1. Mental/Emotional Health

2. What is Health?? Health Wellness Heredity Culture
The combination of your mental/emotional, physical, and social well-being
Wellness
Overall state of well-being or total health.
Heredity
Traits that are passed along biologically from both parents to child
Culture
Beliefs, customs, and behaviors

3. 3 Elements of Health Physical Health Mental/Emotional Health
Social Health

4. Physical Health Parts and systems of your body working together.
If you are physically healthy:
Helps you cope with stress
Have more ENERGY!!
Helps you cope with changes
What can you do to improve or maintain physical health?
Exercise
Eat right
Sleep

5. Mental/emotional health
The way one feels about self, relates with others and meets the demands of daily life.
If you are mentally/emotionally healthy:
You are in touch with your feelings and express them in an appropriate way.
What can you do to improve or maintain your mental/emotional health?
Journal writing
Spending time with family
Talking to trusted friends
Be optimistic
Doing well in school

6. Social health The way one works with others
If you are socially healthy:
You make friends
You keep friends
You cooperate with others (school, work, play, etc)
You communicate! – Verbal vs. Non-verbal
What can you do to improve or maintain your social health?
Communicate!!
Look at people when you communicate.
Be positive – smile a lot!
Have good friends

7. Lifestyle factors Get between 7 & 8 hours of sleep per night.
Eat nutritious food from the various food groups each day.
Refrain from smoking and using tobacco products.
EAT BREAKFAST!
Do minutes of activity every day.
Do not use alcohol or other drugs
Maintain your recommended weight for your height and age.

8. SELF-ESTEEM How one feels about ones self.
Self-loving behavior: a behavior that shows a person believes him/herself to be worthwhile and loveable.
“If you can’t love yourself how in the heck are you going to love somebody else.”
Self-centered behavior: Fulfilling needs and wishes with little regard for any one else.
Self-destructive behavior: behavior in which a person harms him-herself.
How do we build our self-esteem??

9. Developing positive self-esteem
Set goals and make plans to reach them.
Develop a skill or talent.
Make a list of things you do well.
Work to do your best in school.
Be involved in school clubs and community activities.
Develop a trusting relationship with at least one adult.
Choose friends who encourage others to do their best.
Spend time with friends and adults who provide support.
Volunteer to help another person.
Keep a neat appearance.

10. STRESS Definition: It depends on how you react to it! Eustress
The body’s response to a demand
It depends on how you react to it!
Eustress
When stress results from something good and you react in a positive manner. “Positive stress”
Provides energy and motivation
Makes you more creative, alert, assertive & dedicated to a task
Makes you feel good about yourself
Distress
When stress is caused by something bad or if you react in a negative manner. “Negative stress”
Interferes with schoolwork, home life, relationships with peers.
Leads to health problems

11. Situations that cause stress
stressors
Situations that cause stress
Family relationships
School work
Peer groups
Fatigue
Discrimination
Injury
Sickness
ETC.
HOW WILL YOU REACT?

12. Physical reactions to stress
REACTING TO STRESS
Physical reactions to stress
Fight-or-flight response
Natural protective mode of your body
Adrenaline
Chemical that gives you energy to perform physical acts in an emergency.
Stress causes body functions to change
Blood circulation increases
Nutrients (energy) in the blood increases.
Muscles are strengthened
Breathing becomes more rapid to provide more oxygen
Senses become more alert. e.g. pupils dilate to sharpen vision.

13. The body’s response to stress

15. Stress management Develop resistance to stress
Get fit!
Get enough sleep
Develop a good nutritional diet
Stay away from sugar and caffeine
Develop strategies to reduce stress
Don’t sweat the small stuff!
Set goals
Practice time management

16. Develop positive coping strategies
Stress management
Develop positive coping strategies
Practice self-talk
“Is it worth it?”
“Getting angry never solves anything.”
“Don’t do something you’ll regret.”
Seek temporary relief
Exercise, yoga, daydreaming, etc.
Recognize symptoms of stress
Identify stressful situations
Support groups are helpful
Parents, friends, teachers, coaches, counselors, etc.
Progressive relaxation
“Untense” your muscles

17. Stress management Negative Coping Techniques Being overemotional
Fighting
“It’s not my fault”
Blurting out negative statements
Impatience
Avoidance
Being afraid to talk it out
Shyness
Not volunteering
Avoid speaking in front of people
Drugs and alcohol
Causes mental and physical problems
Habit forming
Lose efficiency and motivation
Only covers up stress; the problem is still there.

18. For each of the following stressful situations, find out if this is Eustress or Distress. What types of stressors you think can cause this stress. What are 2 positive coping strategies and 2 negative coping strategies related to this specific stress? How would you handle this stressful situations?

19. 1) You and your family are moving away from home because one of your parents got a fantastic new job on the east coast. You have to move within the month and it is your Freshman year of high school.

20. 2) You have an older sibling and they just get engaged and want you to be their best man or bridesmaid.

21. 3) You and your two best friends are in turmoil
3) You and your two best friends are in turmoil. One of them is mad at the other because they decided to hang out with a different group from a class instead of hanging out with you both. You don’t mind but your other friend is super mad over it. They aren’t talking to each other and are looking to you to mend things.

22. 4) Grade checks just came in for your sport and you have a 64 percent in your class. Your coach tells you if you don’t get your grades up in 3 days you are not going to be able to play in the championship game.

23. 5) Even though you aren’t 18, you won 25,000$ in the lottery
5) Even though you aren’t 18, you won 25,000$ in the lottery. Your parents want you to think about putting the money towards something good, you don’t know what you want to do because your friends all think you should just go on a shopping spree and spend it all.