Mental and Emotional
Health
Lesson 1: Emotional Health
Health Class
Reminders
• Parent Teacher Conferences
• If you were not here to take the test –
you must set a time to come in the
morning or during lunch to make it up.
You are Learning Today…
• How the brain controls emotions.
• How to explain what causes emotions.
• How to identify different emotions.
Get Ready for Class
• Pick up Emotional Health Notes
• Take out Goals and Dreams Notes
• Finish the last section – questions about
Pistol Pete
• We will be turning this in today
Starter
• Describe a time when you have
felt the emotion listed under the
heading “Starter” on your notes
page.
• Use the following definition list
to help understand that
emotion.
• Afraid: Feeling fear and worry
• Angry: Feeling mad with a person,
act, or idea
• Ashamed: Feeling bad after doing
wrong
• Confident: Feeling able to do
something
• Confused: Felling unable to think
clear
• Depressed: Feeling sad, blue,
discouraged, and unhappy
• Embarrassed: Feeling worried about
what others may think
• Energetic: Feeling full of energy
• Excited: Feeling happy and aroused
• Glad: Feeling joy and pleasure
• Jealous: Feeling upset when
someone has something that you
would like to have or they get to do
something you wanted
• Lonely: Feeling alone and that
nobody cares
• Proud: Feeling pleased for doing well
• Relaxed: Feeling at ease and without
worry, calm
• Stressed: Feeling tense, tired, uneasy
and overwhelmed
Emotions
• An emotion is a feeling that is
produced in response to a life
event.
• When you feel an emotion your
brain sends out messages that
causes a feeling.
• These feelings can include:
• Physical changes
• Change in thoughts
• Change in behavior
Changes with Emotions
• A physical change could be:
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Heart racing
Eye dilating
Breathing increase
Crying
Face turning red
Changes with Emotions
• Some examples how thought
could change could be:
• Wondering what other people are
thinking or saying about you
• Trying to quickly solve the
problem
• Positive or negative self thoughts
Changes with Emotions
• Behavioral changes could be:
• Becoming shy
• Withdrawal from friends and
family
• Being more loud
• Having more energy
• Acting out or becoming more
aggressive
• Showing more affection
Assignment 1
• With a partner think how each
emotion can change the person
in each area:
1. What happens physically
2. What thoughts to you have?
3. How does your behavior
change?
1. Fear
2. Love
3. Embarrassed
Emotions
• It is important to correctly
identify emotions.
• Many time people will say they
are mad, happy, or sad because
they are basic emotions.
• In fact many times the emotion
is much different.
Emotions
• For example: A mother yells at
her family before a big party.
• She might even say she is angry
or upset.
Emotions
• But the real emotion(s) could be:
• Stress there is not enough time to
get ready.
• Worried there is not enough food
• Anxious how people will judge her
party.
Emotions
• The mom is not really upset at
her family.
• She just hasn’t taken the time to
identify her emotions and what
is causing them.
Triggers
• Not only do we need to
understand what emotions we
are feeling – we need to
understand where that emotion
came from.
Triggers
• How many times have you
woken up in the morning in a
bad mood?
• What is causing that emotion to
happen?
Triggers
• Triggers are events that cause a
person to feel an emotion.
• When you wake up in the
morning in a bad mood – What
is the trigger?
Triggers
• Did you get enough sleep?
• Do you have an assignment due
that you didn’t finish?
• Did you have a fight with your
friend the night before?
• Did your sibling eat the last
doughnut for breakfast?
Triggers
• When we understand the
emotions we are having and
what the trigger is we are able to
fix problems, make better
decisions, and stay healthy.
• Despite the changes
occurring in their
lives, bodies and
brains, most teens
are happy and well
adjusted.
• Most Teens are
emotionally out of
control.
Teens and Emotions
• There are a lot of changes both
socially and physically that affect
teen’s emotions.
• Responsibilities, expectations,
and the want of personal
freedoms all increase during
teen years.
Teens and Emotions
• Hormones also change during
adolescents (teen years).
• Hormones are chemicals that
help control how the body grows
and functions.
Teens and Emotions
• During adolescents, teens
release larger amounts of
hormones.
• This extra release of hormones
into the body can cause (not all of the
time) teens to experience extreme
emotions during a short amount
of time.
Teens and Emotions
• Think about it – you have
probably experienced or have
observed one of your friends
being on a complete high to
swing to a devastating low.
