Achieving Mental and Emotional Health Chapter 3 Lesson

Achieving Mental and Emotional Health Chapter 3 Lesson #1 Pages 66 -71

Developing your self-esteem • Objective 1: Identify the characteristics of good mental and emotional health. • Objective 2: Identify and apply how to improve your self-esteem. • Objective 3: Identify Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

The Characteristics of Good Mental/Emotional Health • The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life. • People with good mental/emotional health demonstrate… – Sense of Belonging (Family, Friends, Teachers) – Sense of Purpose (Recognizing your value) – Positive Outlook (Sees the bright side & reduces stress) – Self-sufficiency (Having confidence to make safe & responsible decisions) – Healthy Self-Esteem (helps accept & recover from difficulties and failures) • QUESTION: With your partner, provide examples as to how this would look in real life, from 2 of the 5 characteristics listed above.

Self-Esteem • Self-Esteem: How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself. • Taking healthful risks can raise your self esteem –What are some healthy risks? • Trying new challenges can also raise your sense of competence: or having enough skills to do something. • Self-talk: the encouragement or criticism that you give yourself, can affect your self-esteem.

Benefits of Healthy Self-Esteem • Benefits of healthy self-esteem…. – Feel proud of yourself and your abilities, skills, and accomplishments – Believe setbacks are temporary – Ability to confront challenges & overcome them – Confidence to try new things – Know they may not be as good at some tasks as they are with others

Improving Self-Esteem 1. Turn to page 69 in your textbook. 2. Create a document titled “Improving MY self esteem. 3. From the list, choose 1 thing you can do to improve your self esteem. 4. Type your written plan DESCRIBING HOW you could incorporate the chosen suggestion into everyday life.

❑ Directions: students will list 3 traits they have displayed from the past two months. ❑ Next: partner up and take turns sharing stories as to how you demonstrated those traits. • • • Brave Creative Positive Friendly Flexible Thoughtful Respectful Determined Helpful Grateful • • • Funny Patient Honest Generous Trusting Loyal Forgiving Open-Minded Responsible Good Listener

Self esteem activity Directions: students will take turns discussing the following with their partner: 1. Discuss 3 things that you are good at 2. Share 3 compliments that you have received 3. Share 1 or 2 challenges you have overcome

Maslow’s Needs activity 1. Students may work alone or with a partner 2. Pass out worksheet 3. Read the directions and complete the worksheet. 4. Be prepared to discuss your answers.