1. Chapter 5 Mental and Emotional Health Get a Worksheet and a Book VA sols: 7.1c, d, e, f, g 7.2d, e & 7.4a
Day 1
Lessons 1 & 2

2. Journal Entry In your Journal Section….
Think about a specific time you felt disappointed, upset or angry. Write down how you dealt with your feelings.

3. Definition
Mental and emotional health: The ability to handle the stresses and changes of everyday life in a reasonable way.

4. Understanding Mental and Emotional Health
All sides of this triangle are equally important and interact with each other
Can you think of examples of how social or physical health affect mental/emotional health?

5. Accepting Who You Are
Accepting yourself is a key part of mental and emotional health
To accept yourself you must first recognize your strengths and work on improving your weaknesses

6. Definition
Personality: A combination of your feelings, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities and habits.

7. Influences on Your Personality
Many factors shape your personality
Three of the most important factors are heredity, environment and behavior

8. Heredity The passing of biological traits from parents to children
You can inherit personality traits from your parents such as being outgoing

9. Environment
Your environment is your family, friends, neighbors, school and even the climate of where you live.
An example of this would be coming from a family that is happy and teaches you how to be happy.

10. Behavior
Behavior is how you act and is a big part of your personality.
Of the three factors behavior is the one you have the most control over.
The actions you choose to take show how you feel about yourself and others.

11. How to Build Mental and Emotional Health
You can work to improve your mental and emotional health.
When these inner qualities are strong, your outer life often shows it.
The following are some good ways to build strong mental and emotional health……

12. Have a good attitude and a positive outlook
Recognize your strengths and work on your weaknesses
Set realistic goals
Act responsibly
Be able to relax or have fun in a group be aware of your feelings and express them in healthy ways
Practice empathy
Accept constructive feedback

13. Empathy: Identifying with and sharing another person’s feelings.
Definition
Empathy: Identifying with and sharing another person’s feelings.

14. Resilience: The ability to recover from problems or loss.
Definition
Resilience: The ability to recover from problems or loss.

15. Resilience

16. Building Resilience
Resilience is an important part of mental and emotional health because it allows you to face challenges and move past them in a healthful way.
The best way to become more resilient is to make positive choices.
This can include strengthening relationships and taking part in activities that make a difference to you or others.
Resilient people often have strong support from family and friends.

17. Your Self-Concept and Self-Esteem

18. Self-concept: The way you view yourself overall
Definition
Self-concept: The way you view yourself overall

19. Your Self-Concept
Self-concept is how you see yourself as a student, a friend, and as a member of groups, such as sports teams.
It is based on external output from others as well as internal thoughts and experiences.

20. Self-Esteem: How you feel about yourself
Definition
Self-Esteem: How you feel about yourself

21. Your Self-Esteem Part of your self-concept is your self-esteem.
Do you like yourself?
Do you feel good about who you are?

22. Why Self-Esteem is Important
Having good self-esteem helps you take responsibility for your actions
It gives you a sense of pride in your accomplishments
It helps you to be more confident around others

23. Influences on Your Self-Esteem
Supporting, loving messages build self-esteem
Critical, hurtful messages break it down.
With this is mind, the TV, radio, and the internet can also affect your self-esteem.
Your own attitudes and choices you make can affect self-esteem.

24. Self-Esteem and TV

25. Optimistic: Having a positive attitude about the future
Definition
Optimistic: Having a positive attitude about the future

26. Benefits of Self-Esteem
Optimism is just one of the benefits of having high self-esteem
Other benefits include…
Taking care of yourself, including your health and personal hygiene
Enjoying meeting and being with other people
Increased oppurtunities from being willing to take on challenges
Having confidence…

27. Confidence: Belief in your ability to do what you set out to do
Definition
Confidence: Belief in your ability to do what you set out to do

28. How to Build Self-Esteem
Set realistic goals
Focus on what you are naturally good at
Ask for help when you need it
Accept that no one is perfect
Think positively

29. Goal Setting Fill out your goal chart for fitness testing
I will give you your scores and you are to set SMART goals
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic
Time

30. In a group of 4 or less people…
Each of you will describe a stressful situation that you have dealt with
Pick your choice of situation, then,
Brainstorm an appropriate strategy for dealing with that stress and the benefits for using that particular stress management technique