Mental Health lesson 2- body image

Lesson 2: Body Image/Self Esteem

Mental Health Unit

● Assess my personal health.
● Illustrate how media messages influence health behaviors.
● Identify the importance of accepting responsibility for personal health behaviors

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Body Image: how you view yourself and your abilities

This includes your

• appearance
• personality
• skills and abilities
• weaknesses

Important Vocabulary

Important Vocabulary

★ Self-esteem: How a person feels about

themselves and their worth or value.

★ Stigma: Negative attitudes, beliefs, and

stereotypes that society holds towards
people with mental health challenges, often
leading to discrimination or exclusion.

Important Vocabulary

Positive Self- Concept: feeling good about yourself and

your abilities.

This empowers you to

■feel liked and accepted

■feel proud of what you do

■believe in yourself

Body Image Influence

Who or what influences

how you feel about yourself?

Poll

Does TV influence our health

• Yes

• Sometimes

• No

Poll

Do our friends influence our health?

• Yes

• Sometimes

• No

Poll

Do our parents influence our health?

• Yes

• Sometimes

• No

Body Image Influence

Can be impacted by

• family
• friends
• life events and personal experiences
• media (TV, movies, and social media

Multiple Choice

What is Body Image?

• How you feel about your body

• How you feel others perceive you

• How you see or picture yourself

• All of the above

Essential Question
How do images in the media influence the

way I feel about myself?

Beautiful VS Impossible

Teens are told that all body types are
beautiful but ads promote unrealistic and impossible body images.

Take a look at all of the edits that are
made to this beautiful model.

Perfect VS Impossible

The model already looks perfect. But
on the billboards that we see the
image of beauty is actually
impossible.

Sometimes we don't think we look
beautiful because we are comparing

ourselves to an impossible image.

Poll

When I flip through beauty magazines, I:

• Compare

  myself to the models and feel bad because I don’t measure up.

• Remind myself that it’s all airbrushing, lighting and make-up, and I know that no one really looks like that.

Body Image

1. Have you ever made yourself feel bad by comparing yourself with others? 

2. Is it good to compare yourself with others?  

3. Can we be too critical of our appearance or body image? 

4. What happens when we do that? 

5. Can self-criticism sometimes be good for us? 

6. How do we know when we've crossed the line and are being too hard on ourselves?

Multiple Select

The media does not play a role in influencing body pressures.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following contribute to a lack of self-esteem and confidence?

• Video Game Characters

• TV stars

• Models on commercials and social media

• All the above

★ A person who feels good about the way she or

he looks is more likely to have a positive
self-image.

★ Trying to look the same as a model, an

athlete, or someone else is not a healthy
approach to body image.

Positive Body Image

★ Focus more attention and thought on what you

like about yourself.

★ Practice daily affirmations in the mirror
★ Ask family and friends to encourage you to be

more positive about yourself

★ Accept what's not perfect.

Self Esteem- how to improve it

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Poll

I spend the majority of my emotional energy on:

• Enjoying family, friends, work/school, hobbies and life.

• Longing for and pursuing the perfect body.

Great job!

Next class we will talk about how to be emotionally healthy.

Have a great day!