The document discusses mental health and well-being in middle and late adolescence. It defines mental health as how one's thoughts, feelings and behaviors affect their life. Having good mental health leads to positive self-image and satisfying relationships. It is common for teenagers to develop mental health problems ranging from mild to severe, including depression, anxiety and suicide. However, most young people do not receive treatment for these issues. The document emphasizes that effective treatments are available that can help people of all backgrounds, and that ignoring mental health problems prevents people from getting needed help.
The document discusses mental health and well-being in middle and late adolescence. It defines mental health as how one's thoughts, feelings and behaviors affect their life. Having good mental health leads to positive self-image and satisfying relationships. It is common for teenagers to develop mental health problems ranging from mild to severe, including depression, anxiety and suicide. However, most young people do not receive treatment for these issues. The document emphasizes that effective treatments are available that can help people of all backgrounds, and that ignoring mental health problems prevents people from getting needed help.
The document discusses mental health and well-being in middle and late adolescence. It defines mental health as how one's thoughts, feelings and behaviors affect their life. Having good mental health leads to positive self-image and satisfying relationships. It is common for teenagers to develop mental health problems ranging from mild to severe, including depression, anxiety and suicide. However, most young people do not receive treatment for these issues. The document emphasizes that effective treatments are available that can help people of all backgrounds, and that ignoring mental health problems prevents people from getting needed help.
The document discusses mental health and well-being in middle and late adolescence. It defines mental health as how one's thoughts, feelings and behaviors affect their life. Having good mental health leads to positive self-image and satisfying relationships. It is common for teenagers to develop mental health problems ranging from mild to severe, including depression, anxiety and suicide. However, most young people do not receive treatment for these issues. The document emphasizes that effective treatments are available that can help people of all backgrounds, and that ignoring mental health problems prevents people from getting needed help.
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ST. ANDREW MONTESSORI AND HIGH SCHOOL, INC.
Nancayasan, Urdaneta City
S.Y. 2021-2022
GRADE 11- Personal Development
LESSON 7
Mental Health and Well-Being in Middle and Late Adolescence
CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health. It’s the way your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors affect your life. Good mental health leads to positive self-image and in-turn, satisfying relationships with friends and others. Having good mental health helps you make good decisions and deal with life’s challenges at home, work, or school. It is not uncommon for teenagers to develop problems with their mental health. Problems can range from mild to severe, and can include depression, anxiety, body esteem issues, and suicide, among others. Unfortunately, most young people with mental health problems don’t get any treatment for them. Research shows that effective treatments are available that can help members of all racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. If you broke your leg or came down with pneumonia, you wouldn’t let it go untreated. Often however, young people ignore mental health problems thinking they will “snap out of it,” or that they are something to be ashamed of. That kind of thinking prevents people from getting the help they need. Sometimes getting help is a matter of understanding mental health issues and changing your mind about them.
Activity: MEDIA MOTIVES
1. What type of product or service is featured in your ad?
2. What approach has the advertiser used to promote or sell this product or service? Here are some of the methods that advertisers use to attract consumer: Sex Appeal Join the Bandwagon: Everyone is getting one! Highest Quality Available Financial Plans/Installment Incentives Negative Advertising Homestyle or Traditional We Try Harder Best Value New & Improved Name Brands & Logos Health & Safety 3. What message does this ad give the consumer? 4. How would you define or describe this approach to advertising? 5. Do you think that this approach is effective advertising for the product? Why or why not? 6. In what ways, if any, could any part of this advertisement impact a person’s body image? (e.g. you could take into consideration: the product itself, the models selling it, the way it is being presented, etc.)
Additional Information: Strategies for Becoming a Critical Viewer of the Media
Media messages about body shape and size will affect the way we feel about ourselves and our bodies, only if we let them. One of the ways we can protect our self- esteem and body image from the media’s narrow definitions of beauty is to become a critical viewer of the media messages we are bombarded with each day. When we effectively recognize and analyze the media messages that influence us, we remember that the media’s definitions of beauty and success do not have to define our self-image or potential. Remember:
• All media images and messages are constructions. They are NOT reflections of reality. Advertisements and other media messages have been carefully crafted with the intent to send a very specific message. • Advertisements are created to do one thing: convince you to buy or support a specific product or service. • To convince you to buy a specific product or service, advertisers will often construct an emotional experience that looks like reality. Remember that you are only seeing what the advertisers want you to see. • Advertisers create their message based on what they think you will want to see and what they think will affect you and compel you to buy their product. Just because they think their approach will work with people like you doesn’t mean it has to work with you as an individual. • As individuals, we decide how to experience the media messages we encounter. We can choose to use a filter that helps us understand what the advertiser wants us to think or believe and then choose whether we want to think or believe that message. We can choose a filter that protects our self-esteem and body image.
Through the use of magazine advertisements, we have discussed what
motivates the advertising industry and the effect that media has on body image. A final conclusion is that each student is left with strategies about how to strengthen themselves against these messages.
What Influences a Person's Self-Esteem?
Puberty and Development
Some people struggle with their self-esteem and body image when they begin puberty because it's a time when the body goes through many changes. These changes, combined with wanting to feel accepted by our friends, means it can be tempting to compare ourselves with others. The trouble with that is, not everyone grows or develops at the same time or in the same way.
