Your Mental and
Emotional Health
Chapter 7
Lesson #1
Pages 168-177
Your Mental and
Emotional Health
• Objective 1: Identify the characteristics of
good mental and emotional health.
• Objective 2: Identify Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs.
• Objective 3: Identify the different influences
on personality.
Open Book Quiz
• Pass out lesson 1 quiz and a
scantron.
• Remember, you may use your
book.
• Use a #2 pencil
• Please fill out the scantron as
shown below.
Name: (your first and last name)
Subject: Ch 7 quiz #1
Class: (___ hour)
The Characteristics of Good
Mental/Emotional Health
• The ability to accept yourself and others,
adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with
the demands and challenges you meet in life.
• People with good mental/emotional health
demonstrate… (pg. 171)
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Positive Self-Esteem (Feelings of confidence)
Sense of Belonging (Family, Friends, Teachers)
Sense of Purpose (Recognizing your value)
Positive Outlook (Sees the bright side & has hope)
Autonomy (Having confidence to make safe &
responsible decisions)
Don’t use your book
On a sheet of paper:
draw this pyramid and fill in the each level of
humans needs (most basic at the bottom)
Maslow’s Pyramid Of
Needs
• Hierarchy of NeedsA ranked list of those
needs essential to
human growth and
development,
presented in
ascending order.
– Starts with basic
needs and builds
towards
reaching your
highest potential
(bottom to top)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
• Physical (Physiological) Needs
– Survival Needs (food, water, sleep and shelter)
• Safety Needs
– People who make you feel secure (family, home,
financial, and medical insurance)
• Belonging Needs
– Feeling loved or wanted, sense of confidence, and
strengthen your mental/emotional health.
• Feeling Recognized
– Being appreciated or valued by family, friends &
peers. Being able to do something well.
• Potential Needs
– Self-Actualization (being the best you can be)
• Having courage to make changes in your life in order to reach
your goals. This is a lifelong process.
Applying MAslow’s
needs!
Write down your answers to the
following questions
1. What should you do physically
in order to succeed?
2. What should you do mentally
and socially in order to
succeed?
3. What qualities do you look for
in a friend?
4. List the good qualities you
already have
Understanding Your
Personality (pg. 175)
• Personality: A complex set of characteristics
that makes you unique.
• Personality includes an individual’s emotional
make-up, attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors.
• It is composed of tendencies that you are born
with some, and some you develop in response
to life situations and experiences
• Heredity and environment are the two main
influences on you personality.
Your Personality And…
• Personality and Heredity
– Heredity plays a role in determining a person’s basic
intellectual abilities and temperament or emotional
tendencies. What are some examples?
• Personality and Environment
– Your surroundings (environment) have an influence
that impact your developing personality. How?
– Modeling- observing and learning from the behaviors
of those around you, sometimes without knowing
• Personality and Behavior
– Most control over your behavior
– Decision making, how you make them, and
recognizing the consequences of those decisions
Interactive study
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