Mental Health
Understanding your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Self-Awareness?
Working together to achieve a common goal.
What is Teamwork?
Difficulties or hardships that challenge a person.
What is Adversity?
Specific achievements or outcomes a person works toward.
What are Goals?
This part of the brain acts like your "thinking brain" and helps you make good decisions.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Managing emotions and actions in healthy ways.
What is Self-Regulation?
Sharing information, thoughts, or feelings with others.
What is Communication?
Challenges that come from outside sources.
What is External Adversity?
Controlling actions and behaviors to reach goals.
What is Self-Discipline?
This part of the brain is responsible for strong emotional reactions like fear and anger.
What is the Amygdala?
A person's point of view or way of understanding a situation.
What is Perspective?
Understanding and sharing the feelings of another person.
What is Empathy?
Challenges such as fear, anxiety, or self-doubt.
What is Internal Adversity?
The strong desire to continue working toward success.
What is Determination?
When your emotions take over and your thinking brain goes offline, you are said to be doing this.
What is Flipping Your Lid?
Using strategies to handle stress or difficult emotions.
What is Coping?
Listening carefully and considering another person's feelings before responding.
What is Empathy?
The ability to bounce back after setbacks.
What is Resilience?
Passion and perseverance toward long-term goals.
What is Grit?
As teenagers grow older, this process helps the prefrontal cortex become more effective.
What is Maturity?
Recognizing that your emotions are affecting your decisions and taking a moment to think.
What is Self-Awareness?
A group project succeeds because everyone contributes and communicates effectively.
What is Teamwork?
A student continues practicing after failing multiple times and eventually succeeds.
What is Resilience?
Doing something because it is personally rewarding rather than for a reward or prize.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Name one healthy strategy that can help reconnect the prefrontal cortex when you're angry.
Deep breathing, Taking a walk, Counting to 10, Talking to a trusted adult, Positive self-talk, Taking a break, Mindfulness