Mental and Emotional & Social Health

What are ways to improve your self-esteem?

-Avoid criticizing yourself, or spending time with people who criticize you -Set realistic expectations, and don't expect everything to be perfect -Choose friends who value and respect you -Focus on positive aspects about yourself -Replace negative self-talk with positive -Work toward accomplishments rather than perfection -Consider mistakes as learning opportunities -Try new activities to discover you talents -Write down your goals and the steps you will take to achieve them -Exercise regularly to feel more energized -Volunteer your time to help someone -Accept the things you can't change, focus your energy on changing the things you can

Heredity plays a role in determining what factors?

-Basic intellectual abilities and temperament, or emotional tendencies -Behaviors such as risk-taking -Talents such as athletic or artistic abilities

What are the benefits of self-esteem?

-Being optimistic -When you are optimistic you are not afraid to try new activities. Even if you don't succeed, you know you gave it your best shot

Social health

-Deals with the way we react with people within our environment -This includes: public health, family relationships and peer relationships

Personality and behavior

-Different factors affect your levels of physical and mental/emotional health -How you make decisions -What decisions you make -Whether you recognize the consequences of those decisions -What actions you take -Cycle of these run full circle

Public health

-Disease prevention and promotion health through good decision making -Keeping yourself safe and healthy benefits your community as a whole

What groups include having or being a part of?

-Family -Affection -Relationships -Work groups

Benefits of healthy self-esteem? (add)

-Helps you feel proud of yourself and your abilities, skills, and accomplishments

What is the threoy created by Abraham Maslow that explains human development and motivation?

-Hierarchy of Needs -Ascending order, starting with basic needs and building towards the need of your highest potential

Physical Needs

-Hunger, thirst, sleep and shelter

What kind of things or situations increase your self-esteem?

-Increases when you are praised for efforts -Increases when you believe you can succeed, or when you master new challenges -No one succeeds at new tasks and activities ALL the time -Positive self-talk

Alcohol and drugs

-Interfere with messages to the brain and alters perception -Use of such substances puts you at risk for accidental injuries, car crashes, trouble with the law, unwanted pregnancies, and fights

Your personality

-Is an important factor in how you choose to meet your needs -Includes your emotional makeup, attitudes, thoughts and behaviors -Is influenced by heredity and environment

How to build resilience?

-Make positive choices for yourself -Strengthen your refusal skills -Take part in school activities that you feel can make a difference for you or others -Build strong relationships with family and friends -It does get better

Why do you think it is important to have good mental and emotional health?

-Makes people happy and able to enjoy life -More confident -Comfortable with others -Flexible and cope with a wide variety of feelings and situations -Affect the other areas of health (physical health and family social health)

What influences self-esteem?

-Messages you get from your environment -Media -Your own attitudes and the choices you make

Personality and environment?

-Modeling -Among the people in your environment are some who serve as role models for your behavior -The values you learn from the person you model yourself after help shape the person you become and the way you live your life

What are stability psychological needs for safety?

-Safety of familiar places -Safety of familiar people

Safety Needs

-Secure from danger -Include: protection, security, order, law, limits -Safeguarding yourself against physical harm

People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate what characteristics?*

-Sense of belonging = Feeling close to family members, friends, teachers and other provides you with support -Sense of purpose = recognizing that you have value and importance as a person lets you set and reach goals -Positive outlook = Seeing the bright side of life reduces stress and increases your chances of success -Self-sufficiency = Having the confidence to make responsible decisions promotes your sense of independence and self-assurance -Health self-esteem = Having healthy self-esteem helps you accept and recover from difficulties and failures

Belonging

-We need to interact with other people and to know that we are valued members of a group that enhances our physical, mental and social health -

Order of hierarchy of needs?

1) Physical needs 2) Safety 3) Belonging

What is the health triangle?

A measure of the different aspects of health

Sleep

At least 8 hours of sleep -The human body likes regularity, so try to go to bed and wake up at the same time daily

Proper balanced meals/Nutritious meals

Create a balance between what we eat and the way our body uses the food for energy and growth

What is physical health?

Deals with the body's ability to function

What is self-esteem?

How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

Feeling a sense of belonging can?

Increase your confidence

What is health?

Measure of our body's efficiency and over-all well-being

If the physical needs of food, water, rest, and a sense of safety are not met, what can it negatively affect?

Mental and emotional health

Esteem needs or feeling recognized

People need to be appreciated and to be personally valued by family, friends and peers -The need to achieve, and/or need to be recognized -achievement -status -responsibility -reputation

What does the triangle consist of?

Physical, Social and Mental Health

What is mental and emotional health?

The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life

What is resiliency?

The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficult, or crisis

What is exercise?

Using muscles to stay physically fit -Gives you energy -Maintain weight -Increase confidence and self esteem

Self actualization

strive to be the best you can -Personal growth -Fulfillment -Reaching your potential is something hat is ongoing and can take a lifetime to accomplish -It involves: Having goals that motivation and inspire you -Having the courage to make changes in your life in order to meet your goals and grow as a person