1. Understanding Emotions
Mental Health
Understanding Emotions

2. Personality Nature Vs Nurture Heredity Environment
What has the greatest influence?
Nature – traits your born with
Nurture – Environment your raised in
Heredity
Environment
Family
Modeling
Friends
Peer Group
Culture

3. Stages of Personality Development
Develop trust – birth -18 months
Learn to be independent – 18m – 3 years
Take initiative – 3 -6yrs
Develop Skills – 6-12 yrs
Search for Identity – 12 – 20 yrs
Identity –sense if self
Establish Intimacy – yrs
Create & Nurture – yrs
Look back w/Acceptance – 65 +

4. Self Esteem
The confidence and worth that you feel about yourself– is directly related to your general level of wellness
How is Self Esteem Formed?
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

5. Esteem Continued Benefits of high Self esteem Risks of Low Self Esteem
What are they?
Risks of Low Self Esteem
How Self- Esteem Develops
Childhood
Adolescence
Adulthood

6. Improving your self esteem
Make a list of strengths and weakness
Set ambitious, but realistic goals
Don’t be to hard on yourself
Rely on your values
Learn to accept accomplishments
Looks beyond your own concerns
Do not focus too much on appearance.

7. Emotions What Are Our Emotions?
Signals that tell your mind and boy how to react.
What are some of our most common emotions?
What are some of the changes you body may go through when feeling certain emotions?
Give an example of a scenario and the emotion that relates
Love, Empathy, Fear, Anger, & Guilt

9. Phobias Phobia is and Irrational Fear that we have.
What are some of your Phobias?

10. Common Phobias
Hematophobia
Fear of blood

11. Ailurophobia
Fear of Cats

12. Demophobia
Fear of Crowds

13. Nyctophobia
Fear of the Dark

14. Belonephobia
Fear of needles

15. Ophidiophobia

16. arachnophobia

17. Reacting to our Emotions
Defense Mechanisms
What are Defense Mechanisms?
Strategies used to deal with strong or stressful emotions and situations.
How do we develop our defense mechanisms?
What are some of the common Defense Mechanisms?

18. Common Defense Mechanisms
Repression
Suppression
Rationalization
Regression
Denial
Compensation
Projection
Idealization

19. Activity
As a group (Table or Row) you will be given a defense mechanism or two. It is up to the group to discuss and rationalize an example of your given defense mechanism.
Page 204 in your book will help you define your defense mechanisms so you can develop your example.