Chapter 3 (Achieving Mental and Emotional Health) Flashcards
The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.
Mental/Emotional Health
The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Resilient
Feeling close to family members, friends, teachers, and others provides you with support.
Sense of belonging
Recognizing that you have value and importance as a person lets you set and reach goals.
Sense of purpose
Seeing the bright side of life reduces stress and increases your chances of success.
Positive outlook
Having the confidence to make responsible decisions promotes your sense of independence and self-assurance.
Self-sufficiency
Having _____ helps you accept and recover from difficulties.
Healthy self-esteem
How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself
Self-esteem
Having enough skills to do something
Competence
A ranked list of needs essetial to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need to reach your highest potential.
Hierarchy of needs
To strive to be the best you can
Self-actualization
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual
Personal identity
Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you.
Role model
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique
Personality
The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves
Character
A firm observance of core ethical values
Integrity
Nonhostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement
Constructive Criticism
You are honest, loyal, and reliable-you do what you say you’ll do. You have the couarge to do the right thing, and you don’t lie, cheat, or steal
Trustworthiness
You are considerate of others and accept their differences. You make good decisions that show you _____ your health and the health of others.
Respect
You use self-control- you think before you actand consider the consequences. You are accountable for your choices and decisions, and don’t blame others for your actions. You try your best and complete projects you start, even when things don’t go as planned.
Responsibility
You play by the rules, take turns, and share. You are open minded, and listen to others. You don’t take advantage of others and you don’t blame others.
Fairness
A ______ person is kind and compassionate. You express gratitude, are forgiving toward others, and want to help people in need.
Caring
Demonstrating good ______ means you advocate for a safe and healthy environment at school and in your community. You take an interest in the world around you. You obey the rules and laws, and show respect for authority.
Citizenship
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.
Emotions
Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activites of different body cells.
Hormones
The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
Hostility
The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels
Empathy
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Defense mechanisms
Being satisfied and felling positive are good descriptions of ______
Happiness
Feeling ____ is normal, healthy reaction to difficult life events. They may be mild, or deep and long lasting.
Sadness
Strong affection, deep concern, and respect are some expressions of _____.
Love
When you are startled by someone or something, you may feel _____. Feelings of _____ can increase your alertness and help you escape from possibly harmful situations.
Fear
_____ is the feeling of shame and regret that occurs when you act against your values.
Guilt
_____ is a normal reaction to being emotionally or physically harmed. If not handled in a constructive way it can lead to violence. Another form of ____ is hostility.
Anger
Making up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another area. (+/-)
Compensation
Fantasizing to escape an unpleasant reality (+/-)
Daydreaming
Refusing to recognize an emotion or problem (-)
Denial
Transferring emotionsfrom the original source to another (-)
Displacement
An individual deals with emotional conflict by emphasizing the amusing. (+/-)
Humor
Assuming the qualities of someone you admire. (+)
Identification
Overestimation of the desirable qualities and underestimation of a person’s limitations. (-)
Idealization
Putting your own fault onto someone else, blame. (-)
Projection
Making excuses for actions or feelings. (-)
Rationalization
Behaving in a manner opposite to the way you are feeling. (-)
Reaction formation
Reverting to immature behavior to express emotions. (-)
Regression
Preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering consciousness.Done unknowingly. (-)
Repression
Direction your energy into a useful rather than an unacceptable goal. (+)
Sublimination
Intentional exculsion of material from consiousness. (+/-)
Suppression
Attempting to reverse the effects of a negative act of feeling of guilt by compensating wiht a good act. (+)
Undoing
