1. Understanding Emotions
What emotion are you experiencing right now?
Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond in a healthy way.

2. Lesson Objectives In this lesson, you’ll learn to:
Analyze how emotions influence your overall health.
Appraise the significance of changes occurring during adolescence.
Explore ways to demonstrate empathy toward others.
Demonstrate communication skills in building and maintaining healthy relationships.

3. Understanding Your Emotions
What Are Emotions?
Emotions are your responses to certain thoughts and events.
Communicating emotions effectively is key to building and maintaining healthy relationships.

4. Understanding Your Emotions
Effects of Emotions on Your Health Triangle
Joy can prompt the release of brain chemicals that cause you to experience warmth and a sense of well-being.
Feeling this way promotes mental/emotional health and positively influences your relationships and thus your social health.
Joy
Fear
Anger

5. Identifying Your Emotions
Effects of Hormones on Emotions
The many changes brought on by hormones during puberty may cause you to swing quickly between extreme emotions.
Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond in a healthy way.

6. Identifying Your Emotions
Happiness
Happiness can be described as being satisfied or feeling positive.
When you are happy, you usually feel energetic, creative, and sociable.

7. Identifying Your Emotions
Sadness
Sadness is a normal, healthy reaction to difficult events.
Feelings of sadness may be mild and fleeting, or they may be deep and long-lasting.
When you are sad, you may feel easily discouraged and have less energy.

8. Identifying Your Emotions
Love
Love involves:
Strong affection.
Deep concern.
Supporting the growth and individual needs of another person.
Respecting that person’s boundaries and values.

9. Identifying Your Emotions
Empathy
When you feel empathy, you feel connected to another person’s emotions.
Demonstrating empathy can help build and maintain your relationships.
An empathetic person listens attentively and communicates understanding toward others.

10. Identifying Your Emotions
Fear
Feelings of fear can increase your alertness and help you escape from potentially harmful situations.
However, fear that results from an imagined threat can prevent people from leading normal lives.
This type of fear is called a phobia and requires professional help.
Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders

11. Identifying Your Emotions
Guilt
Guilt often results from acting against one’s values or from failing to act when action might have brought about a better outcome.
Being able to recognize when you are not responsible for a negative outcome will save you from needless guilt.
Guilt can act as your conscience and motivate positive changes in behavior.

12. Identifying Your Emotions
Anger
Anger is a common reaction to being emotionally hurt or physically harmed.
When anger isn’t handled in constructive ways, it can result in violence.
Hostility can be particularly damaging, not only to others but also to the hostile person.

13. Quick Review
Choose the most appropriate option.
Q. Anger sometimes results in _______, which can damage a relationship.
happiness
violence
empathy
sadness

14. Quick Review - Answer
A. Anger sometimes results in violence, which can damage a relationship.
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15. Q. List seven basic emotions.
Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. List seven basic emotions.
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16. A. Seven basic emotions are:
Quick Review - Answer
A. Seven basic emotions are:
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Empathy
Fear
Guilt
Anger
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17. Q. How might guilty feelings lead to positive results?
Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given below.
Q. How might guilty feelings lead to positive results?
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18. Quick Review - Answer
A. Guilt can sometimes act as one’s conscience and motivate positive changes in behavior. In this way guilty feelings might sometimes lead to positive results.
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19. Quick Review Provide a suitable description.
List three situations that may cause a teen to feel anger.
Then, explain how each of these situations can be dealt with
in healthful ways.

20. Understanding Your Emotions
What Are Emotions?
Emotions are your responses to certain thoughts and events.
Communicating emotions effectively is key to building and maintaining healthy relationships.
An emotion is a signal that tells your body and mind how to react.

21. Identifying Your Emotions
Effects of Hormones on Emotions
The many changes brought on by hormones during puberty may cause you to swing quickly between extreme emotions.
Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond in a healthy way.
A hormone is a chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.

22. Identifying Your Emotions
Empathy
When you feel empathy, you feel connected to another person’s emotions.
Demonstrating empathy can help build and maintain your relationships.
An empathetic person listens attentively and communicates understanding toward others.
Empathy is the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.

23. Identifying Your Emotions
Anger
Anger is a common reaction to being emotionally hurt or physically harmed.
When anger isn’t handled in constructive ways, it can result in violence.
Hostility can be particularly damaging, not only to others but also to the hostile person.
Hostility refers to the intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.

24. Understanding Your Emotions
Effects of Emotions on Your Health Triangle
Fear can trigger physical changes, including increased perspiration, an increase in heart rate, and a tightening of muscles.
This “fight-or-flight” response enables you to defend yourself or flee the scene.
Joy
Fear
Anger

25. Understanding Your Emotions
Effects of Emotions on Your Health Triangle
Strong emotions like anger can cause both physical and mental responses, such as an increase in heart rate and feelings of distress.
Inappropriate responses, such as lashing out, can be harmful to you or to people around you.
Joy
Fear
Anger

26. Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! Anger sometimes results in violence, which can damage a relationship.
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27. Quick Review - Answer
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