Chapter 3 - Achieving Mental & emotional Health

Mental/Emotional Health

The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and dela with the demands and challenges you meet in your life

Resilient

The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

Self-esteem

How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

Competence

Having enough skills to do something

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 towards the need to reach your highest potential

Self-actualization

To strive to be the best you can

Personal Identity

Your sense of yourself as a unique individual

Role Model

someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you

Personality

A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique

Character

The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, adn behaves

Integrity

A firm observance of core ethical values

constructive criticism

Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement

Eotions

Signals that tell your mind and your body how to react

Hormones

Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells

Hostility

The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior

Empathy

The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels

Defense Mechanisms

Mental processes that protect individuals from or strong or stressful emotions and situation