DEVELOPING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM

9th grade healthful living

Devon Watlington

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After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary

Improving Your Self-Esteem

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WHAT IS MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH?

Mental and emotional health helps you function effectively each day.

Do you see yourself in a positive way? Are you able to handle challenges and setbacks well? These are signs of mental and emotional health.

WHAT IS MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH? Having good mental/emotional health is an important part of your total health.

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

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Sense of Belonging

Sense of Purpose

Positive Outlook

Self-Sufficiency

Healthy Self-Esteem

Feeling close to people provides you with support.

Recognizing that you have value helps you set and reach goals.

Seeing the bright side increases your chances of success.

Being confident promotes your sense of independence.

Having healthy self-esteem helps you recover from difficulties.

Close friends encourage one another.

SELF-ESTEEM

Self-esteem influences the other characteristics of good mental health.

Self-esteem

How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

IMPROVING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM Suggestions for Improving Your Self-

Esteem.

Write down your goals and the steps to achieving them.

Exercise regularly to feel more energized.

Volunteer your time to help someone.

Accept the things you can’t change.

Focus your energy on changing the things you can change.

DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS

The psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory called the hierarchy of needs that seeks to explain human development and motivation.

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 to reach your highest potential

DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS

Maslow’s hierarchy shows that once our basic physical and safety needs are met, we become interested in meeting these needs:

DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS

The need to belong and be loved.

The need to be valued and recognized.

The need to reach our potential or to achieve self actualization.

DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS

As your self-awareness grows, you can begin to take more control of your

personal growth. Reaching out to others can help you

grow by developing deeper relationships and a stronger support

group.

AFTER YOU READREVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY

1. List the characteristics of good mental/emotional health.

Sense of belonging, sense of purpose, positive outlook, self-sufficiency, healthy self-esteem

AFTER YOU READREVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY

2. Define the term self-esteem.

Self-esteem is how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

AFTER YOU READREVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY

3. Identify the five levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Physical needs, safety needs, need to belong, need to achieve and be recognized, need to reach potential