Post on 22-Feb-2016
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Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways
Ms. Sauvageau’s Health Education
Emotions
• Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.
Common Emotions:-Happiness-Guilt-Sadness -Anger-Love-Hostility-Fear
• Hormones: chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells
Empathy
• The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDb5jQqXXVU Stop at 0:43.
Defense Mechanisms
• Mental Processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
-Can be used when dealing with fear, guilt, or anger
Defense Mechanisms• Repression: involuntarily pushing unpleasant
feelings out of one’s mind.• Regression: returning to behaviors
characteristic of younger age, rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner.
• Denial: unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others.
• Projection: attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoaee7hE3_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYswI36eCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKF1u-TOXuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl5Kag5cfyU
Defense Mechanisms
• Suppression: consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one’s mind.
• Rationalization: making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it.
• Compensation: making up for weaknesses and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s2BUQFIkpU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfxGR0K9jA 2:00-3:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i_WpYc3YI4
How do you deal with your emotions?
• Do something to relax -music, read, walk
• Channel your energy in a different direction-walk, run, piano, guitar, art, write
• Talk with someone you trust-call friend/family
• Others?
Communication Styles
• Aggressive: overly forceful, pushy, or hostile• Passive: unwilling or unable to express
thoughts and feelings in a direct or firm manner.
• Assertive: expressing your views clearly and respectfully.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qra604RbU
Active Listening
• Paying close attention to what someone is saying and communicating.-Don’t interrupt-Show interest-Restate what you hear-Ask questions-Show empathy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
“I” vs. You Statements
• A statement that focuses on your feelings rather than on someone else’s behavior.
• Helps you communicate your feelings in a positive way without placing blame on someone else. -I really don’t like……-I feel…….-I bothers me when I…….
Body Language
• Nonverbal communication through gestures, facial expressions, behaviors, and posture.
• Sometimes the messages don’t mix, could contradict one another.
Resilient
• The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Maslow’s 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 to reach your highest potential.
• Self-actualization: to strive to be the best you can.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Constructive Criticism
• Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement.
• Examples?