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Way of dealing with an uncomfortable or unbearable situation or feeling.
Helpful - improving/handling a situation
Harmful - situation becomes worse and hard to handle
Example: Drugs or Alcohol, withdrawing from friends and family, etc.
What is a Coping Strategy?
Making excuses for actions or feelings.
What is Rationalization?
Can be a helpful emotion.
Can stop you from doing something (action) you know is wrong.
Can make you take action to correct a wrongdoing.
What is Guilt?
Studies how people think, feel and behave.
What is a Psychologist?
Different from Guilt because it...
Focuses on the person rather than the action.
Can be harmful because it lowers self-esteem.
What is Shame?
Physical, mental, and social.
What are the three aspects of Health?
How well your body functions.
What is Physical Health?
State of being comfortable with yourself, others, and surrounding; how you react to different situations.
What is Mental/Emotional Health?
How well you get along with others.
What is Social Health?
Refers to how much you respect yourself and like yourself.
What is Self-Esteem?
Heredity and Environment (family, friends, culture)
What is "How Personality Forms"?
The overall well-being of your body, mind, and relationships.
What is Health?
The period of time a person is expected to live.
What is Life Expectancy?
Degree of overall satisfaction a person gets from life.
What is Quality of Life?
Consists of behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual.
What is Personality?
Not expressed in the same way by all people.
Love
Guilt
What are Learned Emotions?
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Emotional Stability
Openness to experiences
What are the 5 central traits to describe personality?
When all needs are met, individuals can achieve their full potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
A reaction to a situation that involves your
Body
Mind
Behavior
What are Emotions?
Expressed by people in all cultures.
Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger
What are Primary Emotions?
1)Confronting the situation head on and improve on it.
2) Release built-up energy by exercising, cleaning, or being active in some other way.
3) Take a break by reading a book, listening to music, taking a walk etc.
4) Talk through feelings with family members, friends, counselor, or other trusted adult.
What are Helpful Ways of Coping?
An arrangement of human needs that need to be met
Physical needs
Need to feel safe
Need to belong
Need for esteem
What is "Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs"?
Heredity
Environment (both physical & social)
Media/Technology
Healthcare
Behavior
What are Common Influences on Health?
1) Developing Trust
2) Learning to be Independent
3) Taking Initiative
4) Developing Skills
5) Searching for Identity
6) Establishing Intimacy
7) Creating and Nurturing
8) Looking Back with Acceptance
What are the Stages of Personality Development?
Self-esteem is not constant
Changes based on influences, situations, etc.
Increases or decreases as people interact with others
Varies from childhood through to adulthood