. Health is the overall well being of your mind, body and relationships with others.

• Life expectancy is the number of years a person can expect to live with current

mortality rates.

• Quality of life is the overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

Physical Health refers to how well your body functions.

Mental Health State is the state of being comfortable with yourself, others, and your

surroundings.

Emotional Health is how you react to events in your life, when the feelings you

experience are appropriate responses to events.

Mental and emotional health is the presence of positive characteristics.

Social Health is how well you get along with others.

Life expectancy and quality of life.

Physical, Mental, and Social health.

The choices you make daily can either make your health decline or improve.

Heredity are traits that you inherit that can affect your health.

Environment is the physical and social conditions that surround a person that can

influence their health.

Media can have an effect on your mental health.

Technology can be easily influenced by what people say.

Healthcare is your access/availability to it.

Behavior you can have good and bad habits.

By considering the short and long term consequences.Level of physical activity, Choice of friends.

10. Communicating- allowing yourself to express your thoughts and feelings.

Making decisions- Protecting your health, thinking of the possible outcomes, and

considering your values.

Advocacy- using communication to help others make positive health

decisions.

11. By understanding and using health information to improve your health.

12. Define the problem, Explore the alternatives, Consider the consequences, Identify our

values, Decide and act, Evaluate the results.

13. Safety, warranty, cost, consumer testing.

14. Fraud- is an illegal act of lying to gain money or property.

Quackery- is a form of health fraud involving selling of a useless product or treatment.

Chapter 2: Personality, Self-Esteem, and Emotions

1. Extroversion- describes how much you like being with other people.

Agreeableness- describes your tendency to relate to other people in a friendly way.

Conscientious- describes how responsible and self-disciplined you are.

Emotional Stability- people who are emotionally stable tend to be relaxed, secure, and

calm, even during difficult situations.

Openness to Experiences- People who are open to new experiences tend to be

curious, imaginative, and creative.

2. Heredity and environment.

3. Develop trust (birth-18months): infants depend on other people to

meet its needs.

Learn to be Independent (18months-3yrs): when a youngchild learns to do things independently.

Take Initiative (3-6yrs): children start to plan their own activities.

Develop skills (6-12yrs): children learn skills they will need as adults.

Search for identity (12-20yrs): the main challenge is a search for identity/sense of self.

Establish Intimacy(20-40yrs): the challenge will be to establish close bonds with

others.

Create and Nurture (40-65yrs): people need to stay productive and creative in all parts

of their life.

Look back with acceptance (65+): people reflect on their lives.

4. Before people can achieve self-actualization, their basic needs must be met.

5. Self-Actualisation, Self-Esteem Needs, Love and Belongingness Needs, Safety and

Security Needs, Physiological Needs.

6. Benefits of high self-esteem; able to form close relationships, realistic view of their

strengths and weaknesses.

Risks of low-self esteem; most likely to use drugs/drop out of school dont have much

respect for themselves.

7. ask for help, focus on your strengths, & help others.

8. It changes as people interact with family, friends, and community.

9. a. happiness, anger, sadness, fear

b. love, guilt, shame

10. a. It's important to recognize your emotions because it can help you have a deeper

understanding of the situation and yourself.

b. name the emotion, determine what triggered it, and think back to times

11. a. release your built-up energy by exercising, take a break, read, listen to music, and

talkthrough your feelings to see things more clearly

b. drug/alcohol abusc, withdrawing from friends or family.

12. a. denial - refusing to recognize an emotion or problem

b. projection - putting your own faults onto another person

c. reaction formation - behaving in a way opposite to the way you feel.

Chapter 3: Managing Stress

1. Threatened.

Stress is the response of your body and mind to being challenged or

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Eustress = positive stress, Distress = negative stress

Major life changes, catastrophes, everyday problems, and environmental problems.

By recognizing warning signs and identifying stressors.

Prolonged stress can weaken your immune system which protects your body from

disease. Heart disease, lowered resistance, asthma, headaches, stomach ache, etc.

How you react to stressors depends on how you assess the situation.

A perfectionist is a person who accepts nothing less than excellence.

Resilience is the ability to recover, or "bounce back,

" from extreme or prolonged stress.

a. Mental rehearsal is visually practicing an event without actually doing the event;

visualizing.

b. Biofeedback is when people learn to control one or more body

functions by monitoring their body's responses.

10. Three ways you can relieve tension are physical activity, relaxation, & biofeedback.

11. Alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage