Mental and emotional health

1. Mental and emotional health Health Goal #3 I Will Develop Healthful Personality Characteristics

2. Healthful Personality Characteristics • Personality – an individual’s unique pattern of characteristics. In other words, a set of characteristics that makes a person different from someone else.

3. Influences on Personality • Heredity – helps determine one’s intellectual abilities, temperament, and talents • Environment – Everything around a person and their influences and opportunities • Attitude – Shows through personality • Behaviors – What a person does affects personalities

4. Personality characteristics that promote good health • Ambition • Compassion • Confidence • Courage • Dedication • Generosity • Kindess • Patience • Loyalty • Responsibility

5. Personality test • 4 main types:

6. D = Choleric - Tendencies • Born Leader • Dynamic and Active • Compulsive need for change • Strong-willed and decisive • Unemotional • Not easily discouraged • Independent and self sufficient • Exudes confidence • Can run anything

7. D = Choleric – Weakness & Strategies • Weakness: • Impatient • Short attention span • Enjoys controversy and arguments • Strategies: • Get attention! Surprise attack – wow! • High points only – Short, quick and to the point. • Must envision success – won’t do if don’t think can be successful

8. I = Sanguine - Tendencies • Appealing personality • Talkative, storyteller • People oriented • Good sense of humor • Enthusiastic and expressive • Sincere at heart • Need social acceptance

9. I = Sanguine – Weakness • Weakness • Compulsive talker • Exaggerates and elaborates • Poor follow-through • Random effort – having fun • Naïve, gets taken in • Has loud voice and laugh

10. I = Sanguine - Strategies • Strategies: • Listen – must feel like being heard • Build trust • Social support – family/friends important • Match their engagement - interests

11. C = Melancholy - Tendencies • Deep and thoughtful • Analytical • Serious and purposeful • Talented and creative • Sensitive to others • Accurate • Conscientious • Idealistic

12. C = Melancholy – Weakness • Easily offended • Cant get to caught up in details • Doesn’t do well with change • Struggles with insecurity • Tends towards depression

13. C = melancholy - strategies • Give the “Big Picture” – the skeleton first then fill in the details • Don’t get bogged down – keep a view to the end goal – “we will get there…” attitude

14. S = Phlegmatic - Tendencies • Low-key personality • Easygoing and relaxed • Calm, cool and collected • Patient well balanced • Consistent life – predictable • Sympathetic and kind • Happily reconciled to life • All-purpose person

15. S = phlegmatic - Weakness • Like status quo – the familiar “always done this way” • Fearful and worried • Indecisive • Avoids responsibility • Quiet will of iron • Too shy and reticent • Self-righteous

16. S = phlegmatic - strategies • Don’t like change – use small steps/doses • Don’t look far ahead – easily overwhelmed • Needs follow-up and support

17. video • Kindness Video – • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwAYpLVyeFU