Flashcards
Mental/emotional health
The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life.
Resilient
The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
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, presented in ascending order, starting with basic needs and building toward the need for reaching your highest potential.
Self-actualization
To strive to become the best you can be.
Personal identity
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual.
Personality
A complex set of characteristics that make you unique.
Role model
Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you.
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.
Empathy
The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.
Defense mechanisms
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
