Health and Wellness Self-Esteem & Mental Health

1. Health and WellnessSelf-Esteem & Mental Health Mental and Emotional Health Chapter 3: Section 3 Pages 61-67 Adapted from Lifetime Health

2. ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson, students will have been able to do the following: • Describe characteristics of positive health. • Compare the stages of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. • Describe how you can learn to express emotions in positive ways. • Identify the limitations of defense mechanisms. • Describe three positive strategies for managing your emotions. Adapted from Lifetime Health

3. Key Terms • Mental health • The state of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of daily life • Self-actualization • The achievement of the best that a person can be • Emotion • The feeling that is produced in response to life experiences • Defense mechanism • An unconscious behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions Adapted from Lifetime Health

4. Motivation • Brainstorm different ways people express certain emotions and determine if the different ways of expressing the emotion are helpful or harmful to themselves or others. Adapted from Lifetime Health

5. Part I Adapted from Lifetime Health

6. Mental Health • The state of mental well-being in which one can cope with the demands of dailylife. • A sense of control • Ability to endure failures and frustrations • Ability to see events positively • Ability to express emotions in a healthy way Adapted from Lifetime Health

7. Check-in • Paraphrase the definition of mental health • Put it in your own words Adapted from Lifetime Health

8. Questions to ask yourself… Mental well-being is about how we all think, feel, behave and function. • How you feel about yourself? • How you feel about others? • How you meet the demands of everyday life? Adapted from Lifetime Health

9. Shoplifting Statistics • There is no profileof a typical shoplifter. Men and women shoplift about equally as often. • The vast majority of shoplifters are “non-professionals” who steal, not out of criminal intent, financial need or greed but as a response to social and personal pressures in their life. Adapted from Lifetime Health

10. Characteristics of a mentally healthy person include all of the following except • A tendency to see challenges of life as opportunities. • Denying one’s emotions. • Taking responsibility for one’s behaviors. • Persistence through setbacks and frustrations. Adapted from Lifetime Health

11. Pictionary Adapted from Lifetime Health

12. Part II Adapted from Lifetime Health

13. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Mentally and emotionally healthy people are more likely to reach self-actualization. 3. Social stage • The need for love, affection, acceptance, and friendship 2. Safety stage • The need for shelter and protection from danger The need for order and routine, security of health, employment, and financial stability 1. Physical stage • The need for food, water, sleep, air, exercise, homeostasis, and excretion Adapted from Lifetime Health

14. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Mentally and emotionally healthy people are more likely to reach self-actualization. 5. Self-actualization • The achievement of the best that a person can be Obtaining full potential, creativity, becoming confident, eager to express one’s beliefs, and lack of prejudice 4. Esteem stage • The need to have self-respect, respect by others and to achieve goals or attain achievement Feeling important—includes approval and appreciation 3. Social stage 2. Safety stage 1. Physical stage Adapted from Lifetime Health

15. Self-Actualization: The achievement of the best that a person can be. Adapted from Lifetime Health

16. Check-in • Name the missing stages Adapted from Lifetime Health

17. Liking oneself is an example of which stage... • Physical stage • Safety stage • Social stage • Esteem stage Adapted from Lifetime Health

18. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which of the following teens is struggling with the social stage? Nick does what other people tell him to do so they will like him. Josh chooses friends he respects and who respects him Michelle is taking an advanced calculus class Clara always lives according to her principles Adapted from Lifetime Health

19. Prodigies (Sharing a Passion...) • Kid President: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-gQLqv9f4o • Jordon McCabe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9LAZRikWc • Kelvin Doe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLOLrUBRBY • Plays Choplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ujNMnA4b2E Adapted from Lifetime Health

20. Part III Adapted from Lifetime Health

21. Emotions • An emotion is the feeling that is produced in response to life experiences. Can you learn to express emotion constructively? • YES! You can learn to express your emotions more constructively regardless of how others around you express their emotions. • Practice expressing your emotions in a positive way. Adapted from Lifetime Health

22. Three ways to Manage Emotions • Talk it out Adapted from Lifetime Health

23. Three ways to Manage Emotions • Blow off steam Adapted from Lifetime Health

24. Three ways to Manage Emotions • Be creative • Sing, or play a musical instrument; write down how you feel; talk to a friend; exercise, or play a sport; let go of what you can’t control; and draw or paint a picture. Adapted from Lifetime Health

25. Emotions deserving special attention... • Are difficult to manage Fear Jealousy Anger Guilt Loneliness Adapted from Lifetime Health

26. Unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid experiencing unpleasant emotions. DefenseMechanisms Adapted from Lifetime Health

27. Limitations of Defense Mechanisms Some defense mechanism can be helpful or have a positive outcome. Ignoring feelings can become problematic. Finding the Right Balance Find the right balance between managing emotions and using defense mechanisms. Defense Mechanisms Adapted from Lifetime Health

28. Compensation Daydreaming Denial Displacement Idealization Defense Mechanisms • Projection • Rationalization • Regression • Repression • Sublimation Adapted from Lifetime Health

29. Compensation Making up for weakness in one area by achieving in another Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

30. Daydreaming Imaging pleasant things that take your mind off the unpleasant reality Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

31. Denial Refusing to accept reality Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

32. Displacement Shifting feelings about one person or situation to another person or situation Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

33. Idealization Copying someone you think highly of because you don’t feel good about who you are Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

34. Projection Seeing your own faults or feeling in someone else Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

35. Rationalization Making excuses for or justifying behavior Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

36. Regression Reacting to emotions in a childlike or immature fashion Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

37. Repression Blocking out painful thoughts or feelings Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

38. Sublimation Redirecting negative impulses into positive behavior Defense mechanism Adapted from Lifetime Health

39. Compensation -Making up for weakness in one area by achieving in another Daydreaming -Imaging pleasant things that take your mind off the unpleasant reality Denial -Refusing to accept reality Displacement -Shifting feelings about one person or situation to another person or situation Idealization -Copying someone you think highly of because you don’t feel good about who you are F. Projection -Seeing your own faults or feeling in someone else G. Rationalization -Making excuses for or justifying behavior H. Regression -Reacting to emotions in a childlike or immature fashion I. Repression -Blocking out painful thoughts or feelings J. Sublimation -Redirecting negative impulses into positive behavior Defense mechanisms Adapted from Lifetime Health

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41. Closure • State whether each of the statements below is true or false. Correct the false statements. • The way that a person expresses his or her emotions is learned by their family interactions as they grow up and cannot be changed. • If you are emotionally and mentally healthy, you will not feel angry about things. Adapted from Lifetime Health

42. Resource/Reading • Jealousy – How To Deal With It • Jealousy Adapted from Lifetime Health

43. Works Cited • Images. Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from http://www.images.google.com • Friedman, D. P., Stine, C.C., and Whalen, S. (2004). Lifetime Health. Austin, Texas: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. • Retrieved on August 4, 2010 http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm • http://www.nmhdu.org.uk/silo/files/mental-wellbeing-checklist-a4.pdf Adapted from Lifetime Health