Health Unit 1- Mental and Emotional Health
Social Health
Ability to make and keep friends, seek and lend support and cooperate
Mental Health
Ability to recognize reality & being realistic
Examples of Emotional Health
Anger, Love, Sadness, Fear, Jealousy
Stress
Body and minds reaction to every day demands
Self-Esteem
Confidence & worth you feel about yourself
Signs of High Self-Esteem
Confidence, Acceptance
Holistic
Considering the whole person
Compensation
Covering up weaknesses/mistakes with giftgiving hard work or other extreme efforts
Signs of Low Self-Esteem
Don't Try, Avoid Challenges
Ways to reduce stress
Exercise, allow plenty of time
Emotional Health
Expressing feelings in an appropriate way
Examples of Social Health
Friends, Peers, Parents, Support Groups
Spiritual Health
Having a spiritual direction/purpose in life
Idealization
Having the idea that someone/something is perfect/better than everyone else
Three problems that are associated with long-term stress
Heart disease, tension headaches, ulcers
Aspects that you have no control over
Heredity, Environment, Accidents, Pollution, Abuse, Death, Age, Birth Defects
Fatigue Stage
Higher chance to illness and accidents
Rationalization
Making excuses to explain situation/behavior rather than accepting responsibility
Examples of Spiritual Health
Morals, Values, Honesty, Hope
Distress
Negative stress
Wellness
Overall state of well-being
Physical Health
Physical characteristics & the way your body functions
5 Components of Health
Physical, Mental, Social, Emotional, and Spiritual
Feedback
Positive and Negative messages from others indicating what they think you are like
Self-Talk
Positive and Negative things you say to yourself
Eustress
Positive stress
Prevention
Practicing healthy habits to keep a person well and free from health problems
Alarm stage
Prepares for action
Denial
Refusal to accept reality
Examples of Physical Health
Sleep, Metabolism, Diet, Illness, Stregnth
Resistance stage
Stress reaches peak
Examples of Mental Health
Stress, Learning new things, Change, Positive Outlook, Self-Talk, Self-Esteem
Projection
Taking out stress on another person even though they have nothing to do with the stress
Regression
Turning back to behaviors of early stage of development
7 Important Lifestyle Factors
1) 7-8 Hours of Sleep 2) Eat Nutritious Foods 3) Don't Smoke or Use Tobacco 4) Eat Breakfast 5) 30 min. of Activity 6) Don't Use Drugs 7) Maintain Healthy Body Weight
7 Strategies used to improve self-esteem
1) Accept yourself 2) Use positive self talk 3) Be good at something 4) Use I statements 5) Develop a support group 6) Resist peer pressure 7) Act with integrity
Stress response stages
1) Alarm 2) Resistance 3) fatigue
Physical responses to stress
1) Increased heart rate 2) Adrenaline 3) perspiration
