1. Your Mental and Emotional Health

2. What is Mental and Emotional Health
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH- the ability to handle the stresses and changes of everyday life in a reasonable way.
Your mental emotional health can affect the other parts of your health.
How?
The other parts of health can also effect your Mental Emotional health.

3. Signs of Good Mental Emotional Health
Having a good attitude and positive outlook on life.
Recognizing your strengths and working to improve your weaknesses.
Setting realistic goals.
Acting responsibly.
Being able to relax and have fun with others and by yourself.
Being aware of your feelings and expressing them in a healthy way.
Accepting constructive feedback from others without becoming angry or defensive.

4. Signs of Good Mental Emotional Health
Accepting your self and others.
Adapting to new situations.
Showing empathy-the ability to identify with and share other people’s feelings.

5. How You see Yourself SELF CONCEPT- the way you view yourself overall.
Self image
Affects the way you relate to yourself and the world
PERSONALITY- a combination of your feelings, likes, dislikes, attitudes, abilities and habits.
Personality is influenced by
Heredity
What you learn from others
Culture

6. How You see Yourself SELF-ESTEEM- how you feel about yourself
High self-esteem leads to confidence
CONFIDENCE- the belief in your ability to do what you set out to do.
What influences Self Esteem
Messages from family and friends.
How?
The media

7. Building Resilience
RESILIENCE- the ability to recover from problems or loss
Does not mean you never have problems
It means that you can face the problem and find a positive solution

8. Building Self Esteem Set Realistic Goals Focus on your Strengths
Use short term goals
Focus on your Strengths
Find something you like to do and work on it.
Ask for help
Accept you may need help when learning something new and ask for it.
Remember that no one is perfect
Identify your weaknesses without judging yourself
Learn from constructive feedback
Realize that sometimes failure is out of your control
Mistakes are opportunities for improvement.

9. Building Resilience Focus on your strengths Connect with others
Use them to your advantage
Connect with others
Look to others for support in tough times
Motivate yourself
Set goals and plan how to accomplish them
Keep a positive attitude
Focus on what you want to happen not what might go wrong
Remember that no one is perfect
Mistakes are normal
Be willing to ask for help