Chapter 3 - Lesson 1 - Developing Your Self-Esteem

Boost your confidence! Learn about mental health, self-esteem, and how to build a positive self-image.

1. Good mental emotional health helps you develop a healthy self-esteem. WHAT IS MENTAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH? 2. Mental and emotional health helps you function effectively each day. 3. Do you see yourself in a positive way? Are you able to handle challenges and setbacks well? These are signs of mental and emotional health. 4. Having good mental health is an important part of your total health. KEY TERM 5. Mental / Emotional Health - the ability to accept yourself and others, express manage emotions and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life. 6. THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH: Mentally healthy people are, in general: (select all that apply) happy confident comfortable spending time alone or with others flexible able to cope with a wide variety of feelings and situations 7. Characteristics of good mental and emotional health Sense of Belonging feeling close to people provides you with support (joining a club or sport) Sense of Purpose recognizing that you have value helps you set and reach goals Positive Outlook seeing the bright side increases your chances of success Self-Sufficiency being confident promotes our sense of independence Healthy Self-Esteem having a healthy self-esteem helps you recover from difficulties KEY TERM 8. Mentally and emotionally healthy people are resilient - having the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty or crisis SELF-ESTEEM 9. Healthy self-esteem is necessary for good mental health. Having good self-esteem affects your overall attitude an the health choices you make. KEY TERM 10. Self-Esteem - how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself KEY TERM 11. Trying new challenges can raise your sense of Competence - having enough skills to do something HOW TO DEVELOPE SELF-ESTEEM 12. Self-talk, the encouragement or criticism that you give yourself, can affect your self-esteem. BENEFTIS OF HEALTHY SELF-ESTEEM 13. Healthy Self-Esteem Helps You:- feel proud of yourself and your abilities, skills, and accomplishments- have the confidence to confront challenges and overcome them- have the confidence to try new things IMPROVING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM 14. You can improve your self-esteem and your overall mental and emotional health. You can control many things that affect our self-esteem. IMPROVING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM 15. Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem- choose friends who value and respect you- focus on positive aspects about yourself- replace negative self-talk with supportive self-talk- work toward accomplishments rather than perfection- consider your mistakes learning opportunities- try new activities to discover your talents 16. Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem- write down your goals and the steps to achieving them- exercise regularly to feel more energized- volunteer your time to help someone- accept the things you can't change- focus your energy on changing the things you can change DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS 17. Understanding your needs and meeting them in healthy ways will help you reach your highest potential. 18. As infants, we rely on others to meet our basic needs. As we grow, our needs become more complex. 19. The psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory called the hierarchy of needs that seeks to explain human development and motivation. KEY TERM 20. Hierarchy of needs - a ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential. reaching potential feeling recognized belonging safety physical DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS 21. Maslow's hierarchy shows that once our basic physical and safety needs are met, we become interested in meeting these needs:a. The need to belong and be loved.b. the need to be valued and recognized.c. The need to reach our potential or to achieve self actualization KEY TERM 22. The fifth level of Maslow's hierarchy is reaching potential, or achieving: self-actualization - to strive to be the best you can.