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Mental Health

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Page 1: Is the ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life.

Mental Health

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Mental and Emotional Health

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

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Characteristics of Good Mental and Emotional Health

Sense of belongingSense of purposePositive OutlookSelf-SufficiencyHealthy Self-Esteem

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Self-Esteem

How much you value, respect and feel confident about yourself

Stuart Smalley

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Improving your self-esteem

Choose friends who value and respect you

Focus on positive aspects of yourself Replace negative self-talk with

supportive self talk Work towards accomplishments

rather than perfection Try new activities to discover your

talents Consider your mistakes learning

opportunities

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Improving your self esteem

Write down your goals and the steps you’ll take to achieve them

Exercise regularly Volunteer your time to help someone Accept the things you can’t change

and focus your energy on changing the things you can

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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.

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Self-Actualization

The need to reach our potential or strive to be the best you can.

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Emotions

Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.

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Common Emotions

HappinessSadnessLoveFearGuiltAnger

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Managing Emotions

EmpathyThe ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels

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Responding to Difficult Emotions

Defense MechanismsAre mental processes that

protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions.

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Wrapping up

1. Answer questions 1-5 in on page 71.

2. Answer questions 1-3 on page 83

(These questions will most likely be on the test in some form- important info!!)