Mental Health
This is the ability to recognize and manage your feelings in healthy ways.
What is emotional health?
Nicotine is an addictive substance commonly found in these products.
What are cigarettes and vapes/e-cigarettes?
This dimension of health involves your body's ability to function, including exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
What is physical health?
This is the recommended amount of sleep most teenagers should get each night.
What is 8–10 hours?
This type of goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
- Answer: What is a SMART goal?
This is a healthy strategy that can help reduce stress, such as deep breathing, exercising, or listening to music.
What is a coping skill?
This is when someone your age tries to influence your decisions or behaviors.
What is peer pressure?
This dimension involves your relationships with friends, family, and other people.
What is social health?
This nutrient helps build and repair muscles and body tissues.
What is protein?
Name two examples of healthy self-care activities that someone can do to improve their mental or emotional well-being.
Getting enough sleep, exercising, journaling, spending time with friends or family, practicing mindfulness, or taking breaks when feeling overwhelmed
This is a mental health condition characterized by ongoing feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or loss of interest in activities.
What is depression?
Alcohol is classified as this type of drug because it slows down the brain and central nervous system.
What is a depressant?
This dimension involves your ability to manage feelings and express emotions appropriately
What is emotional health?
This is the body's largest organ and helps protect you from germs and injury.
What is the skin?
Provide an example of how your environment can impact your physical health.
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This is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
What is empathy?
Why might teenagers be especially vulnerable to the effects of alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs?
Their brains are still developing, especially areas involved in decision-making, judgment, and impulse control.
This dimension involves learning new things, solving problems, and keeping your brain active.
What is intellectual health?
What is the name of the body's defense system that helps fight off infections, viruses, and harmful bacteria?
What is the immune system?
What is the term for recognizing your strengths, weaknesses, feelings, and behaviors?
What is self-awareness?
Name two warning signs that someone may be struggling with their mental health.
Changes in sleeping or eating habits, withdrawing from friends, losing interest in activities, changes in mood, or difficulty concentrating.
Name two ways substance use can negatively affect a teenager's developing brain.
It can affect memory, learning, decision-making, impulse control, and brain development.
A person feels connected to something bigger than themselves and finds meaning and purpose in life. Which dimension of health does this describe?
What is spiritual health?
What organ in your body is responsible for filtering your blood and removing waste to produce urine?
What are the kidneys?
A friend offers you a vape at a party. Explain two healthy strategies you could use to handle the situation.
Refuse confidently, give a reason, suggest an alternative activity, walk away, or seek support from a trusted adult.