Ch. #7 - Achieving Good Mental Health (H.S.)

The ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.

• Mental / Emotional Health

• Personality

• Self-Actualization

• Personal Identity

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.

• Hierarchy of Needs

• Modeling

• Developmental Assets

• Mental / Emotional Health

The striving to become the best you can be.

• Mental / Emotional Health

• Personal Identity

• Self-Actualization

• Modeling

A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.

• Personal Identity

• Developmental Assets

• Mental / Emotional Health

• Personality

Observing and learning from the behaviors of those around you.

• Personal Identity

• Modeling

• Empathy

• Suppression

Your sense of yourself as a unique individual.

• Personal Identity

• Emotions

• Self-Actualization

• Modeling

The building blocks of development that help young people grow as healthy, caring, and responsible individuals.

• Emotions

• Defense Mechanisms

• Developmental Assets

• Hierarchy of Needs

Non-hostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement.

• Empathy

• Hostility

• Defense Mechanisms

• Constructive Criticism

Signals that tell your mind and body how to react.

• Emotions

• Empathy

• Hostility

• Suppression

A chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.

• Adrenaline

• Hormone

• Endorphins

• Emotions