MENTAL HEALTH
Coach
Beavers
Mental Health
•coping with the emotions
•challenges and changes of life
•accepting and liking oneself
• varies from time to time.
Values
Principles that are important and
that guide our decisions.
Delayed gratification
Voluntarily postponing an
immediate reward in order to
complete a task before enjoying a
reward.
Ex: You have a test tomorrow. Your friends are
going to a movie. You stay home and study
and go to the movie after the test.
Positive self esteem
A person’s belief the he or she is
worthy and deserves respect.
Negative self esteem
A person’s belief that he or she is
not worthy and does not deserve
respect.
Social emotional environment
The quality of contacts a person
has with the people with whom
he or she interacts.
Building blocks of good
character
• Compassion – when you are sensitive to the
needs, wants and emotions of others.
• Good citizenship – obeying laws and rules,
showing respect for authority, and protecting the
environment.
• Fairness – abide by the rules, and are a good
sport.
• Respect – treat others as you want to be treated.
• Responsibility – so what you promise and are
accountable.
• Trustworthiness – dependable, loyal and honest.
Actions that promote selfrespect
• Pay attention to your appearance.
• Make a list of your responsible actions and review it often.
• Be a friend to your self by enjoying activities by yourself.
• Write your feelings in a journal.
• Make spending time with members of your family a priority.
• Care for others the way you would like them to care for you.
• Let other people know what helps you feel special.
• Support the interest of others.
• Ask others which of your actions show you have character.
• Get plenty of exercise and generate feelings of well-being.
Actions that promote selfesteem
• Practice life skills.
• Work on health goals.
• Demonstrate resiliency in difficult times.
• Take calculated risks.
• Make responsible decisions.
• Expect others to treat you with respect.
• Evaluate media messages that may harm your self-image.
Ways to improve the socialemotional environment
• Improves self-respect
• Provides support for responsible behavior
• Allows you to correct mistakes, forgive yourself, and move on.
• Helps you be resilient.
• Helps you to be optimistic.
• Helps to prevent and relieve stress and depression.
• Helps prevent feelings of loneliness and alienation.
• Reduces the risk of psychosomatic diseases.
personality
•Heredity – what you genetically gain
from your parents.
•Environment – where you live and the
people around you.
•Attitude – feeling or emotion a person
has toward something or someone.
•Behaviors – what you do.
personality
• Type A
• High stress people – more likely to have health problems.
• Competitive
• Impatient
• Time-oriented
• Type B
• More Flexible – less rushed
• Saying “yes” all the time means that you have not established your
priorities about what is important to you.
Time management
• Planning
• Think ahead – “expect the unexpected”
• Laughing
• Re-channel your energy
• Take a walk
• Wash a car
• Clean your room
• Read a book
• Learn to relax – physical exercise, not competitive athletics
• Support groups – friends, family, church, clubs, etc.
addiction
• A compelling desire to use a drug or engage in a specific behavior
despite negative consequences.
• Drug Addiction
• Exercise Addiction
• Gambling Addiction
• Nicotine Addiction
• Perfectionism – compelling desire to be flawless
• Relationship Addiction
• Shopping Addiction
• Technology Addiction
• Thrill seeking Addiction
• Workaholism
Formal intervention
•An action by people who want
a person to get treatment.
enabler
•A person who supports the
harmful behavior of others.
•Lending money and/or make
excuses for the addict.
TEEN ADDICTIONS
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DRUGS
EXERCISE
GAMBLING
NICOTINE
PERFECTIONISM
RELATIONSHIP
SHOPPING
TV, COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES
THRILL SEEKING
WORKAHOLISM
Mental disorder
•Biological, psychological, and/or
behavioral causes of suffering
and poor coping skills.
MENTAL DISORDER
TREATMENTS
•FORMAL INTERVENTION
•EVALUATION
•PHYSICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC
•MEDICATION
•THERAPY
•SUPPORT GROUPS
ANXIETY DISORDERS
• Real or imagined fears that prevent a person
from enjoying life
• General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
• People feel anxious most of the time when
there is nothing to worry about.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Rituals that prevent them from leading a
normal life.
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ANXIETY DISORDERS
•Panic Disorder/Panic Attack
•Intense fear accompanied by
bodily changes.
ANXIETY DISORDERS
• Phobias
•Excessive fear
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
•War Veteran
•Rape Victim
Phobia List
COGNITIVE DISORDER
•Alzheimer’s disease
CONDUCT DISORDER
•A person regularly violate the
rights of others and breaks social
rules
•Anti-Social Behavior
Eating disorders
• A person has the need to starve, to binge,
or to binge and purge
• Anorexia Nervosa – They see themselves
as overweight, exercise to extreme, vomit
and use laxatives or diuretics.
• Bulimia – binging and purging
20% of anorexics are male
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MOOD DISORDERS
•Extreme Moods
•Clinical Depression – feelings of
hopelessness, sadness, or
helplessness.
•Bipolar Disorder (manic
depression) – Great highs and
extreme lows
• 20% of teens will experience teen depression before
adulthood. Why do you think the number is so high?
EMOTIONS & STRESS
• Emotion – a specific feeling
• Mind-Body Connection – is the relationship between a
person’s thoughts, emotions, and bodily responses.
• Psychosomatic – mind to body connection
• Hypochondria
Self-Defense Mechanisms
• Projection – blaming others for actions or events.
• Displacement – releasing anger on someone or
something other than the cause of the anger.
SCHIZOPHRENIA
•Hear voices, actions words, and
emotions are confused
SOMATOFORM DISORDER
• Hypochondria
• A person has symptoms of disease, but
no physical cause
PSYCHIATRIST VS.
PSYCHOLOGIST
• Psychiatrist
• A physician who specializes in the
diagnosis and treatment and medical
disorders and can prescribe medication
• Psychologist
• A professional who specializes in the
diagnosis and counseling for mental and
emotional problems. They cannot
prescribe medicine.
Suicide
• Suicide
• Intentional taking of one’s life.
• Signs of Suicide
• Statements about suicide, “I wish I was never born”, “I wonder
where I can get a gun”.
• A change in personality
• Withdrawing from friends and family
• Losing interest in personal appearance
• Preoccupied with death and dying
• Taking risks
• Giving away possessions
• Running away