Promoting Mental Health

What is Mental Health?

1. Being comfortable with yourself

2. Feeling good about your relationships with others

3. Being able to meet the demands of life

Journal

• What emotions did Magic Johnson show during his speech?

• What does Dick Vital say it is so important to do?• When was the last time you said, “I love to your

parents or loved ones?”• What does C.H.A.M.P. stand for?• What does it mean to you? Have you been a

C.H.A.M.P. lately?

Chapter 5 continuedMental Illness

1. Having low self-esteem and self-concept

2. Being unable to relate to others

3. Being incapable of coping with personal problems

4. Having difficulty distinguishing among fantasy, imagination, and realty.

Personality and Self-Concept

1. Personality2. Heredity3. Environment4. Culture5. Self-concept

Ideal Self, Public Self, and Private Self

1. Ideal• Conscience

• Ought to be• Like to be

2. Public• View you would like other to have of you.

3. Private• Actual you.

Maslow’ Hierarchy of Needs

Self-ActualizationSelf-Esteem

Love and AffectionSafety and SecurityPhysiological Needs

Emotions

• Expressions of how you feel• READ, “Children learn what they live”

Experiencing Loss of RejectionDr. David Viscott

• Loss of Love– Rejection

• Loss of Control– power

• Loss of Self-Confidence– Failure upon failure

Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways

• Hurt– Share

• Anxiety– Exercise

• Anger– Talk (vent)

• Guilt– Apologize

• Depression– Bounce

• Defense Mechanisms• (chart pg. 95)

1. Suppression• Reason• Plan• Think

• Time perspectives1. Past2. Present3. Future

Mental Health (chapter 6)Stages & Achieving Necessary Skills

• Stages1. Denial2. Anger3. Bargaining4. Depression5. Acceptance6. Hope

• (SCANS)Basic SkillsThinking SkillsPersonal Qualities

Homework1. Dream job?2. How are the 5 necessary competencies related to your dream job?3. How will the 3 educational preparations effect your future?