Health and Wellness Self-Esteem

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Health and WellnessSelf-Esteem Mental Health

• Mental and Emotional Health
• Chapter 3 Section 3
• Pages 61-67

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ObjectivesAt the end of this lesson, students
will have been able to do the following

• Describe characteristics of positive health.
• Compare the stages of Maslows 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.

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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

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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.

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Mental Health

• The state of mental well-being in which one can
  cope with the demands of daily life.
• A sense of control
• Ability to endure failures and frustrations
• Ability to see events positively
• Ability to express emotions in a healthy way

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• Mentally and emotionally healthy people are more
  likely to reach self-actualization.
• Self-actualization
• The achievement of the best that a person can be
• Esteem stage
• The need to have self-respect and to achieve
  goals
• Social stage
• The need for love, affection, and acceptance
• Safety stage
• The need for shelter and protection from danger
• Physical stage
• The need for food, water, sleep, and exercise

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Managing Emotions

• An emotion is the feeling that is produced in
  response to life experiences.
• Learning to express Emotions
• 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.
• Managing Emotions
• Talk it out
• Blow off steam
• 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 cant control and
  draw or paint a picture.

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Emotions deserving special attention!

• Anger, fear, guilt, jealousy, and loneliness

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Defense Mechanisms

• Unconscious thought or behavior used to avoid
  experiencing unpleasant emotions.
• Compensation
• Daydreaming
• Denial
• Displacement
• Idealization
• Projection
• Rationalization
• Regression
• Repression
• Sublimation

• 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.

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Defense mechanisms

• 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
  dont feel good about who you are

• Projection
• Seeing your own faults or feeling in someone else
• Rationalization
• Making excuses for or justifying behavior
• Regression
• Reacting to emotions in a childlike or immature
  fashion
• Repression
• Blocking out painful thoughts or feelings
• Sublimation
• Redirecting negative impulses into positive
  behavior

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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.

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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.businessbal
  ls.com/maslow.htm