1. Mental/Emotional Health
What is it?

2. Mental/Emotional Health
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 helps you function effectively each day.

3. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health

4. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Sense of belonging
Sense of purpose
Positive outlook
Self-sufficiency
Healthy self-esteem

5. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Sense of belonging
Sense of purpose
Positive outlook
Self-sufficiency
Healthy self-esteem
Having good mental health does not mean being happy all the time. Most people have ups and downs throughout their lives. This is normal, especially during your teen years when you are adapting to many changes in your life. However, mentally and emotionally healthy people are resilient in the face of difficulties. They recognize that difficult or stressful situations are a part of life, and they are able to handle them in positive ways.

6. Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health
Sense of belonging
Sense of purpose
Positive outlook
Self-sufficiency
Healthy self-esteem
Having good mental health does not mean being happy all the time. Most people have ups and downs throughout their lives. This is normal, especially during your teen years when you are adapting to many changes in your life. However, mentally and emotionally healthy people are resilient in the face of difficulties. They recognize that difficult or stressful situations are a part of life, and they are able to handle them in positive ways.
Resilient: The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.

7. Self-Esteem
What is it?

8. Self-Esteem
What is it?
Self- Esteem: How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

9. Developing Self-Esteem
How do we develop a healthy, high level of self-esteem?

10. Developing Self-Esteem
How do we develop a healthy, high level of self-esteem?
Choose friends who respect and value you.
Focus on your positive qualities.
Replace negative self-talk with supportive self-talk.
Try new activities to discover your talents.
See your mistakes as learning opportunities.
Write down your goals and the steps you will take to achieve them.
Exercise regularly to feel more energized.
Volunteer your time to help others.
Accept the things you can’t change, and focus your energy on changing the things you can.

11. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

12. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

13. Hierarchy of Needs
Hierarchy: a system in which people or things are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status
Created by Abraham Maslow
A theory that explains human development and motivation

14. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

15. Personal Identity

16. Personal Identity: Your sense of yourself as a unique individual

17. Personal Identity
Personal Identity: Your sense of yourself as a unique individual
Developing your identity is one of the most important tasks you will accomplish during your teen years.

18. What makes up your personal identity?

19. Personal Identity What makes up your personal identity? Age
Situation In life (being a student, etc.)
Relationship
Experiences with family and friends
Surroundings
Cultural background
Personal tastes (likes and dislikes)
Values and beliefs
Interests
Goals

20. Personal Identity
You may share many of these aspects of yourself with other people. However, other parts of your identity are unique to you. We call this your personality.

21. Personal Identity
You may share many of these aspects of yourself with other people. However, other parts of your identity are unique to you. We call this your personality.
Personality: A complex set of characteristics that make you unique.

22. Personal Identity
You may share many of these aspects of yourself with other people. However, other parts of your identity are unique to you. We call this your personality.
Personality: A complex set of characteristics that make you unique.
Your personality sets you apart from other people and determines how you will react in certain situations.

23. Role Models
What is a role model?

24. Role Models What is a role model?
Role Model: Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you

25. Role Models What is a role model?
Role Model: Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you
Examples?

26. Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.

27. Character
Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.
Character: the distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

28. Character
Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.
Character: the distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
6 traits of good character:

29. Character
Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.
Character: the distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
6 traits of good character:
Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

30. Character
Healthy identity is based on being a person of good character.
Character: the distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
6 traits of good character:
Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

31. Integrity
By demonstrating traits of good character consistently, you show others that you have integrity.

32. Integrity
By demonstrating traits of good character consistently, you show others that you have integrity.
Integrity: A firm observance of core ethical values.

33. Developing Positive Identity
How?

34. Developing Positive Identity
How?
Recognize Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Demonstrate Positive Values
Develop a Purpose in Your Life
Take Appropriate Risks
Avoid Harmful Risk Behaviors
Form Meaningful Relationships
Contribute to the Community

35. Emotions

36. Emotions: Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.

37. Emotions Emotions: Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.
Common emotions:
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Anger
Fear
Guilt

38. Emotions Emotions: Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.
Common emotions:
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Anger
Fear
Guilt
Are emotions good or bad?

39. Emotions
FACT: emotions are neither good nor bad. The way you express your emotions, however, can have good or bad consequences.

40. The Role of Hormones
Hormones: Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells.

41. The Role of Hormones
Hormones: Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells.
During adolescence, it’s common to feel as if your emotions are swinging from one extreme to another. These emotional changes are triggered by hormones. Feeling overcome by your emotions at this time of your life is normal and is not a cause for concern.

42. Expressing Emotions Healthfully
To avoid negative outcomes, it helps to recognize your emotions and think about positive ways to express them.

43. Expressing Emotions Healthfully
To avoid negative outcomes, it helps to recognize your emotions and think about positive ways to express them.
Try asking yourself these questions:
Why do I feel the way I do?
Will this event matter later on in my life?
Should I wait before responding?
What can I do to feel better?
Who can help me deal with my negative feelings?

44. Expressing Emotions Healthfully
Some techniques to reduce the intensity of your emotions include:

45. Expressing Emotions Healthfully
Some techniques to reduce the intensity of your emotions include:
Taking several deep breaths.
Relaxing your muscles.
Getting away from the situation until you calm down.
Analyzing your emotions by writing about them in a private journal.
Talking to someone you trust about the way you feel.

46. Defense Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms: Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.

47. Defense Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms: Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Sometimes, people use defense mechanisms as a way to protect themselves from intense emotional pain.

48. Defense Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms: Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Sometimes, people use defense mechanisms as a way to protect themselves from intense emotional pain.
Short-term = OK
Long-term = can be problematic

49. Defense Mechanisms
Defense Mechanisms: Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Sometimes, people use defense mechanisms as a way to protect themselves from intense emotional pain.
Short-term = OK
Long-term = can be problematic
Some emotions, such as fear, guilt, and anger, have the potential to cause a lot of damage when the issue causing them is not addressed.

50. Defense Mechanisms

51. Fear
How to control it:

52. Fear How to control it: Recognize the source
Proper preparation (The 5 P’s)
Get help, if necessary

53. Fear How to control it: Recognize the source
Proper preparation (The 5 P’s)
Get help, if necessary
If you experience fear that you’re unable to control, consider seeking the help of a mental health professional

54. Guilt
How to deal with it:

55. Guilt How to deal with it:
Look at the circumstances realistically and honestly.
Attempt to identify the cause of our feelings.
If we are truly at fault, give the best effort to make amends.
We may have to acknowledge that some situations are out of our control.

56. Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Anger
Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.

57. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.

58. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
How to control it:

59. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
How to control it:
Take time to calm down.

60. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
How to control it:
Take time to calm down
Try deep breathing or slowly repeating a calming word or phrase

61. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
How to control it:
Take time to calm down.
Try deep breathing or slowly repeating a calming word or phrase.
If necessary, physically remove yourself from the situation. Then try one of these:

62. Anger Can be one of the most difficult emotions to handle.
Uncontrolled anger can turn into hostility.
Hostility: The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
How to control it:
Take time to calm down
Try deep breathing or slowly repeating a calming word or phrase.
If necessary, physically remove yourself from the situation. Then try one of these:
Do something to relax
Channel your energy in a different direction
Talk with someone you trust