Comprehensive Health and Emotional Well-being: Definitions, Characteristics, and Emotional Responses

Define Health

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

How is health dynamic?

Health is dynamic meaning it is in a constant state of change, changes can occur quickly or slowly.

How is health is subjective?

Health means different things to different people.

Characteristics of Social health

Effective communication, productive relationships with friends and family, able to manage social situations.

Characteristics of Mental health

Low levels of stress, able to process information, confident, positive thought patterns, logical

Characteristics of physical health

Absence of illness or injury, healthy body weight, appropriate amount of fitness, optimal blood pressure and energy levels.

Characteristics of Spiritual health

Acts according to beliefs and values, sense of belonging, peace and hope, purpose

Characteristics of Emotional Health

High resilience, experience appropriate emotions, manage the expression of emotions.

Facial characteristics of happiness

Narrowed crinkled eyes, raised cheeks, teeth exposed in a smile.

Facial characteristics of sadness

eyebrows pulled together, eyes drooped, lip corners pulled down.

Facial characteristics of Disgust

Lowered brows, wrinkling on brow, lips drawn upwards, lower lip protudes.

Facial characteristics of anger

Brows pulled together, eyes opened wide, lips pressed together firmly.

Facial characteristics of surprise

Eyebrows raised but not pulled together, eyes widened, jaw dropped.

Facial characteristics of fear

eyebrows raised and pulled together, eyes widened, jaw dropped

Facial characteristics of Contempt

Lip raised on one side

Definition of rejection

An emotion, to be dismissed as inadequate, uncontrollable

Definition of failure

A feeling, to be unsuccessful in an attempt, can be controlled.

Example of rejection

You ask someone out, and they say they would rather stay friends.

Example of failure

You loose your netball grandfinal

Impacts of rejection and failure on mental health

Anxiety, self doubt and low self esteem, depression, addiction to sustances, anger

A component of the ABCDE model

Activating event, the trigger

B component of the ABCDE model

Beliefs, what you believe about A

C component of the ABCDE model

Consequences, the behaviours caused by these beliefs

D component of the ABCDE model

Dispute, challenging these beliefs

E component of the ABCDE model

Exchange, exchange the old beliefs for new ones

How can the ABCD model help people cope with rejection

Helps rationalise and address unhealthy beliefs about yourself.

Consequences of suppressing emotions

Physical pain, anxiety and depression

Growth Mindset

A belief that a persons ability can grow through effort, challenge and feedback.

Fixed Mindset

A belief that a persons ability is fixed, innate and cannot grow.

Mindset effects on behavior

Mindset effects how an individual responds and interperpates to challenge, feedback and failure

Common thinking errors

Disqualifying the positive, magnification and minimisation, magical thinking and over generalisation.

Affects of common thinking errors

Affect the way we perceive ourselves and situations as well as detaching us from reality.

Fight

confronting and fighting off the threat.

Flight

escaping by running away to safety.

Freeze

keeping absolutely still and silent to avoid detection.

What happens in the brain during the FFF response

feelings and emotions bypass prefrontal cortex, processed instead in the Amygdala with triggers the hypothalamus and then the nervous system, making the body act reactively and instinctively to a perceived threat.

Sympathetic nervous system triggers...

Fight, flight

Parasympathetic nervous system triggers...

Freeze

What is dissregulation

an inability to control or regulate one's emotional responses.

What is the window of tolerence

Is a concept to describe the optimal zone of "arousal" for a person to function in everyday life.

Hyper-arousal

a heightened state of activation/energy.

Hypo-arousal

when a person has too little arousal as the result of an overloaded parasympathetic nervous system.

What is the relationship between the FFF response and the window of tolerence

when someone is above the window of tolerance, (Hyper arousal) the flight, fight or freeze response is triggered.

How do grounding strategies regulate the nervous system

Reassures the body that it is not in danger by lowering heart rate, managing intrusive thoughts and avoiding and managing panic attacks.

Features of emotion coaching

Be aware of emotions

Connect with the person

Listen with empathy and validate

Label emotions

Find good solutions

Definition of sympathy

Feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

Definition of empathy

he action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.