Your Mental and Emotional Health

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Your Mental and Emotional Health
Do you think you have a positive outlook? Do you
look forward to facing lifes challenges?
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Your Mental and Emotional Health
Someone who is mentally and emotionally healthy
can

• Usually handle a wide variety of feelings and
  situations.
• Make wise choices that demonstrate both strong
  values and responsible behavior.

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Lesson Objectives
In this lesson, youll learn to

• Identify the characteristics of good mental and
  emotional health.
• Explain the importance of meeting needs in
  healthful ways.
• Analyze the importance and benefits of abstinence
  as it relates to emotional health.
• Analyze the relationship between mental health
  promotion and disease prevention.

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The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional
Health

• Good Mental/Emotional Health Attributes

People with good mental/emotional health
demonstrate the following characteristics

• Positive self-esteem
• Sense of belonging
• Sense of purpose
• Positive outlook
• Autonomy

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A Pyramid of Needs

• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow organized human needs in the form
of a pyramid called the hierarchy of needs.
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A Pyramid of Needs

• Physical Needs

Survival needs such as food, water, sleep, and
shelter rest at the bottom of the pyramid.

• There are many people for whom food, clean water,
  and shelter are not easily obtained.
• Social issues like homelessness can be related to
  health and physical needs.

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A Pyramid of Needs

• Need for Safety

Safety needs are not just about safeguarding
yourself against physical harm, they can also be
psychological in nature.

• Psychological needs for safety
• include
• Safety of familiar places
• Safety of familiar people

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A Pyramid of Needs
Need to Be Loved and to Belong
We need to interact with other people and to know
that we are valued members of a group that
enhances our physical, mental, and social health.

• Feeling a sense of belonging can
• Increase your confidence.
• Strengthen your mental/
• emotional health.

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A Pyramid of Needs
Need to Be Valued and Recognized
People need to be appreciated and to be
personally valued by family, friends, and peers.

• One way you might meet this need is by
  participating in productive activities.
• By being able to do something well, you gain
  respect and a feeling of self-worth.

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A Pyramid of Needs
Need to Reach Your Potential
Self-actualization is a lifelong process, and
part of the process is learning the
self-discipline you need to reach your goals.

• It involves
• Having goals that motivate and inspire you.
• Having the courage to make changes in your life
  in order to meet your goals and grow as a person.

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Meeting Your Needs
How Should You Meet Your Needs?

• The ways you choose to meet your needs affect
  your mental/emotional health.
• Sometimes people choose risky ways to fulfill
  their needsfor example, by engaging in sexual
  activity or by joining a gang.
• Practicing abstinence and finding healthful ways
  to meet emotional needs are strategies to avoid
  these risk behaviors.

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Understanding Your Personality

• Influences on Your Personality

• Your personality
• Is an important factor in how you choose to meet
  your needs.
• Includes your emotional makeup, attitudes,
  thoughts, and behaviors.
• Is influenced by heredity and environment.

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Understanding Your Personality
Personality and Heredity

• Heredity plays a role in determining your
• Basic intellectual abilities and temperament, or
  emotional tendencies.
• Behaviors such as risk-taking.
• Talents such as athletic or artistic abilities.

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Understanding Your Personality
Personality and Environment
Among the people in your environment are some who
serve as role models for your behavior.

• Most people naturally engage in modeling.
• The values you learn from the person you model
  yourself after help shape the person you become
  and the way you live your life.

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Understanding Your Personality

• Personality and Behavior

Different factors affect your levels of physical
and mental/emotional health.
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Promoting Mental/Emotional Health

• Why Should You Promote Good Mental/Emotional
  Health?

• Being mentally and emotionally healthy can
• Promote your physical health.
• Help prevent some diseases.
• Strengthen all three sides of your health
  triangle.

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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
Q. The act of observing and learning from the
behavior of others is known as _____.

• modeling
• 2. self-actualization
• 3. suppression
• 4. health literacy

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Quick Review - Answer
A. The act of observing and learning from the
behavior of others is known as modeling.
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Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given
below.
Q. List the needs in Maslows hierarchy of needs.
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Quick Review - Answer

• A. Maslows hierarchy of needs lists human needs
  as
• Physical needs
• Need for safety
• Need to be loved and to belong
• Need to be valued and recognized
• Need to reach your potential

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Quick Review
Provide a short answer to the question given
below.
Q. Identify the characteristics of a mentally and
emotionally healthy person.
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Quick Review - Answer

• A. The characteristics of a mentally and
  emotionally healthy person are
• Positive self-esteem
• Sense of belonging
• Sense of purpose
• Positive outlook
• Autonomy

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Quick Review
Provide a suitable explanation.
Explain how homelessness is a health-related
social issue.