Mental and Emotional Health: Strategies and Coping Techniques

1. October 4, 2018 • Do Now:Take a packet and fill in the blanks. • Obj: • LWDAT review information on the topic of health and wellness. LWDAT recognize traits of good mental and emotional health.

2. Mental and Emotional Health

3. Mental & Emotional Health • Read pages Chapter 3 Lesson 1. • Take notes on the key terms and ideas:

4. Terms • Adapt: adjust to new situations • Personality: unique combination of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that make you different from everyone else • Determines how you handle problems and new situations

5. October 5, 2018 • Do Now: What are some ways to deal with emotions that are healthy? Unhealthy? • Obj: • LWDAT review information on the topic of health and wellness. LWDAT recognize traits of good mental and emotional health. • LWDAT recognize traits of good mental and emotional health.

6. Self-concept vs. Self-esteem • Self-concept: view of yourself • Self-esteem: way you feel about yourself , how you value yourself • Resilience: ability to bounce back from disappointment

7. Ways to stay mentally healthy • Motivating yourself • Knowing & managing your feelings • Changing your thoughts & behaviors • Improving your self-esteem • Focusing on your strengths • Accepting criticism constructively • Learning from your mistakes

8. October 15, 2018 • Do Now: Read Chapter 3 Lessons 3 & 4, identify key concepts and terms from the reading and copy them into your notebook (notes section) • Obj: LWDAT recognize traits of good mental and emotional health. Discuss ways to deal with and express emotions in a healthy way

9. EMOTIONS • Emotions: feelings • Emotional Needs: Needs that affect your feelings and sense of well being • Need to love & be loved • Need to belong • Need to make a difference

10. Anxiety • Anxiety: state of uneasiness, usually associated with a future uncertainty (can be good, to much can be bad) • Panic: feeling of sudden, intense fear • Defense mechanisms: strategies that help people deal with strong emotions • Denial : refusing to accept what is real • Displacement: taking feelings out on someone other than the person who hurt you • Sublimation: taking strong feelings and using them in a positive way

11. October 16, 2018 • Do Now: Name and describe at least 3 mental/emotional disorders. • Obj: LWDAT recognize traits of good mental and emotional health. Discuss ways to deal with and express emotions in a healthy way • Health Quiz on everything so far on “A” day October 23rd.

12. Stress • Stress: physical response to change • Distress: stress that interferes with your life and makes you unhappy or sick • Stressor: anything that causes stress • Negative effects • Headaches, digestion problems, high blood pressure, feel anxious, moody, irritable, withdrawn • Fight or flight response: process by which the body prepares to deal with a stressor • Adrenaline: hormone that gives the body extra energy

13. Ways to deal with stress • Relaxation • Laughter • Positive Outlook • Physical Activity • Time Management: • Strategies for using time efficiently

14. Grief • Grief: sorrow caused by loss of a loved one • Grief reaction: process of dealing with strong feelings following any loss • 5 stages of grief • Denial: don’t believe that the loss or disappointment happened • Anger: bitterness • Bargaining: make a deal to fix the disappointment • Depression: deep sadness associated with realization that loss is permanent • Acceptance: come to terms with the loss and ready to move on

15. Coping • Coping strategies: ways of dealing with the sense of loss people feel at the death of someone close • Sadness, crying, sharing with someone • Helping others cope • Let the person decide how you can help them • Respect the person’s feelings • Let the person grieve at their own pace