1. Setting Emotional Health Goals

2. Skills for Developing Good Emotional Health Communicating emotions appropriately. Developing healthy, supportive relationships with peers and adults. Knowing how to cope with stressful situations. Setting short-term and long-term goals and taking action to achieve them. Advocating for health and helping others.

3. How can setting goals and achieving them help improve your emotional health?

4. Explain Learning how to set realistic short-term and long-term goals is a very important strategy in developing good emotional health. There are some specific steps to follow to be successful in setting and achieving a goal.

5. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 1.Identify an emotional health characteristic you’d like to strengthen.  Building a better relationship with your mother.

6. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 2.Write a specific, measureable goal to help strengthen this characteristic.  By the end of the month, I will have a positive conversation with my mom at least 15 minutes each day.

7. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 3.Identify specific steps to accomplish your goals  Identify 3 things each day I want to talk to my mom about.  Find time to talk each day.  Prepare by planning what to share and what to ask.

8. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 4. Create a timeline to accomplish your goal.  Week 1—write down topics to discuss and prepare.  Week 2—talk 5 minutes a day with mom. Write down new ideas.  Week 3—talk 10 minutes a day with my mom. Write down new ideas.  Week 4—talk 15 minutes a day with my mom. Write down new ideas.

9. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 5.Who can help you achieve your goal?  Ask your friends what they talk to their moms about. Ask your health teacher for advice about how to approach your mom. Ask a sibling for help.

10. Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 6.Evaluate your progress toward your goal.  Did you take time to think about what you wanted to talk about? Was your goal realistic?  How were your conversations with your mom?  What can be done to improve them?  How has your emotional health improved as a result of working toward this goal?

11. Take out your “Strengthening My Emotional Health” worksheet from awhile ago. Think about a emotional health characteristic you most want to improve.

12. Take out “Goal Setting: Achieving Emotional Health” Complete this worksheet. When you are done. Share your plans with a partner.