1. Lesson 1: Developing your self esteem
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Lesson 1: Developing your self esteem

2. Good mental and emotional health helps you develop healthy self-esteem.

3. What is Mental and Emotional Health?
Mental and emotional health helps you function effectively each day.
Do you see yourself in a positive way? Are you able to handle challenges and setbacks well? These are signs of mental and emotional health.

4. What Is Mental and Emotional Health?
Having good mental/emotional health is an important part of your total health.
mental/emotional health
The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life

5. The Importance of Mental and Emotional Health
Mentally healthy people are, in general:
happy.
confident.
comfortable spending time alone or with others.
flexible.
able to cope with a wide variety of feelings and situations.

6. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Sense of Belonging
Feeling close to people provides you with support.
Recognizing that you have value helps you set and reach goals.
Sense of Purpose
Seeing the bright side increases your chances of success.
Positive Outlook
Being confident promotes your sense of independence.
Self-Sufficiency
Having healthy self-esteem helps you recover from difficulties.
Healthy Self-Esteem

7. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Mentally and emotionally healthy people are resilient.
Resilient
Having the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

8. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Close friends encourage one another.

9. Self-Esteem
Healthy self-esteem is necessary for good mental/emotional health.
Having good self-esteem affects your overall attitude and the health choices you make.

10. Self-Esteem
Self-esteem influences the other characteristics of good mental health.
Self-esteem
How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

11. Self-Esteem Trying new challenges can raise your sense of competence.
Having enough skills to do something

12. How You Develop Self-Esteem
Self-talk, the encouragement or criticism that you give yourself, can affect your self-esteem. Replace negative thoughts with positive self-talk to strengthen your self-esteem.

13. Benefits of Healthy Self-Esteem
Healthy Self-Esteem Helps You:
feel proud of yourself and your abilities, skills, and accomplishments.
have the confidence to confront challenges and overcome them.
have the confidence to try new things.

14. Improving Your Self-Esteem
You can improve your self-esteem and your overall mental and emotional health.
You can control many things that affect your self-esteem.

15. Improving Your Self-Esteem
Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem.
Choose friends who value and respect you.
Focus on positive aspects about yourself.
Replace negative self-talk with supportive self-talk.
Work toward accomplishments rather than perfection.
Consider your mistakes learning opportunities.
Try new activities to discover your talents.

16. Improving Your Self-Esteem
Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem.
Write down your goals and the steps to achieving them.
Exercise regularly to feel more energized.
Volunteer your time to help someone.
Accept the things you can’t change.
Focus your energy on changing the things you can change.

17. Developing Self-Awareness
Understanding your needs and meeting them in healthy ways will help you reach your highest potential.
As infants, we rely on others to meet our basic needs. As we grow, our needs become more complex.

18. Developing Self-Awareness
The psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory called the hierarchy of needs that seeks to explain human development and motivation.
Hierarchy of needs
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 to reach your highest potential

19. What 5 things do you need most in life
What 5 things do you need most in life? Discuss with your group what is most important
Brainstorm

21. Developing Self-Awareness
Maslow’s hierarchy shows that once our basic physical and safety needs are met, we become interested in meeting these needs:
The need to reach our potential or to achieve self actualization.
The need to belong and be loved.
The need to be valued and recognized.

22. Developing Self-Awareness
The fifth level of Maslow’s hierarchy is reaching potential, or achieving self-actualization.
Self-actualization
To strive to be the best you can

23. Developing Self-Awareness
As your self-awareness grows, you can begin to take more control of your personal growth. Reaching out to others can help you grow by developing deeper relationships and a stronger support group.

24. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List the characteristics of good mental/emotional health.
Sense of belonging, sense of purpose, positive outlook, self-sufficiency, healthy self-esteem

25. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the term self-esteem.
Self-esteem is how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

26. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify the five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
Physical needs, safety needs, need to belong, need to achieve and be recognized, need to reach potential

27. Lesson 2: Developing personal identity and character
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Lesson 2: Developing personal identity and character

28. Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.

29. personal identity
role model
personality
character
integrity
constructive criticism

30. Your Personal Identity
Your personal identity describes who you are.
Identity development is one of the most important tasks you will accomplish during your teen years.

31. Your Personal Identity
Your personal identity depends a lot on your age and circumstances.
Personal identity
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual

32. Influences on Personal Identity
How Identity Forms
Influences on Personal Identity 
Likes and Dislikes 
Relationships 
Experiences 
Opinions 
Values 
Interests 
Occupational Goals 
Relationship Experiences

33. How Identity Forms
You may identify a role model who you look up to and want to be like.
Role model
Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you

34. Aspects of Identity
Your personality sets you apart from other people and determines how you will react in certain situations.
Personality
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique

35. The Importance of Good Character
Character plays a significant role in your decisions, actions, and behavior.
Good character is an outward expression of inner values and is a vital part of healthy identity.

36. The Importance of Good Character
A person of good character demonstrates core ethical values, such as responsibility, honesty, and respect.
Character
The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

37. Traits of Good Character
Six Traits of Good Character
Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

38. Traits of Good Character
By demonstrating the traits of good character consistently in your actions and behaviors, you show others that you have integrity.
Integrity
A firm observance of core ethical values.

39. Traits of Good Character
Courtesy is a sign of respect.

40. Working Toward a Positive Identity
You can develop a healthy identity.
Your family and your circumstances influence your identity, but as you mature, you control who you become.

41. Working Toward a Positive Identity
Tips for Promoting a Healthy Identity
List your skills and strengths.
Surround yourself with positive, supportive people.
Find something that you love to do, and do it frequently.
Stop making life a contest.
Help someone else.

