Mental and Emotional Health

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Unit 1

• Mental and Emotional Health

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Wellness

• Health - A condition of physical, mental,
  emotional, and social well being.
• Wellness - The state of good health achieved by
  balancing your physical, mental, emotional, and
  social health.

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4 Steps to Practicing Wellness

• Choose a Health behavior you want to improve.
• Gather information on how you can improve that
  health behavior.
• Start using the improved health behavior.
• Evaluate the effects of the health behavior.

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6 Steps of Decision Making

• Identify the problem.
• Consider your values.
• List the options.
• Weigh the consequences.
• Decide and act.
• Evaluate your decision.

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5 Refusal Skills

• Say no politely. Repeat yourself if necessary.
• Stay focused on the issue.
• Stand your ground. Dont get talked into
  something you know is wrong.
• Walk away.
• Avoid risky situations.

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3 Tips for Talking

• Stay focused. Talk about the important issue,
  not about anything that comes into your head.
• Choose your words carefully.
• Match your body language to your words.

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3 Tips for Listening

• Face the person who is talking.
• Make eye contact with the person who is talking.
• Restate or summarize what they said to you to
  avoid misunderstandings.

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Goals

• Short term goals are tasks that you can
  accomplish in a short period of time.
• Long term goals are made up of several short term
  goals. Long term goals may take weeks, months,
  or years to accomplish.

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6 Steps of an Action Plan

• Write down your goal.
• Make a list of the steps you will follow to reach
  your goal.
• Find information that may help you reach your
  goal.
• Map out the steps on a calendar.
• Check your progress off as you go.
• Reward yourself when you have reached your goal.

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5 Defense Mechanisms

• Rationalization - making excuses instead of
  admitting mistakes.
• Displacement - shifting negative feelings about
  one person to another person.
• Repression - blocking out unpleasant thoughts.
• Denial - Ignoring reality or pretending that
  something does not exist.
• Projection - Putting the blame for your problem
  on someone or something else.

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Stress

• Stress - The combination of a new or possibly
  threatening situation and your bodys natural
  response to the situation.
• Stressor - Anything that causes the stress
  response. Stressors can be physical, emotional,
  mental, or social.

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Stress (cont.)

• Distress - The negative physical, mental, or
  emotional strain in response to a stressor.
• Positive Stress - The positive response to
  winning, succeeding, and achieving.
• Positive Stress can energize, motivate, and
  excite you. It can leave you calm, happy, and
  relaxed.

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10 Effects of Distress

• Difficulty sleeping.
• Frequent headaches.
• Mental or emotional problems.
• Crying for no reason.
• D epressed, bored or frustrated.
• Tense, irritable, and overwhelmed.
• Trouble concentrating on schoolwork.
• Trouble making decisions.
• Overeating without meaning to.
• Loss of appetite.

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8 Ways to Prevent Distress

• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night.
• Eating lots of fresh fruit and vegetables.
• Setting realistic long term and short term goals
  with an action plan to achieve them.
• Having fun and playing outside.
• Believing that every problem has a solution.
• Finding something to laugh about every day.
• Setting a goal to learn something new every day.
• Treating other people with respect as you would
  like them to treat you.

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3 Sources of Conflict

• Resources - many conflicts occur when two or more
  people want the same thing but only one of them
  can have it.
• Values and Expectations - Many conflicts happen
  because of different ideas about what is
  important or how things should be done.
• Emotions - Many conflicts happen because of hurt
  feelings or anger. These feelings are usually a
  reaction to rudeness or immaturity.

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2 Signs of Conflict

• Disagreement.
• Emotions such as frustration, resentment, or
  anger in one or both parties.

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Resolving Conflicts

• Negotiation - Discuss the issues of a conflict to
  reach an agreement.
• Compromise - A solution to a conflict in which
  each side gives up something to reach an
  agreement.
• Collaboration - Both sides work together to get
  what they want.
• Mediation - The process in which another person,
  called a mediator, listens to both sides of the
  conflict and then offers solutions to the
  conflict.

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Conflict at School

• If you are being teased, ignore it, make a joke,
  or confront the teaser.
• If you are being bullied, ignore the bully, talk
  to the bully, stand up to the bully, or report
  the bully.
• If you have a conflict with a teacher, pick the
  right time and place to talk, stay calm, and
  focus on the problem.