Your Mental and Emotional Health

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Your Mental and Emotional Health

• Mental/Emotional Health the ability to accept
  yourself and others, adapt to and manage
  emotions, and deal with the demands and
  challenges you meet in life

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• Ranked list of those needs essential to human
  growth and development, presented in ascending
  order, starting with basic needs and building
  toward the need for reaching your highest
  potential.

Level 5 Reaching Potential Need for
self-actualization
Level 4 Feeling Recognized Need to achieve,
need to be recognized
Level 3 Belonging Need to love and be loved,
need to belong
Level 2 Safety Need to be secure from danger
Level 1 Physical Need to satisfy basic needs
of hunger, thirst, sleep and shelter
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Level 1 Physical Needs

• Survival needs
• Food
• Water
• Sleep
• Shelter

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Level 2 Need for Safety

• Safeguarding yourself from physical harm
• Sense of security safety of familiar places and
  people

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Level 3 Need to be loved and belong

• Need to give love and feel loved
• We are social we need to interact with others
• Want to belong
• A community
• Family
• Friends
• Social group (team or school club)

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Need to be Valued and Recognized

• Need to be appreciated
• Valued by family, friends, and peers
• You can meet this need by participating in
  productive activities

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Level 5 Need to reach your potential

• Self-actualization striving to become the best
  you can be
• Having goals that motivate and inspire you

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Meeting your needs

• Meeting your needs affect your mental and
  emotional health
• Some people choose risky ways to meet their needs
• Joining a gang
• Sexual activity
• What are some ways to meet your needs in a
  healthy way?

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Understanding your personality

• Personality a complex set of characteristics
  that makes you unique
• Personality is an important factor in how you
  choose to meet your needs

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Influences on your personality

• Heredity
• Plays a role in determining a persons basic
  intellectual abilities and temperament
• May also influence risk-taking behaviors and
  talents
• Environment
• Everything that surrounds you in your day-to-day
  life
• Every person, place, object, event, or activity
  in your life
• Role models
• Modeling observing and learning from the
  behaviors of those around you

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Influences on your Personality

• Personal Behavior is an Aspect of your
  personality you have the most control over
• How you make decisions
• What decisions you make
• Recognizing consequences
• Actions you take

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Your Personal Identity

• A sense of who you are
• Your interests
• Your likes and dislikes
• Your talents and abilities
• Your values and beliefs
• Your goals

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Your Developmental Assets
The building blocks of development that help
young people grow up as healthy, caring and
responsible individuals

• External Assets
• Support
• Family support, positive family communication,
  caring neighborhood, parental involvement
• Empowerment
• Serving a purpose by having a role in the
  community, being valued by adults in the
  community
• Boundaries and Expectations
• Clear rules and consequences, adult role models,
  high expectations
• Constructive Use of Time
• Creative activities, youth programs, time at
  home, sports

• Internal Assets
• Commitment to Learning
• Being motivated to achieve, being involved at
  school, doing homework, reading
• Positive Values
• Compassion, equality and social justice,
  integrity, honesty, responsibility, self-control
• Social Competencies
• Planning and decision making, interpersonal
  communication, tolerance of different cultures,
  peaceful conflict resolution skills
• Positive Identity
• Personal power, self-esteem, sense of purpose,
  positive view of personal future

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Working Toward a Healthy Identity

• Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
• Accept and take pride in your strengths
• Asses your weaknesses and set goals for
  improvement
• Dont be overly self-critical
• Demonstrate positive value
• Make sure your behavior reflects your personal
  values and standards
• Develop a purpose in your life
• A framework for your mental health as you grow
• Establish goals and working to achieve them

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Working Toward a Healthy Identity

• Form meaningful relationships
• Enable you to express yourself and share
  experiences
• Give you a support system
• Contribute to the community
• Your community is an extended support system for
  your family
• Provides services and resources to meet many of
  your needs
• Avoid unhealthful risk behaviors

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Self-Esteem

• A healthy identity will increase self-esteem and
  give you a higher level of mental/emotional
  health
• Comes from understanding you are a unique and
  valuable person

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People with high self-esteem

• Take responsibility for their behavior
• Generally have a positive outlook on life
• Like and accept who they are overall
• Try to learn from their successes as well as from
  their mistakes
• Build and maintain healthy relationships

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Ways to improve your self-esteem

• Focus on the positive things not the negative
• Think of appropriate way to share your positive
  attributes
• Engage in behaviors that will promote your health

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A Positive Outlook

• People with a positive outlook live longer and
  are healthier (mentally and physically)
• Remind yourself that no matter what happens,
  there is always hope
• Make plans to address problems
• Look at challenges as opportunities for growth
  and learning

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Self-talk

• Replace negative messages with constructive
  criticism
• Remember everyone makes mistakes
• Encourage yourself