Chaper 3 - Achieving Mental and Emotional Health Flashcards
Resilient
The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Mental/emotional health
The ability to accept your-self and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life.
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.
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, and behaves.
Integrity
A firm observance of core ethical values.
Constructive criticism
Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement.
Emotions
Signals that tell your mind and 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.
