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Your Mental and Emotional Health
Do you think you have a positive outlook?
Do you look forward to facing life’s challenges?
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Your Mental and Emotional Health
Someone 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.
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Lesson Objectives
In this lesson, you will learn to:
• 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
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The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health
Good Mental/Emotional Health Attributes
People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate the
following characteristics:
• Positive self-esteem
• Sense of belonging
• Sense of purpose
• Positive outlook
• Autonomy
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A 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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A Pyramid of Needs
Physical Needs
Survival needs such as food, water, sleep, and shelter rest at
the bottom of the pyramid.
• 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.
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A Pyramid of Needs
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Need for Safety
Safety needs are not just about safeguarding yourself against
physical harm, they can also be psychological in nature.
Psychological needs for safety
include:
• Safety of familiar places
• Safety of familiar people
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A Pyramid of Needs
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Need to Be Loved and to Belong
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.
Feeling a sense of belonging can:
• Increase your confidence.
• Strengthen your
mental/emotional health.
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Need to Be Valued and Recognized
People need to be appreciated and to be personally valued by
family, friends, and peers.
• 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.
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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.
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.
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Meeting Your Needs
How Should You Meet 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.
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Understanding Your Personality
Influences on Your Personality
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.
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Understanding Your Personality
Personality 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.
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Understanding Your Personality
Personality 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.
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Personality and Behavior
Different factors affect your levels of physical and
mental/emotional health.
How you
make
decisions
What actions
you take
What decisions
you make
Whether you
recognize the
consequences of
those decisions
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Promoting Mental/Emotional Health
Why Should You Promote Good 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.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
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
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Quick Review - Answer
1. Modeling
The act of observing and learning from the behavior of
others is known as modeling.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
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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Quick Review - Answer
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.
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Quick Review
Choose the appropriate option.
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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Quick Review - Answer
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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The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health
Good Mental/Emotional Health Attributes
People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate the
following 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.
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A Pyramid of Needs
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow organized human needs in the form of a
pyramid called the hierarchy 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.
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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.
Self-actualization
involves the striving to
become the best you
can be.
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.
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Understanding Your Personality
Influences on Your Personality
Your personality:
• Is an important factor in how you
Your your needs.
choose to meet
personality is a
complex
set of
• Includes
your emotional
makeup,
characteristics
attitudes,
thoughts, and behaviors.
that makes you
• Is influenced
unique.by heredity and
environment.
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Understanding Your Personality
Personality and Environment
Among the people in your environment are some who serve as
Modeling
role models for your behavior.
involves observing
and learning from
• Most people naturally engage in
the behaviors of
modeling.
those around you.
• The values you learn from the person you
model yourself after help shape the
person you become and the way you live
your life.
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Quick Review - Answer
A. Correct! The act of observing and learning from the
behavior of others is known as modeling.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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Quick Review - Answer
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.
Click Next to attempt another question.
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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 characteristics of a mentally and
emotionally healthy person include positive selfesteem, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose,
a positive outlook, autonomy.
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