42. Recognize Your Strengths and Weaknesses
To begin to understand your identity:
Analyze your strengths and weaknesses.
Be proud of yourself and your strengths.
Be aware of your weaknesses and set realistic goals to improve.

43. Demonstrate Positive Values
Practicing good character is not always easy, but it helps you build a positive identity. Take actions that demonstrate positive values to build character and a positive identity.

44. Develop a Purpose in Your Life
A sense of purpose helps you set goals and work to achieve them. A sense of purpose also provides you with a framework to build a healthy identity

45. Form Meaningful Relationships
Relationships provide a support system that can help you build confidence and develop a sense of security and belonging.

46. Form Meaningful Relationships
Within a meaningful relationship, family, friends or others may give you constructive criticism.
Constructive criticism
Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement

47. Form Meaningful Relationships
This football player relies on his coach for honest feedback.
Feedback is constructive criticism.

48. Avoid Unhealthful High-Risk Behaviors
Take healthful risks that challenge you to develop skills and to mature in new ways.
Avoid These High Risk Behaviors
Using Tobacco
Using Alcohol and Other Drugs
Reckless Driving
Joining a Gang

49. Contribute to the Community
Your community is your extended support system. It provides services and resources to meet many of your needs.

50. Contribute to the Community
Giving back to the community improves the quality of people’s lives, gives you a sense of accomplishment and belonging, and increases your self-esteem.

51. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the term personal identity.
Personal identity is your sense of self as a unique individual.

52. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify the six traits of good character.
Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizenship

53. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Explain the benefit of constructive criticism.
Constructive criticism helps you see things objectively when emotions or your perspective could cloud your thinking.

54. Lesson 3: Expressing emotions in healthful ways
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Lesson 3: Expressing emotions in healthful ways

55. Managing your emotions allows you to express them in healthful ways.

56. Understanding Your Emotions
Recognizing and acknowledging your emotions is a sign of good mental and emotional health.
How you respond to your emotions can affect your mental/emotional, physical, and social health.

57. Understanding Your Emotions
Learning to recognize your emotions and to understand their effects on you will help you learn to manage them in healthful ways.
Emotions
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react

58. Understanding Your Emotions
Changes during puberty are caused by hormones.
Hormones
Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells

59. Understanding Your Emotions
Hormones can make you feel as if your emotions are swinging from one extreme to another.

60. Understanding Your Emotions
Happiness
Sadness
Common Emotions
Anger
Love
Guilt
Fear

61. Understanding Your Emotions
Hostility is a form of anger that can hurt others, as well as the hostile person.
Hostility
The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior

62. Managing Your Emotions
Knowing how to recognize your emotions can help you manage them in healthful ways.
Learning to express emotions in a healthful way will not only help you cope with emotional upsets, but also helps those around you to better handle their emotions.

63. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
Emotions are neither good nor bad. The way you express your emotions, however, can produce good or bad consequences.

64. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
Feeling bad, or emotional, when things happen in your life is normal. These feelings can be managed.

65. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
One example of expressing empathy is supporting a friend who is going through a difficult time.
Empathy
The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels

66. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
To help you recognize your emotions and express them in positive ways, ask yourself these questions:
Why do I feel the way I do about this event?
Will this event matter later on in my life?
Why should I wait before responding?
What can I do to feel better?
Who can I ask to help me deal with my negative feelings?

67. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
Healthful expression of feelings lets you enjoy life more.

68. Responding to Difficult Emotions
Reducing the Intensity of Emotions
Take several deep breaths.
Relax your muscles.
Get away from the situation until you calm down.
Analyze your emotions by writing about them in a private journal.

69. Responding to Difficult Emotions
Sometimes you may use defense mechanisms unconsciously as a way to protect yourself from intense emotional pain.
Defense mechanisms
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations

70. Responding to Difficult Emotions
Common Defense Mechanisms
Involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind.
Repression
Regression
Returning to behaviors characteristic of a younger age, rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner.
Denial
Unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others.
Projection
Attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group.
Consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind.
Suppression
Making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it.
Rationalization
Making up for weaknesses and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts.
Compensation

71. Handling Fear
You can overcome some fears by recognizing that you’re afraid and figuring out what is causing this fear. If you’re unable to control your fears, consider seeking the help of a mental health professional.

72. Dealing with Guilt
Guilt is a very destructive emotion that can harm your self-esteem.

73. Dealing with Guilt If you feel guilty about something:
Look at the circumstances realistically and honestly.
Admitting a mistake can help manage feelings of guilt.
Sometimes you will feel guilt about situations that are out of your control.

74. Managing Anger
Anger is one of the most difficult emotions to handle. As with guilt, it is best to figure out what is causing your anger, and then deal with it in a healthy way.

75. Managing Anger
When you first feel anger building up inside you, try to calm down. If this doesn’t work, physically remove yourself from the situation.

76. Managing Anger Strategies for Managing Anger Do something to relax.
Listen to soothing music, read a book, or imagine sitting on a beach or walking through the woods.
Channel your energy in a different direction.
Use the energy generated by your anger to do something positive. Take a walk, play the piano or guitar, or write your feelings down in a private journal.
Talk with someone you trust.
Share your thoughts and feelings with a trusted friend or family member. The listener may be able to give you some tips on how to deal with the situation.

77. Managing Anger
Physical activity is a healthy way to use the energy that can build up from anger.

78. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are emotions? How can emotions affect your behavior?
Emotions are signals that tell your mind and body how to react.

79. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are five common defense mechanisms?
Any five: Repression, suppression, rationalization, regression, denial, compensation, projection

80. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List three strategies for handling anger in a healthful way.
Do something to relax, channel your energy in a different direction, talk to someone you trust