Monday, February 1st, 1999
Announcements:
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Lecture notes:

Mental Health (the first of the ten content areas within School Health Instruction) CONTINUED...

The concept of emotional well-being

• NAMH (The National Association of Mental Health) says emotionally healthy people:
• feel good about themselves
• feel good about others
• are able to meet the demands of life
• Other ideas about emotional well-being~emotionally healthy people:
• are competent to satisfy their own basic needs
• have a firm grasp on reality
• secure relationships with others
• have a capacity to experience a broad range of emotion and can control the expression of those emotions
• can achieve a healthy level of self-esteem
• Four characteristics of healthy self-esteem
  a.) connectedness--a sense that you belong to a group
  b.) feeling of uniqueness--feeling that you have special qualities
  c.) power--have element of control in your life
  d.) role-models--have people that you can see as a reference point in what you hope to
       achieve.

• AT HOME:
• Children experience 8 negative events for every 1 positive event.
• AT SCHOOL:
• Children experience 16 negative events for every 1 positive event.
• OFFSETTING THESE EVENTS:
• It takes 6-12 positive events to offset 1 negative event.
• This means that children need approximately 288 positive events everyday to offset all the negative
  events.