What affects your health?

1. What affects your health? Heredity Environment Physical, Social, Culture Attitude Behavior Media

2. Mental and Emotional Health

3. What is it? • The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life. Mental and Emotional Health ch. 3 pg. 66

4. What are characteristics of good mental and emotional health? • Sense of belonging • Sense of purpose • Positive outlook • Self-sufficiency • Healthy self-esteem Mental and Emotional Health

5. Why is it important? • Leads to overall happiness • Enjoyment of life • Confidence • Ability to cope well with situations and a wide variety of feelings • It also influences your physical and social health Mental and Emotional Health

6. Are you resilient? How would you handle these situations? • Paper due tomorrow and you’re taking a major exam tomorrow • The college you’ve been hoping for defers you to a wait list • Your friend just got dumped • You just got dumped • Mom and Dad just told you they’re getting divorced • Someone you know got bad news • You missed the bus and it started to rain Resiliency – the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis. Mental and Emotional Health

7. Managing and Expressing Emotions • Happiness • Sadness • Love • Fear • Guilt • Anger How do you express these emotions? Mental and Emotional Health

8. What happens when you have trouble managing emotions? Defense Mechanisms – mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations Mental and Emotional Health

9. Common Defense Mechanisms • Repression – involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind • Regression – returning to behaviors characteristic of a younger age rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner • Denial – unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others • Projection – attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group Mental and Emotional Health

10. Common Defense Mechanisms, cont. • Suppression – consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind • Rationalization – making excuses to explain a situation or behavior rather than taking responsibility for it • Compensation – making up for weaknesses and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts. Mental and Emotional Health

11. Traits of a Good Character • Trustworthiness • Respect • Responsibility • Fairness • Caring • Citizenship Mental and Emotional Health

12. Self-esteem – how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself. Feeling valued, loved, and accepted by others + You value, love, and accept yourself = Good overall attitude and outlook Mental and Emotional Health

13. Can self-esteem improve? Let’s help Eeyore Mental and Emotional Health

14. How can you help improve self-esteem? • Choose friends who value and respect you • Focus on positive aspects about yourself • Replace negative self-talk with supportive self-talk • Work toward accomplishments not perfection • Exercise • Mistakes = learning opportunities • Accept what you cannot change and change what you can control Mental and Emotional Health

15. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Mental and Emotional Health

16. Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970) • American psychologist who created a theory that explains human development and motivation. Mental and Emotional Health: Maslow’s Hierarchy

17. Physical Needs • Air, water, food, shelter, sleep, sex Safety and Security Needs • Need to be safe and away from true danger Love and Belonging • Need to love and be loved, need to belong Esteem • Need for achievement and recognition Self Actualization • Need for reaching potential and exploring creativity; self-sufficiency What happens if the basic needs are not met? Maslow’s Hierarchy

18. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Mental and Emotional Health