1. MENTAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH UNIT 2

2. HAVING POSITIVE EMOTIONAL/ EMOTIONAL HEALTH… Means you can manage your emotions in a healthy way & deal with the demands & challenges in your life You can accept yourself & others Feel comfortable spending time alone & with others Able to cope with feelings, emotions, and situations in a positive manner Your emotional/ mental health also affects your social health & physical health… how could your emotional health positively or negatively affect your social or physical health?

3. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE GOOD MENTAL & EMOTIONAL HEALTH? (TURN TO PAGE 1 OF GREEN PACKET)  Sense of belonging: feel close to family members, friends, and other peers  Sense of purpose: feel that you have value & a sense of importance in your life  Positive outlook: finding positives in situations, rather than harping on the negative aspects of life  Self – sufficiency: confidence in yourself to make responsible & safe decisions  Healthy self – esteem: you are able to accept & recover from challenges & failures  Resilient: you are able to recover from difficulty & crisis, without letting it stop you from reaching your goals

4. SELF – ESTEEM… HOW MUCH YOU VALUE, RESPECT, & FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT YOURSELF Having positive self – esteem can help you to make positive life choices, which directly affects your health. Positive self – esteem can increase your competence, or having enough skills to complete something. How can negative self – esteem negatively affect your health???? DEVELOPING SELF – ESTEEM… Developing self – esteem happens over time from accomplishing new challenges and from praise and acceptance from friends and family. Learning to adapt your strengths and weaknesses when trying to achieve a goal is beneficial. Not everyone succeeds on the first try to accomplish something new. Self – talk can increase or decrease your self – esteem by simply praising yourself for a job well done or for hounding yourself for a minor failure.

5. WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR SELF – ESTEEM (PAGE 1 OF GREEN PACKET)  Choose friends who value & respect you  Focus on your positive features  Use encouraging self – talk  Do not expect perfection. Accept your mistakes & think of them as learning experiences.  Try new activities to discover your talents.  Write down your goals & steps to how you will achieve them  Exercise regularly to feel more energized  Volunteer your time to help someone  Work at accepting the things you cannot change & focus your energy on changing the things you can

6. MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQ9vrvTAtk Ratouillehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzQ9vrvTAtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDS9r4Tz_ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDS9r4Tz_gUp Level 1: Physical/ Physiological Needs Level 2: Safety Needs Level 3: Need for Belonging/ Love Level 4: Feeling Recognized Level 5: Reaching Potential/ Self Actualization

7. Physiological Needs Physiological Needs Need these to survive: water, air, food, sleep Security Needs Security Needs Safety & security: steady job, health insurance, home/ shelter Social Needs/ Need for Belonging Need for belonging & love/ affection. Family, friends, & significant others help fulfill these needs. Esteem Needs / Feeling Recognized Esteem Needs / Feeling Recognized Self – esteem, personal worth, recognition/ accomplishments Self-actualizing Needs Self-actualizing Needs More concerned with personal growth rather than other’s opinions. Reaching personal potential.

8. HOMEWORK: 1. Make sure page 1 of the green packet is completed. You should have completed while going over notes. 2. “Chapter 3, Lesson 1: Developing Your Self – Esteem” Complete for next class