The document discusses developing self-esteem. It defines self-esteem as how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself. It provides suggestions for improving self-esteem such as writing down goals, exercising regularly, volunteering, accepting things you can't change, and focusing on changing things you can. The document also discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and how developing self-awareness can help with personal growth.

1. DEVELOPING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM
9th grade healthful living
Devon Watlington

2. MENU
 After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
 Improving Your Self-Esteem
 Last Slide

3. WHAT IS MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH?
Mental and emotional health
helps you function effectively
each day.
Do you see yourself in a positive way?
Are you able to handle challenges and
setbacks well? These are signs of
mental and emotional health.

4. WHAT IS MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH?
Having good mental/emotional health is an
important part of your total health.
mental/emotional health
The ability to accept yourself and
others, express and manage emotions,
and deal with the demands and
challenges you meet in your life

5. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD MENTAL AND
EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Sense of Belonging Feeling close to people provides you with support.
Recognizing that you have value helps you
Sense of Purpose set and reach goals.
Seeing the bright side increases your chances of
Positive Outlook success.
Self-Sufficiency Being confident promotes your sense of
independence.
Having healthy self-esteem helps you recover
Healthy Self-Esteem from difficulties.

6. Close friends
encourage one
another.

7. SELF-ESTEEM
Self-esteem influences the other characteristics of
good mental health.
Self-esteem
How much you value, respect, and feel
confident about yourself

8. IMPROVING YOUR SELF-ESTEEM
Suggestions for Improving Your Self-Esteem.
Write down your goals and the steps to achieving them.
Exercise regularly to feel more energized.
Volunteer your time to help someone.
Accept the things you can’t change.
Focus your energy on changing the things you can change.

9. DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS
 The psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory
called the hierarchy of needs that seeks to explain
human development and motivation.
Hierarchy of needs
A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and
development, presented in ascending order, starting with
basic needs and building toward the need to reach your
highest potential

10. DEVELOPING
SELF-AWARENESS

11. DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS
 Maslow’s hierarchy shows that once our basic
physical and safety needs are met, we become
interested in meeting these needs:
The need to
The need to The need to be
reach our
belong and valued and
potential or to
be loved. recognized.
achieve self
actualization.

12. DEVELOPING SELF-AWARENESS
 As your self-awareness grows, you can
begin to take more control of your personal
growth.
 Reaching out to others can help you grow
by developing deeper relationships and a
stronger support group.

13. AFTER YOU READ
REVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY
1. List the characteristics of good
mental/emotional health.
Sense of belonging, sense of purpose,
positive outlook, self-sufficiency, healthy
self-esteem

14. AFTER YOU READ
REVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY
2. Define the term self-esteem.
Self-esteem is how much you
value, respect, and feel confident about
yourself.

15. AFTER YOU READ
REVIEWING FACTS AND VOCABULARY
3. Identify the five levels of Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs.
Physical needs, safety needs, need to
belong, need to achieve and be recognized,
need to reach potential