This document discusses mental health and well-being. It defines mental health as having a positive outlook and being able to meet life's challenges. It discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which includes physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization needs. The document also covers personality types, emotions, love, empathy, anger, fear, guilt, and ways to handle emotions, such as rationalizing or suppressing them. Defense mechanisms like repression, denial, and projection are explained as unconscious ways people deal with upsetting feelings.

1. STRESSFUL
OR
NOT

2. Situation 1.
Arguing with
a classmate

3. Mental and
Emotional Health

4. What is Mental Health
■ Generally having a positive outlook, being
comfortable with yourself and other, and
being able to meet life’s challenges and
demands.

5. Self-Esteem
■ The confidence and worth that you feel
about yourself
■ How is it formed?
■ Feedback-messages from others that indicate
what they think you are or what they think you
are like
■ Self-Talk – feedback from yourself

6. Roadblocks to Mental Health
■ All or Nothing Thinking
■ Expecting the Worst
■ Being a Perfectionist
■ Letting your actions or words betray your
values

7. Needs and
Personality

8. Maslow’s Hierarchy
of Needs

9. The Physiological Needs
■ The need for:
■ Food
■ Water
■ Shelter
■ Clothing

10. Security Need
■ The need for social security in a family and
a society that protects against hunger and
violence

11. Love & Belonging Need
■ The need for:
■ Belonging
■ Receiving Love
■ Giving Love
■ Appreciation
■ Friendship

12. Esteem Need
■ The need to be a unique individual with
self-respect and to enjoy general esteem
from others

13. Self- Actualization
■Experiencing purpose,
meaning and realizing all
inner potentials

14. Question:
What are the 5 steps of
Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs?

16. Personality
■ A complex set of characteristics that makes you
unique and sets you apart from everyone else.
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■
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Heredity
Environment
Personal Behavior
■ Two personality types:
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Type A- Competitive, High Achievers
Type B- Laid-Back

17. Modeling
■ Copying the behaviors of those you are
exposed to

18. Emotions

19. What are Emotions?
■ Signals that tell your mind and body how to
react. They are neither good nor bad

20. Identifying Emotions
■ http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind
■ Mixed Emotions-
■ Mixed Emotions

21. Changes Emotions Cause
■ Endorphins can be triggered causing “fight
or Flight” mechanism
■ Release of chemicals that cause good
feelings and promote mental health
■ Increase in HR, perspiration, tightening of
stomach muscles.

22. Love
■ All humans need to give and receive (Maslow)
■ Includes strong affection, deep concern, respect,
supporting growth & individual needs, and
respecting that persons boundaries and values
■ Ways to express:
■ Words, Actions, Facial Expressions, touch, and good
deeds
■ Forms:
■ Caring for family/friends, loyalty to siblings, deep
connection to your country

23. Empathy
■ The ability to imagine
and understand how
someone else feels
■ “walk in someone
else’s shoes”
Anger
■ A strong feeling of
displeasure

24. Fear
■ Physical reaction to a life-threatening
situation.
■ Can be rational or irrational (phobias)
■ Can be inherited or instilled
■ Sympathetic Nervous System-reacts by
preparing your body for necessary actions.

25. Guilt
■ An emotional response when you think you
have done something wrong.

26. Handling Emotions
■ Ask yourself: What is this feeling really
about? Do I have any control over the
cause?
■ Consider whether or not this feeling or
situation will really matter tomorrow, next
week, or next year.
■ Remind yourself that feelings are just
feelings.

27. Handling Emotions
■ Use positive feelings to inspire you and
upsetting ones to motivate you to change.
■ Remember that you are not alone.
■ If the feeling doesn’t go away, seek help
from a parent, trusted adult, or professional.

28. Defense Mechanisms
■ Repression- Involuntary, unconscious
pushing of unpleasant feelings below the
surface and out of conscious thought
■ Suppression- Conscious, intentional
pushing of unpleasantness from one’s mind

29. Defense Mechanisms
■ Rationalization- Making excuses to try to
explain a situation or behavior rather than
directly taking responsibility
■ Regression- Turning back to behaviors
more characteristic of an earlier stage of
development rather than dealing with
conflict in a mature manner

30. Defense Mechanisms
■ Denial- Involuntary lack of
acknowledgement of something in one’s
environment that is obvious to others
■ Compensation- Wanting to cover up
weaknesses and mistakes by making them
through gift-giving, hard work, or other
extreme efforts

31. Defense Mechanisms
■ Idealization – Seeing someone else as
perfect or more ideal or worthy, than
everyone else.
■ Projection- Being unaware of attributing
one’s own feelings or faults to another
person or group even when these attributes
do not apply

32. ■ Displaced Aggression: taking anger out
on another person or object that was not
involved.