APPH 1040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Learned Helplessness, Dysfunctional Family, Social Anxiety Disorder

• School: Georgia Tech
• Department: Applied Physiology
• Course: APPH 1040
• Professor: rosbruck

Document Summary

Chapter 2: promoting and preserving your psychological health. Resiliency: ability to adapt to change and stress in healthy ways. Lo1: what is psychological health: psychological health: mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions of health, traits of psychologically healthy people. Appreciate and respect the world around them: maslow"s hierarchy of needs (bottom to top) Self-actualization: self-transcendence: for a person to be healthy their needs must be met at each of these levels. Must fill lower needs before looking to higher level needs: mental health. Mental health is the thinking part of psychological health includes values, attitudes and beliefs. Intellectual health a subset of mental health is the ability to learn and use information to grow: emotional health. Emotional health is the feeling part of psych health includes emotional reactions. Emotions: feelings or complex patterns of feelings: combination of physiological arousal, feelings, cognitive processes and behavioral reactions. Emotional intelligence: someone"s ability to identify, understand, use and manage emotional states in positive ways.