1. Mental Health

2. Definition of mental health
Having a positive outlook, being comfortable with yourself and others, and being able to meet lifes challenges and demands.

3. Five signs of good mental health
Are realistic about strengths and weaknesses
Are responsible for personal behavior
Express emotions appropriately
Avoid high-risk behaviors
Invest time and energy into good activities

4. Roadblocks to mental health
All-or-nothing thinking
Expecting the worst in others or yourself
Being a perfectionist
Letting your actions or works betray your values

5. Understand how someone
Emotions
Empathy
Understand how someone
Else feels
Love
Affection,
concern and respect
Fear
Physical symptoms for
Mind problems
Anger
Reaction to
Being hurt
Guilt
When you think
You have done
Something wrong

6. Common defense mechanisms
Compensation -making up for weakness by hard work
Daydreaming - escaping reality with your mind
Denial - Refusing to believe something
Displacement - taking an emotion out on the wrong person
Rationalization - making excuses rather then taking responsibility
Regression - movement of maturity
Repression - pulling memories to the back of the mind
Somatization - physical symptoms for mental problem

7. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Self-fulfilling
Best you can be
Aesthetic
Need to know and explore
Emotional
Need to belong and be loved
Need to achieve
Physical
Hunger, thirst, sleep, safety, and security

9. Self- esteem
Definition - how you feel about yourself

10. How does self-esteem development
Parents influence
Peer influence
Life experience

11. What are four ways to raise self-esteem?
Use I statements
Think positive
Do not surround yourself with negative people
Reach for your goals

12. Self-disclosure
Telling someone about your thoughts and feelings

13. Media TV
Magazines
Billboards
Newspaper
Music
Poems
Books

14. Stress
Anything that causes a stress response.

15. Stress response
Alarm - “fight or flight” - provoked by the nervous and endocrine systems
Eye sight improves
Hearing improves
Release of Adrenaline
Heart rate increases
Breathing gets shallow and quick

16. Stress Response Continued
Resistance
Completion of activity (fighting or running)
Stress hormones are released from the body
Fatigue
Physical, psychological, physiological exhaustion

17. Type A personality
A person that is always on the go, is in a hurry, and may be uptight. Is more prone to heart disease and cancer

18. Laid back, little stress, uncaring attitude
Type B personality
Laid back, little stress, uncaring attitude

19. Disorders Caused by Stress
Fatigue
Heart Disease
Cold/Flu
Hypertension
Cancer

20. Stress management techniques
Planning - Make sure you have things planed and written down
Relaxation - Autogenic training and progressive relaxation
Time management - not scheduling yourself so much that you are pulled in to many directions
Rechanneling energy - yoga and meditation (religion)
Support - always have people who you can count on to help with rough times

21. Five stages in the acceptance of death
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

22. Vocabulary
Living will - A signed contract to state that a person does not want to live on machines
Hospice - A peaceful place to live for those terminally ill until they pass away
Will - signed agreement about who will get possessions
Cremation - Alternative to burial, burn body to ashes

23. Suicide video clip

24. What is suicide? When someone takes there own life. Warning signs
Personality changes
Giving away possessions
Depressed mood
Withdraw from family or friends
Loss of interest in “normal” activities
Who can be helpful in a crisis? School counselor, teacher, parent, police

25. Risk Factors Depression Previous suicide attempt Family disruption
Psychiatric illness
Recent losses
Social isolation
Drug or alcohol abuse
Violence in the home

26. Psychosocial Factors Divorce Change in friends Change in activities
Moving
Dealing with death or personal tragedy

27. Mental and Emotional Disorders

28. Anxiety Disorders
FEAR!

29. Anxiety Disorders
General anxiety disorders: feelings of anxiety with physical symptoms such as perspiration and increased heart rate
Phobia - persistent fear of something
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - persistent recurring thoughts with the need to repeat some actions
Panic Disorder - Intense feeling of terror without cause

30. Dissociate Disorders - personality changed
Multiple personality - having two or more personalities
Amnesia - loss of memory

31. Mood disorders
Depression - Feeling of sadness, loneliness and hopelessness
Bipolar (manic depression)- exaggerated feeling of euphoria and depression

32. Schizophrenia
Hallucinations, hearing voices that are often mean, seeing things that are not there