner qualities are strong, your outer life shows it.

10. Signs of Mental and Emotional Health
Tips for building strong mental and emotional health include:
Be able to relax and have fun alone or in a group.
Be aware of your feelings and express them in healthy ways.
Accept constructive feedback without getting angry.
When your inner qualities are strong, your outer life shows it.
Constructive feedback is the message people give you about yourself.
Constructive feedback is the message people give you about yourself.

11. Signs of Mental and Emotional Health
Tips for building strong mental and emotional health include:
Practice empathy.
Giving Support
to others when
it is needed
empathy Identifying with and sharing another person’s feelings

12. How to Build Resilience
Teens with resilience show persistence, flexibility, and strong self-confidence.
Resilience is like a rubber band. You can stretch it but it always snaps back into shape
resilience The ability to recover from problems or loss
Resilience is like a rubber band. You can stretch it but it always snaps back into shape.
Most resilient teens believe they can do something about their problems.

13. How to Build Resilience
Make positive choices for yourself.
Strengthen your refusal skills.
Take part in school activities that you feel can make a difference for you or others.
Build strong relationships with family and friends.

14. What I Learned Vocabulary What is personality? Lesson 1 Review
Personality is a combination of feelings, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities, and habits
Personality is a combination of feelings, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities, and habits

15. Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
List What are three ways to build mental and emotional health?
Any three: Have a good attitude and positive outlook; recognize strengths and work on weaknesses; set realistic goals; act responsibly; relax and have fun; express feelings in healthy ways; show empathy
Any three: Have a good attitude and positive outlook; recognize strengths and work on weaknesses; set realistic goals; act responsibly; relax and have fun; express feelings in healthy ways; show empathy

16. Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
Name What is one environmental influence on your personality?
Any one: family, friends, neighborhood, school, climate
Any one: family, friends, neighborhood, school, climate

17. Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
Identify What are two social needs that influence mental/emotional health?
Any two: the need to give and receive love, the need to feel recognized, the need to feel connected to people you can trust
Any two: the need to give and receive love, the need to feel recognized, the need to feel connected to people you can trust

18. Lesson 1 Review
What I Learned
Explain What are three ways a person might build resilience?
Any three: make positive choices, use refusal skills, take part in school activities, get support
Any three: make positive choices, use refusal skills, take part in school activities, get support

19. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Evaluate Why do you think that showing empathy is a sign of mental/emotional health?
It means that you care about others.
It means that you care about others.

20. Lesson 1 Review
Thinking Critically
Infer Why might your mental and emotional health suffer if you don’t practice healthful eating?
Poor eating habits negatively affect physical health which influences the health triangle.
Poor eating habits negatively affect physical health which influences the health triangle.

21. Mental and Emotional Health
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Chapter 5
Mental and Emotional Health
Lesson 1
What Is Mental and Emotional Health?
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