1. UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS Mental Health

2. 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

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

5. Common Phobias Hematophobia  Fear of blood

6. Ailurophobia Fear of Cats

7. Demophobia Fear of Crowds

8. Nyctophobia Fear of the Dark

9. Belonephobia Fear of needles

10. Ophidiophobia

11. arachnophobia

12. 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?

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

14. 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.