Teens and Emotions
• Or you have seen someone
“freak out” over something very
small.
• Could it be hormones? Yes and
no.
Teens and Emotions
• In the end we are all personally
responsible for our emotions
and for our actions based on
those emotions.
• We can’t blame punching the
wall on hormones.
• It was your choice and now your
consequence.
Empathy
• Not only do we need to
understand our feelings we need
to understand the feelings of
others around us.
• Empathy means to understand
how others could feel by placing
yourself in their situation.
Assignment 2 Empathy
• Read each scenario.
• Then, with a partner decide how
you think you would feel if you
were in that same situation.
• Remember people can have
more than one emotion at the
same time.
• Make sure to list all the
emotions you think might apply.
Assignment 1 Empathy Continued
1. Danny slipped on ice, fell, and
broke his arm.
2. Carrie got a new cell phone for her
birthday.
3. Somebody makes an inappropriate
joke about race, age, or gender.
How might someone that
overheard this joke feel?
4. Kate made her grandmother a
cake. How might Kate feel? How
might her grandmother feel?
5. Jennifer’s pet dog is missing.
6. Jimmy won a new IPod in a
contest.
7. How might Jimmy’s friend feel about
him winning the IPod and not them.
8. Tom was sleeping. He woke up
because his roommates were being
loud. How might Tom feel after being
awoken when he needed rest?
9. Somebody cheats in a game. How
might the others feel when they found
out about being cheated?
10. A friend just told you that their
grandfather was in the hospital and
that he might not have many more
hours to live. How might your friend
feel?
Body Language
• Besides having empathy, we can
use other tools to understand
other’s emotions.
• We can tell other’s emotions by
their body language.
• Body language is an expression
emotions with the face, hands,
and posture.
Assignment 3: Body Language Charades
Instructions:
• I’m going to pick four people to
come up and use their body
language to try and show what
type of emotion they are feeling.
• With your partner you need to
try and guess the emotion and
write it down on your notes
page.
Expressing Emotions
• As stated early, emotions are
normal.
• Emotions also need to be
expressed in a healthy manor at
the right time and place.
Assignment 4: Expressing Emotions
• With your partner – come up
with healthy ways to express
your emotions in the following
situations.
1. Your parents won’t let you
hang out with your friends this
weekend because you have to
babysit.
2. You just lost a big sports game.
3. You got caught cheating on
your assignment.
Expressing Emotions
• Sometimes people do not
express their emotions in health
ways.
• This can lead to unhealthy
situations.
• Here as some unhealthy ways
people tend to express their
feelings.
1. Hurting people physically or
emotionally
2. Destroying property
3. Non compliance (not doing
what you are asked)
4. Breaking rules on purpose
Expressing Emotions
• Expressing emotions in
unhealthy ways can lead to
serious and dangerous
consequences.
Expressing Emotions
• It is important to understand
that when someone continues
to express emotions in
unhealthy ways that person
needs help immediately.
Assignment 4: Getting Help
• With your partner list three
people who could help others
who are having problems
dealing with their emotions.
• How can that person help.
Person
1.
2.
3.
How can they help
Quick Check
1.
Chemicals that influence emotions are
called _________.
2.
Situations that cause emotions are called
__________.
3.
Which of the following statements about
emotions is false?
A. A person can’t control emotions
B. Emotions are produced by the brain.
C. Having a wide range of emotions is
healthy and normal.
D. Most teens have healthy emotional
lives.
4.
Unpleasant emotions such as sadness
A. Are always unhealthy
B. Are more common in teens than in
adults
C. Can be healthy because they help you
learn
D. Can never be controlled
5.
Which of the following affects teen’s
emotions
A.
B.
C.
D.
Inherited personality traits
Hormones
Learning and life experiences
All the above
Quick Check Answers
1.
Chemicals that influence emotions are
called HORMONES
2.
Situations that cause emotions are called
TRIGGERS
3.
Which of the following statements about
emotions is false?
A. A person can’t control emotions
B. Emotions are produced by the brain.
C. Having a wide range of emotions is
healthy and normal.
D. Most teens have healthy emotional
lives.
4.
Unpleasant emotions such as sadness
A. Are always unhealthy
B. Are more common in teens than in
adults
C. Can be healthy because they help you
learn
D. Can never be controlled
5.
Which of the following affects teen’s
emotions
A.
B.
C.
D.
Inherited personality traits
Hormones
Learning and life experiences
All the above