By Byron Snell, Phillip Davis, Dionna Moore

1. Unit 2 By Byron Snell, Phillip Davis, Dionna Moore

2. Character • The degree to which a person regulates his or her own behavior is self-control. • A person uses self-control to act on responsible values has good character. • To have good character you must act in ways that are honest.

3. You show respect when you treat others as you want to be treated and refrain from violence. • You are trustworthy when you are dependable, loyal, and honest. • You are honest when you refuse to lie, steal, or mislead anyone.

4. Good character • You demonstrate compassion when you are sensitive to the needs, wants, and emotions of others, and you are forgiving. • You demonstrate good citizenship by obeying laws and rules, showing respect for authority, and protecting the environment.

5. Pay Attention to your appearance • Being well-groomed is one of the first indicators of self-respect. When you carefully choose the clothes you will wear or you brush your hair, you put your best foot forward. You will feel more self-confident when you look your best.

6. Make a list of your responsible actions • Knowing your actions are responsible helps keep you from getting down on yourself. Give yourself credit for behaving in responsible ways. Change behavior that is not responsible.

7. Be a friend to yourself by enjoying activates by yourself • Being by yourself allows quiet time to get in touch with your thoughts and feelings also can develop a talent or hobby that helps you feel unique

8. Write your feelings in a journal • Writing about feelings is a good way to examine what is happening in your life. Writing about feelings also is a way to vent feelings, such as anger, resentment, and disappointment. Review what you have written to gain self-knowledge.

9. make spending time with members of your family or a mentor a priority • If you have a loving, supportive family or mentor, they believe you and think you are special. They encourage you and help you have a positive attitude about yourself. When you are down on yourself, they help you change your attitude.

10. Care for other people the way you would like them to care for you • For example, suppose you want you to be comforted when you are sad. Comfort loved ones when they are sad.

11. Social-Emotional Environment • The quality of the contacts a person has with the people with whom he or she interacts is the social-emotional environment. • A social-emotional booster is an interpersonal contact that helps a person feel encouragement and support, choose responsible behavior, and recognize options.

12. Social-Emotional Environment • A social-emotional pollutant is an interpersonal contact that limits options or may cause a person to feel discouraged and alone or to choose wrong behavior. • If you live in a negative social-emotional environment, you must you must take action. • If you do not take action; you can feel discouraged, unsupported, lonely, and alienated.

13. How well do your express your emotions? When your express your emotions, are your actions responsible? Do your think about protecting your health when you experience an intense emotional response? Review the five guidelines that appear below for expressing emotions in healthful ways.

14. Identify the emotion. • What emotion am I experiencing? 2. Identify the source of the emotion. • Why do I feel this way? 3. Decide whether or not your need to respond right away. • Should I talk to a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult about the emotions I am experiencing? • Should I try to sort out my emotions by myself? • How might my parent, guardian, or mentor respond?

15. The feeling of being irritated or annoyed is called anger. Anger usually is a response to being hurt, frustrated, insulted, or rejected. An anger trigger is a thought or event that causes a person to become angry. An anger cue is a body change that occurs when a person is angry. Anger cues are an example of the powerful mink-body connection.

16. What to know About Hidden Anger and Hostility • Anger that is not recognized and is expressed in inappropriate ways is called hidden anger. The following types of behavior may be signs of hidden anger: being negative, making cruel remarks to others, being sarcastic, procrastinating, or blowing up easily.

17. If your have hidden anger, you may experience anything from tense facial muscles, stiff or sore neck and shoulder muscles, ulcers, or headaches to high blood pressure. Stress also may have a role in development of some types of cancer.

18. Some teens are always angry. This chronic state of anger is called hostility. Hostility is a physical state that places the body at greater risk or developing severe illness. The person’s body is in overdrive and gets very little rest. The person’s immune system, the body system that fights disease, is suppressed.

19. Teens who exhibit hostility have lowered brain serotonin levels. Serotonin is a chemical that is involved in controlling states of consciousness and mood. Teens with lowered brain serotonin levels can become very aggressive.

20. Teens with hidden anger may express their anger in harmful ways. Projection is blaming others for actions or events for which they are not responsible. Displacement is the releasing of anger on someone or something other than the cause of the anger. For example, a teen might be angry at a parent because the parent would not let them attend a concert. The teen might displace their anger and get into an argument with a friend. The teen might not be angry with the friend, but takes their anger out on the friend.

21. Some teens don’t know hey have hidden anger. This lesson can help you recognize hidden anger and learn how to express your anger in healthful ways.

22. Use self-statements to control anger • Self-statements are words a person can say to himself or herself when experiencing “anger triggers” and cues • Example: Someone could make you mad, an sometimes you need to control your anger so you could say something like, “I can manage this situation” say that over and over, take a few deep breaths and count to ten.

23. Physical activity keeps the body in good condition. It helps you maintain a healthful heart rate and blood pressure. When you are angry, extra blood sugar is released into your blood steam Reduce the effects of anger with physical activity

24. Talk with a parent, guardian, or mentor • Sometimes talking through your anger management helps to relieve it. Responsible adults can help you process anger.

