Health Chapter 7

Managing emotionsss

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Is the ability to accept yourself & others, adapt to & manage emotions, & deal with the demands & challenges you meet in life.
Mental/emotion health
A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth & development, presented in ascending order starting with basic needs & building toward the need for reaching your highest potential.
Hierarchy of needs
The striving to become the best you can be.
Self-actualization
Is a complex set of characteristics that makes you unique.
Personality
Observing & learning from the behaviors of those around you.
Modeling
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual.
Personal identity.
The building blocks of development that help young people grow up as healthy, caring, & responsible individuals.
Development assets
Non-hostile comments that point out problems & encourage improvement.
Constructive criticism
Signals that tell your mind & body how to react.
Emotions
A chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.
Hormone
The ability to imagine & understand how someone else feels.
Empathy
The international use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.
Hostility
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions & situations.
Defense mechanisms
Holding back or restraining
Suppression
What are the 2 main influences on personality?
Heredity & environmental