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

2. Mental and Emotional Health

3. Mental and Emotional Health ch. 3 pg. 66
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. Mental and Emotional Health
What are characteristics of good mental and emotional health?
Sense of belonging
Sense of purpose
Positive outlook
Self-sufficiency
Healthy self-esteem
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5. Mental and Emotional Health
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
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6. Mental and Emotional Health
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.
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7. Mental and Emotional Health
Managing and Expressing Emotions
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Fear
Guilt
Anger
How do you express these emotions?
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8. Mental and Emotional Health
What happens when you have trouble managing emotions? Defense Mechanisms – mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations
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9. Mental and Emotional Health
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
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10. Mental and Emotional Health
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.
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11. Mental and Emotional Health
Traits of a Good Character
Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship
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12. Mental and Emotional Health
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
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13. Mental and Emotional Health
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
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14. Mental and Emotional Health: Maslow’s Hierarchy
Abraham Maslow (1908 – 1970)
American psychologist who
created a theory that explains
human development and
motivation.
Mental and Emotional Health: Maslow’s Hierarchy

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

16. Maslow’s Hierarchy is 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
Maslow’s Hierarchy

17. Maslow’s Hierarchy What happens if the basic needs are not met?
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