Chapter 8 Your Mental and Emotional Health Mental

Chapter 8 Your Mental and Emotional Health • Mental Health-having a positive outlook, being comfortable with yourself and others, and being able to meet life’s demands.

Signs of Good Mental Health In general people with good mental health: ü Are realistic about their strengths and weaknesses. ü Are responsible for their personal behavior ü Avoid high-risk behaviors such as using alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs ü Are open minded and flexible ü Are fun-loving and able to relax alone or with others ü Respect both their own and others’ needs

ü Respect everyone’s value as a human being—including their own ü Express their emotions in ways that do not hurt themselves or others ü Invest time and energy into nourishing relationships ü Put their talents and abilities to good use ü View change as a challenge and an opportunity

Self-Esteem • The confidence and worth that you feel about yourself is directly related to your general level of wellness. • Teens with high self-esteem are better able to take failure in stride and move forward. • Having high self-esteem promotes good mental health

The Role of Positive and Negative Feedback • Feedback-messages from others that indicate who they think you are or what they think you are like. • A person who has received mostly positive feedback will generally have high self-esteem. • Someone who has received lots of negative feedback may be more likely to have low selfesteem and fragile mental health.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs • A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development presented in ascending order from the most basic to the most full-filling or satisfying.

Physical Needs • The need to satisfy hunger, thirst, sleep, breathing, homeostasis, etc. • A lack of essential nutrients the body needs also interferes with the normal functioning of the brain, which in turn affects a person’s mental health. • Many of you take for granted these needs, but there are great numbers of people for whom food, clean water, and shelter are scarce or unavailable.

Safety needs • • Personal security from crime Financial security Health and well-being Safety net against accidents/illness and the adverse impacts

Social needs • involves emotionally-based relationships in general, such as: • friendship • intimacy • having a supportive and communicative family

Esteem • All humans have a need to be respected, to have self-esteem, self-respect, and to respect others. • People need to engage themselves to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution, to feel accepted and selfvalued, be it in a profession or hobby.

Aesthetic needs • The motivation to realize one's own maximum potential. • The need for self-actualization is the final need that manifests when lower level needs have been satisfied.