1. ACHIEVING GOOD MENTAL HEALTH
Chapter seven
ACHIEVING GOOD MENTAL HEALTH

2. LESSON ONE
YOUR MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

3. Reflect on the three components of health
Physical
Mental/emotional
Social
DISCUSS WITH A PERSON SITTING NEXT TO YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH.

4. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Positive Self-Esteem
Confidence
Good Self-Esteem
Accept Challenges
Take failure in stride
Sense of Belonging
Emotional Attachment to others within your circle
Promotes Stability
Makes you feel part of a community
Sense of Purpose
Enables you to set goals
Achieve Goals
Engage in activities that are personally rewarding

5. Mental/ Emotional characteristics
Positive Outlook
See the bright side
Have hope about life
Reduce in the level of stress
Increase your energy level
Increase success
Autonomy
Confidence to make responsible decisions
Confidence to make safe decisions
Promotes self-assurance
Sense of independence

6. Mental/emotional health
Mental/Emotional Health is the ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life.

7. Figure 7.3 page 171
Please read Figure 7.1 signs of good mental/emotional health.
Which of these characteristics might seem difficult for an individual to control? Why?
What can teens do to develop those characteristics?
How can the actions and attitudes of parents positively affect the self-esteem of children?
How important are the actions and attitudes of peers to the self-esteem of teens?

8. A pyramid of needs
Hierarchy of needs is a ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need for reaching your highest potential.

11. Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow is considered one of the founders of humanistic psychology.
Maslow studied lives and activities of individuals he considered both successful and productive.
Read Figure 7.2 page 172

12. PHYSICAL NEEDS Level One
Survival needs such as food, water, sleep, and shelter
Many people take for granted that basic needs must be meet.
People who are denied basic needs become physically weak and may develop illness.

13. NEED FOR SAFETY Level two Protecting yourself against physical harm.
Protecting your personality in a psychological manner
Safety of a familiar place
Safety of people within your circle

14. Need to be loved and to belong
Level three
Everyone needs to be loved and to give love to others
Human are social beings and need to belong to a group
Community
Family
Circle of friends
Belonging can increase your self confidence
Strengthen your mental/emotional health

15. NEED TO BE VALUED AND RECOGNIZED
Level Four
People need to be appreciated
Family
Friends
Peers
Volunteer
Participate in a school activity
Participate in an out of school activity
When you do something well
Respect
Feeling of self-worth

16. Need to reach your potential
Level five
Set goals for your future
Recognize your potential
Learn discipline to reach your goal
Have goals that motivate you
Have goals that inspire you

17. Self-actualization
Self-Actualization the striving to become the best you can be.

18. Meeting your needs
The way you choose to meet your needs affects your mental/emotional health.
Positive Choices
Loving / caring relationships
Maintaining respectful relationships
Negative choices
Gangs
Sexual activity
Drugs
Alcohol
Lack of respect for others

19. UNDERSTANDING YOUR PERSONALITY
Personality is a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.
Individual emotional make-up
Attitudes
Thoughts
Behaviors
Heredity Influences
Environment Influences

20. Question
Which behaviors can help you strengthen and or establish healthy relationships?
Which behaviors might pose a risk to mental and emotional health or to other aspects of health? Why?

21. Personality and heredity
Physical traits: hair and eye color
Determines a person’s basic intellectual abilities
Determines a person’s temperament
Determines a person’s emotional tendencies
May influence risk-taking
May influence talents

23. PERSONALITY AND ENVIRONMENT
Modeling or observing and learning from the behaviors of those around you, sometimes without even thinking about it.
All people that surround your day to day life.
Positive surrounding: Positive mental/emotional health
Negative surrounding: Negative mental/emotional health
Role models
Help shape the person you become
Help shape the way you live your life

24. question How do you think your personality affects your behavior?
How do you think your behavior influences the development of your personality?

25. PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR
How you make decisions
What decisions you make
Whether you recognize the consequences of those decisions
What actions you take can make a difference
Quality of life
Level of physical health
Level of mental/emotional health

26. PROMOTING MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Being mentally and emotionally healthy can promote physical health
Can prevent some diseases
Meeting needs in a healthy way
Can prevent physical harm
Will help strengthen the three sides of the triangle

27. Developing a positive identity
Lesson two
Developing a positive identity

28. PERSONAL IDENTITY Your sense of yourself as a unique individual. Son
Daughter
Football player
Wrestler
Basketball
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29. YOUR PERSONAL IDENTITY
Currently you are developing a strong sense of who you are.
Knowledge gained from experiences will help you see yourself for who you are and want to become.
Pieces of your identity
Your interests
Your likes and dislikes
Your talents and abilities
Your values and beliefs
Your goals

30. YOUR DEVELOPMENTAL ASSETS
Developmental assets are the building blocks of development that help young people grow up as healthy, caring, and responsible individuals.
Figure 7.3 page 179
Support
Empowerment
Boundaries and expectations
Constructive use of time
Commitment to learning
Positive values
Social competencies
Positive identity

31. Developmental assets
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32. QUESTION Do you think teenagers have the benefit of all these assets?
Which of these assets can teens seek out or strengthen on their own? How?
Do you consider any of these assets especially important? If so? Why?

