Chapter Seven

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Chapter Seven
Your Mental and Emotional Health
Lesson 1
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Mental/Emotional Health
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• 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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Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health

• Positive Self-Esteem
• Sense of belonging
• Sense of purpose
• Positive outlook
• Autonomy

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Positive Self-Esteem

• Feelings of confidence and self-esteem are
  directly related to your general level of
  wellness

Accepts challenges and takes failure in stride
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Sense of belonging
Emotional attachment to family, friends, and
other people that provide comfort and assurance

Feel part of your community
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Sense of purpose

• Recognizing your own value and importance,
  enables you to set and achieve goals and engage
  in rewarding activities

Sports, school, community service
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Positive outlook

• Seeing the bright side and having hope about
  life reduces stress and increases your energy
  level

Increases possibility of being successful
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Autonomy

• Having the confidence to make responsible and
  safe decisions, promotes self-assurance and a
  sense of independence

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs
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A ranked list of those needs essential to human
growth and development , presented in ascending
order, starting with the basic needs and
building towards the need for reaching the
highest potential

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs
Reaching Potential
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Feeling Recognized
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Belonging
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Safety
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Physical
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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs

• Physical-Hunger, thirst, shelter
• Basic survival needs such as food, water clothing
  ,sleep, and shelter from the elements
• Bottom of the pyramid

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs

• 2) Safety-Secure from danger
• Safety of familiar places and people that help
  you feel secure, such as your home, your family,
  and trusted friends

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs

• 3) Belonging-Love and be loved
• Humans are social beings that need to interact
  with other people and know that they are valued
  members of a group

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs

• 4) Feeling Recognized-Achievement
• Being appreciated and valued by family, friends,
  and peers. Gaining respect and a feeling of
  self-worth

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Maslows Hierarchy Of Needs

• 5) Reach Potential - Self-actualization
• Having goals that motivate and inspire you

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Self Actualization
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• Striving to become the best that you can be
• Having the courage to make changes in your life
  in order to reach your goals and grow as a person

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Personality
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• A complex set of characteristics that makes you
  unique

Talkative, Shy Musical, Athletic, Energetic
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Personality
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The one aspect of your personality over which
you have the most control is your behavior
heredity and environment are main influences on
personality also role models
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Modeling

• Observing and learning from the behaviors of
  those around you

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Lesson 2
Developing A Positive Identity
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Personal Identity

• Your sense of yourself as a unique individual
• Improve personal identity by taking pride in your
  strengths

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• Aspects of personal identity

Talents and abilities
Interests
Likes and dislikes
Values and beliefs
Goals
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Developmental Assets

• Building blocks of development that help young
  people grow up as healthy, caring, and
  responsible individuals

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Developmental Assets

1. Support
2. Empowerment
3. Boundaries and expectations
4. Constructive use of time

Standards set by parents, expectations of
teachers, laws set by community
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Developmental Assets

• 5) Commitment to learning
• 6) Positive values
• 7) Social competencies
• 8) Positive identity

Personal strengths, commitments, and values you
use to guide your decisions
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Healthy Identity

• Recognize strengths and weaknesses
• Demonstrate positive values
• Develop a purpose in life

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Healthy Identity

• Form meaningful relationships
• Contribute to the community
• Avoid unhealthy risk behaviors

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Constructive Criticism

• Non-hostile comments that point out problems and
  encourage improvement

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Lesson 3
Understanding Emotions
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Emotions

• Signals that tell your mind and body how to
  react

During adolescence, hormones can make emotions
seem more intense
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Hormone
Chemical secreted by your glands that regulates
the activities of different body cells
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Empathy
The ability to imagine and understand how
someone else feels
Sympathy
Feeling sorry for someone
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Phobia
Fear that results from imagined threat that
prevents you from leading a normal life
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Ignoring strong emotions can increase internal
tension that can eventually damage your health
A person with high self-esteem is more likely to
live longer and be healthier
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Lesson 4
Managing Emotions
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Guilt
A feeling that one has done something wrong or
is to blame for something
Guilt can act as your conscience and motivate you
to make positive changes in your behavior
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Defense Mechanism

• Mental processes used to deal with stressful
  emotions and situations
• Protect you from very strong feelings that could
  overwhelm you.

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Defense Mechanisms

• Repression Suppression
• Rationalization Regression
• Denial Compensation
• Projection Idealization
• Escape/Fantasy Sublimation
  

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Suppression

• Consciously holding back or restraining
  unpleasantness from ones mind

EX. Received bad news but still need to do well
on a test.
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Repression

• Involuntary pushing of unpleasant feelings out
  of conscious thought
• EX. A person does not remember
• the details of a traumatic event

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Regression

• Reverting to behaviors more characteristic of an
  earlier stage of development
• EX. An adult storms off and
• throws a tantrum

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Rationalization

• Making excuses to explain a situation or
  behavior rather than directly taking
  responsibility for it
• EX. Caught with phone and saying
• everyone else had theirs out

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Denial

• Unconscious lack of acknowledgement of something
  that is obvious to others
• EX. A person who has a drinking
• problem denies that he does

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Compensation

• Making up for weaknesses and mistakes through
  gift-giving, hard work, or extreme efforts
• EX. Got into trouble at school, clean up around
  house before dad comes home.

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Projection

• Attributing your own feelings or faults to
  another person or group
• EX. Boyfriend is cheating on his
• girlfriend, but he blames her for
• cheating all the time.

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Idealization

• Seeing someone else as perfect, ideal, or more
  worthy than anyone else

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Escape/Fantasy

• To break away from reality a daydream that is
  full of imagination and very unreal
• EX. Prisoner of War thinks about
• family and friends.

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How Can Defense Mechanisms Be Helpful?

• Protect you from very strong feelings that could
  overwhelm you suppression After a car accident,
  you may consciously push the event out of your
  mind so that you will be able to ride in cars
  without reliving the terror