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Comprehensive Mental Health Unit - Key Concepts and Life Stages

Explore essential concepts like mental health, wellness, personality, stereotype, and self-esteem, along with the progression through life stages from teenage years to late adulthood. Understand emotions, love, types of love, anger, fear, grief, empathy, stressors, and responses to stress.

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Comprehensive Mental Health Unit - Key Concepts and Life Stages

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  1. Mental Health Unit

  2. DEFINE THE FOLLOWING • Mental Health • Wellness • Personality • Stereotype • Self-Esteem

  3. Mental Health The ability to express emotions and deal with the demands of daily life.

  4. Wellness The highest level of well-being achieved through lifestyle. How you choose to live your life

  5. Personality • How you think, feel and behave. Your personality can change throughout your lifetime. How?

  6. Stereotype • Thinking that all members of a specific group have the same traits, attitudes, characteristics, etc.

  7. Self-Esteem How much you value, respect, and feel confident you have about yourself. If you feel loved, valued, and accepted by others, and you love, value, and accept yourself, your overall attitude and outlook will be good!

  8. LIFE STAGES • Teenage Years • (13-19) • Young Adulthood (20-40) • Middle Adulthood (40-65) • Late Adulthood (65-death)

  9. Teenage Years • Puberty: PHYSICAL CHANGES marking the beginning the manhood/womanhood. • Girls 12 Boys 14 • Adolescence: Mental and social changes. • Three (3) Key Questions asked… • Who am I? • What do I believe in? • Where am I going?

  10. Ms. Reinhardt’s AdolescentPhoto Journeyps….please keep laughter to a minimum

  11. 1st Grade

  12. 2nd Grade

  13. 4th grade

  14. 5th grade

  15. 6th grade

  16. 7th grade

  17. 8th grade

  18. 9th grade

  19. 10th grade

  20. 11th grade

  21. THE PROGRESSION

  22. Who Am I? • Attempt to discover your identity • Grow through activities and people • Desire to belong

  23. Peer Groups People of the same age range with similar interests

  24. What do I believe in? Values: Beliefs, rules or guidelines you feel are important to live by. Examples:

  25. Where am I going? Making your own choices and setting goals.

  26. Young Adulthood • Go to college • Start careers • Reach emotional maturity • Make decisions and understand consequences • Marry/Family

  27. Middle Adulthood • Reflect on life choices • Physically change • Retirement • Confront death

  28. Late Adulthood • Some people experience a mental and/or physical breakdown. • Enjoy and relax family and friends • Confront death

  29. EMOTIONS Signals that tell your mind & body how to react. How you respond to these feelings can affect your level of wellness.

  30. LOVE Strong affection, deep concern, and respect are expressions of love. Loving someone means you support the needs and growth of that person and respect the person’s feelings and values.

  31. TYPES OF LOVE • Friendship: loyalty • Family: unconditional • Romantic: passionate • Community: pride

  32. Anger A normal reaction to being emotionally hurt or physically harmed. Anger can lead to violence. Hostility is the intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.

  33. Fear The belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Some people let fear of imagined threats prevent them from taking healthful risks.

  34. Fear of the unknown • Fear of losing someone/something you have • Fear you cannot get what someone else has • An exaggerated, unrealistic fear

  35. Grief: A deep feeling of sorrow caused by the loss of something you cannot get back

  36. Denial: refusing to believe it happened • Anger: frustration over the loss • Bargaining: Attempt to get it back • Depression: Realizing you can’t get it back • Acceptance: accept the loss and moves on

  37. Happiness: A feeling of contentment and well-being

  38. Empathy The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.

  39. How to communicate your feelings101 “I FEEL….. WHEN……. and I NEED……”

  40. The body’s response to a physical or mental demand… Examples? What caused the stress? Examples? STRESS VS STRESSOR

  41. Life Situation Stressors • School Demands • Problems with friends • Bullying • Peer Pressure • Family problems • Abuse • Moving

  42. Environmental Stressors • Unsafe neighborhoods • Media • Natural Disasters • Threat of terrorist attack • War • Global Warming

  43. Biological Stressors • Changes in body • Illness • Injury • Disability

  44. Cognitive (Thinking) • Poor Self-esteem • Personal Appearance • Not fitting in • Exclusion

  45. Personal Behavior • Taking on a busy schedule • Relationship Issues • Smoking • Using alcohol or other drugs

  46. What causes us stress when returning to school? • 32% is schoolwork issues. • 30% social issues. • 25% physical appearance issues. • 3% extracurricular issues. • 10% no worries about returning to school.

  47. Eustress VS. Distress • Eustressis good stress with a positive result. Examples? • Distress is bad stress with a negative result. Examples?

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