Mental and Emotional

Health

7th Grade Health

Chapter 3
SJHS
Do you have a Positive Outlook on
Life?

Do you deal effectively with

challenges when they arise?

People with good mental and

emotional health are able to
accept themselves and others.
 What Makes you Who You Are?

 Your Personality
 Your Self-Concept
 Your Self-Esteem
 Your Personality
 Are you outgoing and friendly?
 Are you shy?
 Are you someone who takes charge of a
situation or do you wait to be told what to
do?
 Personality-The unique combination of
feelings, thoughts and behaviors that
make you different from everyone else.
 Your Self-Concept
 When you see your reflection in the mirror, who
do you see looking back?
 How do you believe others see you?
 Self-Concept- View you have of yourself.
 Earliest influence is your family.
 Later in life it is peers, teachers, ect…
 Positive self-concept: make mistake, learn from
it and move on.
 Negative self-concept: make mistake, feels
everything they do is wrong.
 Your Self-Esteem
 Personality and self-concept affect your
self-esteem.
 Self-esteem- The way you feel about
yourself and how you value yourself.
 When things go wrong you are resilient.
 Resilience-ability to bounce back from
disappointment.
 Signs of a person with high self-esteem
 Can accept yourself including any weaknesses.
 Have self-doubt sometimes but basically like yourself.
 Admit mistakes and take responsibility for your actions.
 Feel competent in some areas and willing to learn in
others.
 Willing to take chances and sometimes fail. See this as
part of learning process.
 Believe worth as human being and don’t have to prove it
to anyone.
 Healthful habits and don’t engage in self-destructive
behaviors.
Signs of a person with low self-esteem
 Tend to let others influence them in negative
ways.
 Often engage in people pleasing and approval-
seeking behaviors.
 Get identity from external rather than internal
sources.
 May trust others actions more than their own.
 Worry too much about what others think of them.
 Skills to improve self-esteem
 Help others when appropriate
 Find something you enjoy doing that gives you feeling of
success.
 Stop making life a contest.
 Aim for improvement not perfection
 Build network of supportive relationships
 Accept mistakes as learning tools.
 Reject negative feedback from others that puts you
down.
 Practice good health habits.
 Set realistic, achievable goals.
 QUIZ
1. Which of the following is not one of the 6 main
character traits?
a. Respect c. Personality
b. Responsibility d. Citizenship
2. A combination of physical, mental/emotional and
social well being is the definition of?
a. Wellness c. Relationships
b. Lifestyle d. health
3. Having good relationships and getting along with
others is developing your social health? T or F
 QUIZ Cont.

4. A person with high self-esteem often engages

in people pleasing and approval seeking
behaviors? T or F
l What is the first step in goal-setting process?
a. Identify and overcome obstacles
b. List the steps you will take to reach goal
c. Identify specific goal and write it down
d. Get help and support from others
 More quiz!
6. The view you have of yourself is called?
a. Personality c. Imagination
b. Self-concept d. Self-admiration
7. Signs of a person with high self-esteem
a. Willing to take chances and fail
b. Don’t engage in self destructive behaviors
c. Can accept yourself and any weaknesses
d. All of the above
 Just a little bit more quiz
8. Integrity is:
a. Doing what you know is right
b. Ability to understand others beliefs
c. An eating disorder
d. Behavior that makes you better than
others.