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1 Good mental and emotional health helps you develop healthy self-esteem.

2 mental/emotional health
resilient self-esteem competence hierarchy of needs self-actualization

3 What is Mental and Emotional Health?
Mental and emotional health helps you function effectively each day. Do you see yourself in a positive way? Are you able to handle challenges and setbacks well? These are signs of mental and emotional health.

4 What Is Mental and Emotional Health?
Having good mental/emotional health is an important part of your total health. mental/emotional health The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life

5 The Importance of Mental and Emotional Health
Mentally healthy people are, in general: happy. confident. comfortable spending time alone or with others. flexible. able to cope with a wide variety of feelings and situations.

6 Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Sense of Belonging Feeling close to people provides you with support. Recognizing that you have value helps you set and reach goals. Sense of Purpose Seeing the bright side increases your chances of success. Positive Outlook Being confident promotes your sense of independence. Self-Sufficiency Having healthy self-esteem helps you recover from difficulties. Healthy Self-Esteem

7 Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Mentally and emotionally healthy people are resilient. Resilient Having the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

8 Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Close friends encourage one another.

9 Self-Esteem Healthy self-esteem is necessary for good mental/emotional health. Having good self-esteem affects your overall attitude and the health choices you make.

10 Self-Esteem Self-esteem influences the other characteristics of good mental health. Self-esteem How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

11 Trying new challenges can raise your sense of competence.
Self-Esteem Trying new challenges can raise your sense of competence. Competence Having enough skills to do something

12 How You Develop Self-Esteem
Self-talk, the encouragement or criticism that you give yourself, can affect your self-esteem. Replace negative thoughts with positive self-talk to strengthen your self-esteem.

13 Benefits of Healthy Self-Esteem
Healthy Self-Esteem Helps You: feel proud of yourself and your abilities, skills, and accomplishments. have the confidence to confront challenges and overcome them. have the confidence to try new things.

14 Improving Your Self-Esteem
You can improve your self-esteem and your overall mental and emotional health. You can control many things that affect your self-esteem.

15 Improving Your Self-Esteem
Suggestions for Improving Your 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 rather than perfection. Consider your mistakes learning opportunities. Try new activities to discover your talents.

16 Improving Your Self-Esteem
Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem. Write down your goals and the steps to achieving them. Exercise regularly to feel more energized. Volunteer your time to help someone. Accept the things you can’t change. Focus your energy on changing the things you can change.

17 Developing Self-Awareness
Understanding your needs and meeting them in healthy ways will help you reach your highest potential. As infants, we rely on others to meet our basic needs. As we grow, our needs become more complex.

18 Developing Self-Awareness
The psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory called the hierarchy of needs that seeks to explain human development and motivation. Hierarchy of needs A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential

19 Developing Self-Awareness

20 Developing Self-Awareness
Maslow’s hierarchy shows that once our basic physical and safety needs are met, we become interested in meeting these needs: The need to reach our potential or to achieve self actualization. The need to belong and be loved. The need to be valued and recognized.

21 Developing Self-Awareness
The fifth level of Maslow’s hierarchy is reaching potential, or achieving self-actualization. Self-actualization To strive to be the best you can

22 Developing Self-Awareness
As your self-awareness grows, you can begin to take more control of your personal growth. Reaching out to others can help you grow by developing deeper relationships and a stronger support group.

23 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
List the characteristics of good mental/emotional health. Sense of belonging, sense of purpose, positive outlook, self-sufficiency, healthy self-esteem

24 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the term self-esteem. Self-esteem is how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

25 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Identify the five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Physical needs, safety needs, need to belong, need to achieve and be recognized, need to reach potential

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