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Setting Emotional Health Goals. Skills for Developing Good Emotional Health. Communicating emotions appropriately. Developing healthy, supportive relationships with peers and adults. Knowing how to cope with stressful situations.
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Skills for Developing Good Emotional Health • Communicating emotions appropriately. • Developing healthy, supportive relationships with peers and adults. • Knowing how to cope with stressful situations. • Setting short-term and long-term goals and taking action to achieve them. • Advocating for health and helping others.
How can setting goals and achieving them help improve your emotional health?
Explain • Learning how to set realistic short-term and long-term goals is a very important strategy in developing good emotional health. • There are some specific steps to follow to be successful in setting and achieving a goal.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals • Identify an emotional health characteristic you’d like to strengthen. • Building a better relationship with your mother.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals • Write a specific, measureable goal to help strengthen this characteristic. • By the end of the month, I will have a positive conversation with my mom at least 15 minutes each day.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals • Identify specific steps to accomplish your goals • Identify 3 things each day I want to talk to my mom about. • Find time to talk each day. • Prepare by planning what to share and what to ask.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals 4. Create a timeline to accomplish your goal. • Week 1—write down topics to discuss and prepare. • Week 2—talk 5 minutes a day with mom. Write down new ideas. • Week 3—talk 10 minutes a day with my mom. Write down new ideas. • Week 4—talk 15 minutes a day with my mom. Write down new ideas.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals • Who can help you achieve your goal? • Ask your friends what they talk to their moms about. Ask your health teacher for advice about how to approach your mom. Ask a sibling for help.
Steps to Achieving Emotional Health Goals • Evaluate your progress toward your goal. • Did you take time to think about what you wanted to talk about? Was your goal realistic? • How were your conversations with your mom? • What can be done to improve them? • How has your emotional health improved as a result of working toward this goal?
Take out your “Strengthening My Emotional Health” worksheet from awhile ago. • Think about a emotional health characteristic you most want to improve.
Take out “Goal Setting: Achieving Emotional Health” • Complete this worksheet. • When you are done. Share your plans with a partner.