Actions for the Future

• Establishing and maintaining good mental and emotional health is a lifelong, never-ending process.

Maslow Mr.Galle is awesome

• There are 3 major theorists regarding personality formation.– Sigmund Freud– Erik Erikson– Abraham Maslow

• Maslow is who we will be reading about today.

• Take out “Maslow and Emotional and Mental Health”

Explain

• When needs at the bottom of the Maslow pyramid are fulfilled, humans seek to and are able to fulfill higher-order needs.

• Most people have their physiological needs fulfilled most of the time.

• Teenagers, adults and senior citizens continue to attempt to satisfy their needs for safety, love, esteem and self-actualization.

Create

• You are going to be working in groups to create a list of actions people take throughout their lives to fulfill their hierarchy or needs and achieve good mental and emotional health.

• Each group is going to create a list in ONE specific area of Maslow’s hierarchy.

• You will begin by only doing the TEENAGER section of the worksheet.

Group Roles

• Task Master: Makes sure everyone stays on task.

• Writer: Writes down the group member responses.

• Leader: Makes sure everyone in the group participates.

• Reporter: Reports the group answers to the class.

Create

• Go back to your groups and work on the “Young-Adults” section of your worksheet.

Group Roles

• Task Master: Makes sure everyone stays on task.

• Writer: Writes down the group member responses.

• Leader: Makes sure everyone in the group participates.

• Reporter: Reports the group answers to the class.

Create

• Go back to your groups and work on the “Middle-Age Adults” section of your worksheet.

Group Roles

• Task Master: Makes sure everyone stays on task.

• Writer: Writes down the group member responses.

• Leader: Makes sure everyone in the group participates.

• Reporter: Reports the group answers to the class.

Create

• Go back to your groups and work on the “Older Adults” section of your worksheet.

Summarize

• As people move through different stages in their lives, the actions they take to achieve and maintain good mental health may change.

• Once the more basic needs are met, higher-order needs become the focus of their lives.

Complete and Share

• Take out “What About My Future?”• Complete this worksheet and we will share

with the class.

Summarize

• Higher-order needs can only be pursued when lower-order needs are met.

• Thinking and dreaming about your future and making plans are important first steps in achieving and maintaining good mental and emotional health.

HOMEWORK!!!!

• Interview a person whom you believe engages in activities that result in self-actualization.– Describe the concept of self-actualization; ask if

the person feels he or she engages in self-actualization activities

– Have the person identify specific activities he or she considers self-actualizing

– And describe his or her feelings about those actions.

HOMEWORK!!!! (Cont.)

– Take notes on the interview– Write about what you learned from the interview

in your journals.• DUE TOMORROW!!!