1. Achieving Good Mental Health
CHAPTER 7
Achieving Good Mental Health
7.1 Your Mental and Emotional Health
7.2 Developing a Positive Identity
7.3 Understanding Emotions
7.4 Managing Emotions

2. The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health
What is Mental/Emotional Health?
The ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.

3. People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate:
Positive Self-Esteem…
Sense of Belonging…
Sense of Purpose…
Positive Outlook…
Autonomy…

4. Signs of Good Mental Health/Emotional Health
Realistic about strengths/weaknesses
Responsible for personal behavior
Avoid high-risk behaviors
Open-minded/flexible
Respect own needs and others’ needs
Put talents and abilities to good use
Express emotions in non-harmful ways

5. A Pyramid of Needs What is the 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 for reaching your highest potential.

6. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
LEVEL 5 – REACHING POTENTIAL
LEVEL 4 – FEELING RECOGNIZED
LEVEL 3 - BELONGING
LEVEL 2 - SAFETY
LEVEL 1 - PHYSICAL

7. LEVEL 1 – Physical Needs
Food
Water
Sleep
Shelter from the elements

8. LEVEL 2 – Need for Safety Safety needs essential to your personality
Safety of familiar places/people
Security….

9. LEVEL 3 – Need to Be Loved and to Belong
Babies denied of emotional attention may be stunted mentally.
Valued members of a group that enhances our growth
Increase your confidence
Strengthen your mental/emotional health

10. LEVEL 4 – Need to Be Valued and Recognized
Feeling appreciated
Personally valued by family, friends, and peers
Gain respect and self-worth

11. LEVEL 5 – Need to Reach Your Potential
Self-actualization: ____________________________________________________________________
Goals that motivate and inspire you
Your talents, your dreams, what you want to become
Lifelong process
Requires self-discipline

12. Meeting Your Needs - Abstain from risky behaviors…
- Focus on building and maintaining respectful, loving relationships with people you care about.

13. PERSONALITY
Personality: A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique
What Influences Your Personality?
Heredity…
Environment…
- Modeling: observing and learning from
the behaviors of those around you
Behavior…