25. Stress • Stress is the response of the body to the demands of daily living. • Stressors are the cause of stress. Stressors can be physical, mental, social, and environmental. • Eustress is the healthful response to a stressor. • And distress is the harmful response to a stressor.

26. Syndrome • a series of body changes that result from stress is general adaptation syndrome. • Adrenaline is a hormone that prepares the body to react during times of stress which happens in the alarm stage.

27. Stress Affects Health • Stress makes it difficult for you to think clearly and concentrate. It can keep you from having a healthy mind. • Teens that live in stressful homes or are in stressful relationships leads to teens becoming ill and will also hinder the immune system’s ability to fight off an infection or disease.

28. Stress, Growth, and development • During puberty, hormones cause the body to change. • Some growth hormones may cause you to experience a growth spurt. • Other hormones cause secondary sex characteristics to develop.

29. Stress and Nutrition • It is important to eat moderately and regularly when you are stressed because you may be less able to cope with stress if you are hungry. • Some people eat salty foods when they feel stressed. When you increase salt consumption your body might retain fluids.

30. Stress, Personal Health, and Physical Activity • Vitamin C helps your immune system function well. • If you exercise too much, it starts to hurt your body. • Immune system- the body system that helps fight diseases

31. Stress, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs • Using drugs decreases your ability to cope with stress. • Tobacco, marijuana, or cocaine causes a person to go through a stage of GAS (general adaptation syndrome). • People don’t handle the stress in a healthful way, and didn’t resolve the issue.

32. Stress, Communicable, and Chronic Diseases • Being overwhelmed or frustrated causes an immune system to be suppressed and lowers resistance from diseases. • Prolonged stress affects the risk of cancer. • Cardiovascular diseases are likely to occur.

33. Stress, Consumer, and Community Health • Boredom is a stressor and is caused from a lack of challenge. • Television addiction, Shopping addiction, computer addiction, and gambling addiction are common in people who are bored.

34. Stress and Environmental Health • Pollutants- harmful substances in the environment. • They are in the air you breathe, the water you drink, or the food you eat. • Loud noises causes you to go into a stage of GAS, and may make you have an accident.

35. Denying • Refusing to believe what is happening. • A child whose parents tell her they are getting a divorce would deny the fact. She might tell all her friends, or even herself that it was not true.

36. Being Angry • Her father tells her that he is moving out of the house. • She responds by being angry about what is happening. • She might even act out her anger by breaking family rules.

37. Bargaining • Bargaining, or making promises, hoping to change what is happening. • The girl’s promises might be motivated by guilt. • She might feel she is partially at fault for her parents’ failed marriage.

38. Being Depressed • Being depressed when recognizing the outcome is unlikely to change. • This period of sadness is necessary. • Sadness helps her feel the pain and experience the loss of family life as she knew it.

39. Accepting • Accepting what is happening, adjusting, and bouncing back. • After a period of time, she begins accepting the fact that her parents are no longer together. • She makes adjustments and bounces back.

40. This is only one example of a life crisis. • The five emotional responses that apply to other life crises. • People of all ages experience these emotional responses. • Learning to work through feelings during difficult times helps you become emotionally mature.

41. Depression • Minor depression- is a mood disorder accompanied by feelings of hopelessness • Dysthymic disorder- is a long lasting form of depression. • Major depression- is a mood disorder accompanied by long-lasting feelings of hopelessness, sadness, or helplessness.

42. What causes depression • Inability to cope with a life crisis • Changes in brain structure • Genetic predisposition • Traumatic family events • Physical illness and disorders • Alcohol and other drug use

43. Drug addictions • Drug addiction is the compelling desire to take a drug even though it harms the body, mind, and relationships.

44. Cognitive behavior therapy • Cognitive behavior therapy is a form of psychotherapy that involves behavior therapy and cognitive therapy. Other forms of therapy, such as individual counseling Or a combination of therapy and medication, also can be beneficial.

45. Medication • A physician will determine if a teen will benefit from taking prescription drugs for depression.

46. Antidepressant • An antidepressant is a drug used to relieve depression. There are different kind of antidepressant drugs. Some antidepressant regulate serotonin levels, which play a role in regulating a person’s mood.

47. Para suicide • A suicide attempt In which a person does not intend to die is Para suicide. Para suicide is a cry for help.

48. Info • Teens who tend to commit suicide are in a lot of pain. They are depressed, discouraged, and lack hope. • Teens who make a suicide attempt are not found in time! Their cries for help end with a tragic death! • Teens who have attempted suicide once may attempt suicide again. • That’s why talk of suicide must me taken seriously.

49. Cluster suicide • A series of suicides occurring within a short period of time and involving people who are connected in some way are cluster suicides!

50. Depression: • Depression- an illness that can affect both men and women at any age, race, ethnicity, or ethnic group • Depression should not be untreated. • Low self-esteem or poor coping skills put people at a higher risk of depression.