Mental Health and Well-
Being
and
Emotional Intelligence
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Concept of Mental Health and Well-being in
Middle and Late Adolescence
Mental health is a positive concept related to the social and
emotional wellbeing of individuals and communities. Having good
mental health, or being mentally healthy, is more than just the
absence of illness, rather it’s a state of overall wellbeing.
If you have good mental well-being (or good
mental health), you are able to:
+ Feel engaged with the world around you –
you are able to build and maintain positive
+ Feel cooperatively confident in yourself – you relationships with other people and feel you
accept and worth yourself and decide can contribute to the community you live in
yourself on realistic and reasonable + Sense of well-being and satisfaction
standards.
+ Ability to enjoy life, to laugh, and to have
+ Live and work profitably more fun
+ Cope with the stresses of everyday life and + Ability to deal with life’s stresses and to
manage times of change and uncertainty. bounce back from adversity
Three Components of Mental Health
1. Emotional well-being- includes happiness, interest in life, and satisfaction.
2. Psychological well-being includes liking most parts of one's own personality, being
good at managing the responsibilities of daily life, having good relationships with
others, and being satisfied with one's own life
3. Social well-being refers to positive functioning and involves having something to
contribute to society (social contribution), feeling part of a community (social
integration), believing that society is becoming a better place for all people (social
actualization), and that the way society works makes sense to them (social
coherence).
Challenges to Mental and Well-Being
+ Work, school or home life
+ Relationships with other
+ Sleep
+ Appetite
+ Energy levels
+ Capacity to think clearly or make decision in life
+ Physical health
+ Life satisfaction and more..
What is mental illness?
A mental illness is a health problem that
significantly affects how a person feels, thinks,
behaves, and interacts with other people. It is
diagnosed according to standardized criteria.
Eating disorder
An illness that are characterized by irregular eating
habits and stress concern about size.
Can develop throughout any stage in life but typically
appear during teen years or adulthood. Normally co-exist with
different conditions such as anxiety, depression, etc.
1. Anorexia people with anorexia have a true worry of weight gain and a distorted read of their
body size and form. As a result, they eat very little and can become dangerously underweight.
Although the disorder most often begins throughout adolescence, an increasing number of
children and older adults are also being diagnosed with anorexia.
2. Bulimia nervosa is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a
cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors such as eating uncontrollably by purging and
vomiting or using laxatives in an attempt to losing weight.
3. Binge eating disorder is a severe, life-threatening but treatable eating disorder characterized
by the consumption of large quantities of food in a short period of time; a feeling of a loss of
control or unable to stop when eating; experiencing embarrassment which results stress and
anxiety; and not regularly using healthy compensatory measures to counter the binge eating
Ten Things You Can Do for Your Mental
Health
1. Value yourself
6. Quiet your mind
2. Take care of your body
7. Set realistic goals
3. Surround yourself with good
8. Break up the monotony
people
9. Avoid alcohol and other drugs
4. Give yourself
10. Get help when you need it.
5. Learn how to deal with stress
Emotional Intelligence in
Middle and Late
Adolescence
PART TWO
Find My Emotions!
Emotional Intelligence
Emotion is any disturbance of mind, feeling, passion, any excited
psychological state. However, emotional intelligence will be defined as
the ability of an individual to command respect by building
relationships or the power to urge.
Emotional Intelligence
The ability of an individual to manage and control
his or her emotions. It possesses the ability to
control the emotions of others thus influencing
other people’s feelings.
Good leader shows their Emotional Intelligence by
exhibiting all five of its key components:
1. Self-Awareness
2. Self-Management
3. Self-Motivation
4. Empathy
5. Social Skill
Emotional intelligence sometimes refers to EQ and EI
are equally necessary to balance leadership. Thus, it is
one of the most important attributes of an excellent
leader. Emotional intelligence is a range in which
everyone can be taught and get better
Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
through Self-Management
1. Remain aware of feelings
2. Keep a journal
3. Pay attention to “self-talk”
4. Remember, you have a choice
The 8 basic emotions are:
5. Disgust – feeling something wrong
1. Fear – feeling of being afraid,
or nasty.
frightened or scared.
6. Surprise – being unprepared for
2. Anger – feeling angry.
something.
3. Sadness – feeling sad. Other words
7. Trust – a positive emotion;
are sorrow, grief (a strong feeling or
admiration is strong.
example when someone has died)
8. Anticipation – in the sense of
4. Joy – feeling happy.
looking forward positively to
something which is going to
happen. Expectation is more
neutral.