33. Working towards a healthy identity
This process requires both self-acceptance and self-improvement.
Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
Demonstrate Positive Values
Develop a purpose in your life
Form meaningful relationships
Contribute to the community
Avoid unhealthy risk behaviors

34. Self-esteem and positive outlook
Increased self-esteem
Realize you are unique
Realize you are valued
Strong position to take control of their life.
Higher level of mental/emotional health
Never lose hope
Make a plan to address to fix problems
See challenges as opportunities to grow and learn

35. REALISTIC PATTERNS OF THINKING
Look at situations realistically
Constructive criticism
Point out problems
Encourage improvement
Without emotional influences

36. ANALYZING YOUR SELF-TALK
Listen to yourself
Replace constructive messages with constructive criticism
All people make mistakes
Learn from your mistakes and move on!
Tell yourself “Good Job”
Improve your self-esteem
Improve your outlook on life

37. REVIEW
Why do you think developmental assets increase the likelihood that a person will not engage in risk behaviors?
Describe how positive identity and high self- esteem can help you with goal setting, developing relationships, and contributing to your community?

38. UNDERSTANDING YOUR EMOTIONS
LESSON THREE
UNDERSTANDING YOUR EMOTIONS

39. Understanding your emotions
Emotions are signals that tell your mind and body how to react.
It is important to communicate your emotions effectively
Emotions affect all sides of your health triangle.
Joy
Release of brain chemicals
Sense of warmth and belonging
Fear
Fight or flight
Increase heart rate/ feeling of distress/ harm Y/O

40. IDENTIFYING YOUR EMOTIONS
Hormone is a chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.
May cause extreme emotional swings
Elation
Depression
Mixed emotions
It is important to identify how you are feeling
Will help you respond in a healthy way.

41. EMOTIONS Happiness Sadness Love Empathy: ability to imagine
Ability to understand how others feel
Fear
Guilt
Anger
Hostility: intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior

42. REVIEW
Appraise the significance of changes occurring during adolescence: What effects do changing hormone levels have on emotions?
List three situations that may cause a teen to feel anger. Then, explain how each of these situations can be dealt with in healthful ways.
What is the most important concept that you learned in this lesson?

43. LESSON FOUR
MANAGING EMOTIONS

44. DEALING WITH EMOTIONS IN POSITIVE WAYS
You have learned positive and negative ways to express your emotions
Environment
Your experiences
From others
It is important to evaluate strategies for communicating emotions
Your needs
How to practice healthful ways of expression
Negative emotions do not solve problems

45. RESPONDING TO YOUR EMOTIONS
What do you want?
What are you doing?
Do they match?
Look below the surface of your emotion
Look at the big picture in a situation
Think before you act
Use positive feelings to inspire yourself
If a negative feeling does not go away, seek help from a parent, another adult, or a health care professional.

46. MANAGING DIFFICULT EMOTIONS
Can affect your attitude and behavior
Take slow deep breaths
Relax
Walk away and compose yourself
Write in a journal
Talk to a friend or adult

47. DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Defense mechanism are mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Suppression is holding back or restraining.
Provide temporary escape from an unpleasant situation.
Develop strategies for dealing with difficult emotions in healthful ways.
Read figure 7.4 page 190

48. COMMON DEFENSE MECHANISMS
Repression: Involuntary
Suppression: Conscious
Rationalization: Making excuses
Regression: Reverting to behaviors
Denial: Unconscious lack of acknowledgement
Compensation: making up for weaknesses
Projection: Attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group.
Idealization: Seeing someone else as perfect, ideal

49. Defense mechanisms

50. DEALING WITH EMOTIONS Handling fear Dealing with guilt Managing anger
Identify your fear
Analyze the situation
Some fear is natural
Dealing with guilt
Destructive emotion
Face the problem
Address the issue
Managing anger
Understand the source
Address the problem

51. REVIEW
Evaluate the positive and negative effects of various relationships on emotional health: In what ways do peers, family, and friends influence how you express and manage emotions?
Describe the results that may occur when you take time to reflect before responding to a strong emotion.
List three strategies for interpreting, responding to, and communicating an emotion or need in healthful ways.