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LessonLesson 11Your Mental and Emotional Health

Do you think you have a positive outlook?

Do you look forward to facing life’s challenges?

LessonLesson 11Someone who is mentally and emotionally healthy can:

• Usually handle a wide variety of feelings and situations.

• Make wise choices that demonstrate both strong values and responsible behavior.

Your Mental and Emotional Health

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• Identify the characteristics of good mental and emotional health

• Develop ways to meet your needs in healthful ways

• Associate abstinence with emotional health

• Compare the relationship between mental health promotion and disease prevention

In this lesson, you will learn to:

Lesson Objectives

LessonLesson 11The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health

Good Mental/Emotional Health Attributes

People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate thefollowing characteristics:

• Positive self-esteem

• Sense of belonging

• Sense of purpose

• Positive outlook

• Autonomy

LessonLesson 11A Pyramid of Needs

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow organized human needs in the form of a pyramid called the hierarchy of needs.

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• There are many people for whom food, clean water, and shelter are not easily obtained.

• Social issues like homelessness can be related to health and physical needs.

Physical Needs

Survival needs such as food, water, sleep, and shelter rest at the bottom of the pyramid.

A Pyramid of Needs

LessonLesson 11Need for Safety

Psychological needs for safety

include:

• Safety of familiar places

• Safety of familiar people

Safety needs are not just about safeguarding yourself against physical harm, they can also be psychological in nature.

A Pyramid of Needs

LessonLesson 11Need to Be Loved and to Belong

Feeling a sense of belonging can:

• Increase your confidence.

• Strengthen your mental/emotional health.

We need to interact with other people and to know that we are valued members of a group that enhances our physical, mental, and social health.

A Pyramid of Needs

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• One way you might meet this need is by participating in productive activities.

• By being able to do something well, you gain respect and a feeling of self-worth.

Need to Be Valued and Recognized

People need to be appreciated and to be personally valued by family, friends, and peers.

A Pyramid of Needs

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It involves:

• Having goals that motivate and inspire you.

• Having the courage to make changes in your life in order to meet your goals and grow as a person.

Need to Reach Your Potential

Self-actualization is a lifelong process, and part of the process is learning the self-discipline you need to reach your goals.

A Pyramid of Needs

LessonLesson 11Meeting Your Needs

• The ways you choose to meet your needs affect your mental/emotional health.

• Sometimes people choose risky ways to fulfill their needs—for example, by engaging in sexual activity or by joining a gang.

• Practicing abstinence and finding healthful ways to meet emotional needs are strategies to avoid these risk behaviors.

How Should You Meet Your Needs?

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Your personality:

• Is an important factor in how you choose to meet your needs.

• Includes your emotional makeup, attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors.

• Is influenced by heredity and environment.

Understanding Your Personality

Influences on Your Personality

LessonLesson 11Personality and Heredity

Heredity plays a role in determining your:

• Basic intellectual abilities and temperament, or emotional tendencies.

• Behaviors such as risk-taking.

• Talents such as athletic or artistic abilities.


LessonLesson 11Personality and Environment

Among the people in your environment are some who serve as role models for your behavior.

• Most people naturally engage in modeling.

• The values you learn from the person you model yourself after help shape the person you become and the way you live your life.


LessonLesson 11Personality and Behavior

Different factors affect your levels of physical and mental/emotional health.

How you make

decisions

What actions you take

What decisionsyou make

Whether you recognize the

consequences of those decisions


LessonLesson 11Promoting Mental/Emotional Health

Being mentally and emotionally healthy can:

• Promote your physical health.

• Help prevent some diseases.

• Strengthen all three sides of your health triangle.

Why Should You Promote Good Mental/Emotional Health?

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Q. The act of observing and

learning from the behavior of others is known as _____.

1. modeling 2. self-actualization

3. suppression

4. health literacy

Choose the appropriate option.

Quick Review

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Click Next to attempt another question.

A. 1. Modeling

The act of observing and learning from the behavior of others is known as modeling.

Quick Review - Answer

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Q. The most basic need of humans,

according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, is the need to feel recognized, the need to achieve, the need to be recognized.

True

False


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A. False. The first level, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of

Needs, is physical; the need to satisfy basic needs of hunger, thirst, sleep, and shelter.


LessonLesson 11Quick Review

Q. The act of observing and

learning from the behavior of others is known as _____.

1. positive self-esteem

2. sense of belonging

3. sense of purpose

4. positive outlook

5. Autonomy

6. All of the above


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A. 6. All of the above

The characteristics of a mentally and emotionally healthy person include positive self-esteem, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a positive outlook, autonomy.

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LessonLesson 11The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health

Good Mental/Emotional Health Attributes

People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate thefollowing characteristics:

• Positive self-esteem

• Sense of belonging

• Sense of purpose

• Positive outlook

• Autonomy

Good mental/emotional health is the ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.

Good mental/emotional health is the ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.

LessonLesson 11Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow organized human needs in the form of a pyramid called the hierarchy of needs.

A Pyramid of Needs

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is 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 for reaching your highest potential.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is 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 for reaching your highest potential.

LessonLesson 11Need to Reach Your Potential

Self-actualization is a lifelong process, and part of the process is learning the self-discipline you need to reach your goals.

It involves:

• Having goals that motivate and inspire you.

• Having the courage to make changes in your life in order to meet your goals and grow as a person.

A Pyramid of Needs

Self-actualization involves the striving to become the best you can be.

Self-actualization involves the striving to become the best you can be.

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Your personality:

• Is an important factor in how you choose to meet your needs.

• Includes your emotional makeup, attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors.

• Is influenced by heredity and environment.

Influences on Your Personality


Your personality is a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.

Your personality is a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.

LessonLesson 11Personality and Environment

Among the people in your environment are some who serve as role models for your behavior.

• Most people naturally engage in modeling.

• The values you learn from the person you model yourself after help shape the person you become and the way you live your life.


Modeling involves observing and learning from the behaviors of those around you.

Modeling involves observing and learning from the behaviors of those around you.

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A. Correct! The act of observing and learning from the

behavior of others is known as modeling.



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You have answered the question incorrectly. Go back to try again or click Next to see the correct answer.


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A. Correct! The first level, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy

of Needs, is physical; the need to satisfy basic needs of hunger, thirst, sleep, and shelter.


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A. Correct! The characteristics of a mentally and

emotionally healthy person include positive self-esteem, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a positive outlook, autonomy.

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