Media Images and Other Outside Influences
Our tweens and early teens are a time when we become more aware of celebrities and media images — as well as how other kids look and how we fit in. We might start to compare ourselves with other people or media images ("ideals" that are frequently airbrushed). All of this can affect how we feel about ourselves and our bodies even as we grow into our teens.
Families and School
Family life can sometimes influence our body image. Some parents or coaches might be too focused on looking a certain way or "making weight" for a sports team. Family members might struggle with their own body image or criticize their kids' looks ("why do you wear your hair so long?" or "how come you can't wear pants that fit you?"). This can all influence a person's self-esteem, especially if they're sensitive to others peoples' comments. People also may experience negative comments and hurtful teasing about the way they look from classmates and peers. Although these often come from ignorance, sometimes they can affect body image and self-esteem. ST. ANDREW MONTESSORI AND HIGH SCHOOL, INC. Nancayasan, Urdaneta City S.Y. 2021-2022
Activity: Media Influences (How Ads Affected My Self-Esteem)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Name some ads that appear on TV, billboards, the internet.
1. What messages do these ads give to middle adolescents like you?
2. How have these ads affected your lifestyle, self-esteem, and values?
3. How has this lesson changed your perception about ads?
ST. ANDREW MONTESSORI AND HIGH SCHOOL, INC. Nancayasan, Urdaneta City S.Y. 2021-2022
GRADE 11- Personal Development
LESSON 8
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
More Than One Kind of Intelligence
You may have heard people mention "IQ" when talking about intellect and how smart someone is. (For example, "My brother doesn't need to study as much as I do because he has a really high IQ.") IQ stands for "intellectual quotient." It can help predict how well someone may do academically. IQ is just one measure of our abilities, though. There are many other kinds of intelligence in addition to intellect. For example, spatial intelligence is the ability to think in 3D. Musical intelligence is the ability to recognize rhythm, cadence, and tone. Athletic, artistic, and mechanical abilities are other types of intelligence. One important type of intelligence is emotional intelligence.
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage our
emotions. Emotional intelligence is sometimes called EQ (or EI) for short. Just as a high IQ can predict top test scores, a high EQ can predict success in social and emotional situations. EQ helps us build strong relationships, make good decisions, and deal with difficult situations. One way to think about EQ is that it's part of being people-smart. Understanding and getting along with people helps us be successful in almost any area of life. In fact, some studies show that EQ is more important than IQ when it comes to doing well in school or being successful at work.
Improving Your EQ
Emotional intelligence is a combination of several different skills:
a) Being Aware of Your Emotions
Most people feel many different emotions throughout the day. Some feelings (like surprise) last just a few seconds. Others may stay longer, creating a mood like happiness or sadness. Being able to notice and accurately label these everyday feelings is the most basic of all the EQ skills. Being aware of emotions — simply noticing them as we feel them — helps us manage our own emotions. It also helps us understand how other people feel. But some people might go through the entire day without really noticing their emotions. Practice recognizing emotions as you feel them. Label them in your mind (for example, by saying to yourself "I feel grateful," "I feel frustrated," etc.). Make it a daily habit to be aware of your emotions. b) Understanding How Others Feel and Why People are naturally designed to try to understand others. Part of EQ is being able to imagine how other people might feel in certain situations. It is also about understanding why they feel the way they do. Being able to imagine what emotions a person is likely to be feeling (even when you don't actually know) is called empathy. Empathy helps us care about others and build good friendships and relationships. It guides us on what to say and how to behave around someone who is feeling strong emotions. c) Managing Emotional Reactions We all get angry. We all have disappointments. Often it's important to express how you feel. But managing your reaction means knowing when, where, and how to express yourself. When you understand your emotions and know how to manage them, you can use self-control to hold a reaction if now is not the right time or place to express it. Someone who has good EQ knows it can damage relationships to react to emotions in a way that's disrespectful, too intense, too impulsive, or harmful. d) Choosing Your Mood Part of managing emotions is choosing our moods. Moods are emotional states that last a bit. We have the power to decide what mood is right for a situation, and then to get into that mood. Choosing the right mood can help someone get motivated, concentrate on a task, or try again instead of giving up. People with good EQ know that moods aren't just things that happen to us. We can control them by knowing which mood is best for a particular situation and how to get into that mood. e) EQ: Under Construction Emotional intelligence is something that develops as we get older. If it didn't, all adults would act like little kids, expressing their emotions physically through stomping, crying, hitting, yelling, and losing control! Some of the skills that make up emotional intelligence develop earlier. They may seem easier: For example, recognizing emotions seems easy once we know what to pay attention to. But the EQ skill of managing emotional reactions and choosing a mood might seem harder to master. That's because the part of the brain that's responsible for self-management continues to mature beyond our teen years. But practice helps those brain pathways develop. We can all work to build even stronger emotional intelligence skills just by recognizing what we feel, understanding how we got there, understanding how others feel and why, and putting our emotions into heartfelt words when we need to.
ACTIVITY: WRITE SHOP (Long Bond Paper with margin and indention)
Reflection on “Exploring Emotions” and “I Am”
Write on: 1. The emotions you have felt recently and the circumstances in which you felt them; 2. Your emotional self-awareness; and 3. What you learned through these exercises and how you can use these learnings to improve your emotional development.
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