1. Mental / Emotional Health

2. Do Now:
If you were to use five adjectives to label the type of person you are what would they be. In your journal, take five minutes to think of those five adjectives and write them down.
Does your thoughts paint a positive or negative picture of yourself.

3. Mental Health What is Mental Health?
Generally having a positive outlook, being comfortable with yourself and others, and being able to meet life’s challenges and demands.
Being Mentally Healthy means to be able to cope, adapt, and thrive on many levels.
Demonstrates strong values and responsible behaviors.

4. Characteristics of good Mental Health
Positive Self-Esteem
Your Feelings of Confidence
Sense of Belonging
Promotes Comfort and assurance
Sense of Purpose
Achieving goals and engaging in activities that are personally rewarding
Positive Outlook
Reduces stress and increase your energy level
Autonomy
Promotes a sense of independence

5. Personality What is Personality? What influences our personality
The behaviors, attitudes, feelings and ways of thinking that make you an individual.
What influences our personality
Heredity
Environment
Family (modeling), Friends (peer group), Culture
Personality & Behavior

6. Self Esteem
The confidence and worth that you feel about yourself– is directly related to your general level of wellness
Benefits of High Self Esteem?
Risks of Low Self Esteem?

7. Development of Self Esteem
How is Self Esteem Formed?
Childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood
Feed-back
Messages from others that indicate who they think you are or what they think you are like.
Self- Talk
Positive self-talk
Negative Self Talk

8. Developing a Positive Identity
What is your sense of yourself as a unique individual
Composed of :
interests
Likes & dislikes
Talents & abilities
Values & beliefs
Goals

9. Human needs
Abraham Mazlow’s Hierarchy of Needs

10. Do Now
Using your adjective that you came up with in the beginning of class to describe yourself I want you to create a poster representing yourself that identifies your own personality and the influences on it.

11. Signs of good mental Health
Realistic about their strengths and weaknesses
Responsible for their behavior
Avoids high risk behaviors
Open minded /flexible
Fun loving and able to relax with others and alone
Respects their own and others’ needs
Respects everyone’s values as a human being
Able to express their emotions
Invest time and energy into nourishing relationships
Puts talents and abilities to good use
View change as a challenge and an oportunity