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Health

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A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and the absence of disease or infirmity

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Social Health

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The ability to form meaningful relationships and adapt to different social situations

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Physical Health

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The functioning of the body and the capacity to perform daily activities

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Mental Health

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The state of a person’s brain and the ability to think and process information

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Spiritual Health

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The ideas, beliefs, values and ethics of a person. It involves a guiding sense of meaning or value, and reflection of your place in the world

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Emotional Health

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The ability to express emotions and feelings positively

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Why is health/wellbeing dynamic?

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Constantly changes and could change slowly or quickly

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Why is health/wellbeing subjective?

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Health can mean different things to different people

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Name characteristics of optimal physical health

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Healthy body weight, appropriate levels of fitness, optimal blood pressure, absence of disease/injury/illness, optimal levels of energy

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Name characteristics of social health

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Supportive network of friends and family, effective communication with others, supportive and well functioning family, ability to adapt to social situations, productive relationships

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Name characteristics of mental health

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Low levels of stress and anxiety, optimal self esteem, positive thought patterns, ability to think and process info, high level of confidence, use logic and reasoning to form opinions and make decisions

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Name characteristics of emotional health

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High level of resilience, recognise and understand emotional actions/reactions, experience appropriate emotions in given scenarios, effectively express and manage actions/reactions

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Name characteristics of spiritual health

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Acting according to beliefs/values, a sense of belonging/connections to the world, positive meaning/place/purpose, peace & hope, developed personal beliefs/values

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What are emotions?

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Conscious mental reactions subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed toward a specific object.

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What are feelings?

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Generated thoughts about emotions, experienced consciously, mind experiences feelings.

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What is rejection?

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An emotion that cannot be controlled meaning to feel dismissed as inadequate, unacceptable or faulty.

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Give examples of rejection and failure.

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Not getting the position you applied for, your friends don’t want to be friends with you anymore, getting low grades, not winning a game.

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Outline the impact of rejection on mental health.

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Rejection can impact mental health through self-doubt, low self-esteem, self-isolation, depression, anger, reliance on substances and can also create stress/anxiety.

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What is the ABCDE model?

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Activating event, beliefs, consequences, dispute, exchange.

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What is an activating event?

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The event you face that triggers unwanted responses.

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What are beliefs in the ABCDE model?

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The thoughts and beliefs you hold about the Activating Event.

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What are consequences in the ABCDE model?

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The internal/external behaviours that result from your Beliefs.

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What is dispute in the ABCDE model?

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Challenging the beliefs/thoughts you had. Are they rational?

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What is exchange in the ABCDE model?

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Swapping old beliefs/thoughts for new, balanced, rational ones.

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What is failure?
A feeling that can be controlled but is the feeling of a lack of success in doing/achieving something.
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What are common causes and effects of failure?
Lack of supportive relationships, low self-esteem, poor self-concept, negative self-talk, shame, unrealistic expectations, making comparisons to others.
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What are physiological consequences of not dealing with emotions?
Tightening of muscles, physical pain, nausea, digestive problems, chronic illness.
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What are psychological consequences of not dealing with emotions?
Irritability, moodiness, anxiety, depression.
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What are reasons people might suppress emotions?
Stereotypes, to conform, past experiences may be too difficult to process, to replace an uncomfortable feeling with a more acceptable one.
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What is mindset?
A habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.
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What is a growth mindset?
They believe their intelligence, talents and personalities are traits that can grow through efforts, challenge and feedback.
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What is a fixed mindset?
They believe that their intelligence, talents and personalities are fixed traits that are innate and cannot grow.
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What are features of a fixed mindset?
Have a desire for approval and success, avoid challenge and risk taking, view mistakes as an indicator of talent/intellect.
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What are features of a growth mindset?
Believe that learning/growth is possible in any area, embrace challenge and feedback, have a desire for trying new things.
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What are common thinking errors?
Cognitive distortions and are irrational beliefs.
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What is emotional reasoning?
The assumption that emotions reflect the way things are.
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What is magnification/minimisation?
Exaggerating or minimising the importance of an event.
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What is overgeneralisation?
Making broad interpretations of one or more events.
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What is magical thinking?
The belief that thoughts, actions or emotions influence unrelated situations.
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What is personalisation?
The belief that you are entirely responsible for events outside your control.
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What is disqualifying the positive?
Recognising only the negative aspects and ignoring the positive of a situation.
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What is jumping to conclusions?
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little/no evidence.
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What are 'should' statements?
The belief that things should be a certain way.
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What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Thinking in absolutes.
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What is the impact of common thinking errors on emotional experience?
Can cause stress and have a distorted outlook that is negative.
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What is the fight, flight, freeze response?
A survival mechanism, involuntary response, triggered by a threatening situation.
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What is the fight response?
Confronting the threat.
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What is the flight response?
Running away from the threat to safety.
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What is the freeze response?
Keeping still to avoid detection.
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What is the brain's response to a threat?
Threatening situation -> amygdala tells your body to panic -> prefrontal cortex assesses and makes decisions based on the situation -> decides fight, flight or freeze.
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What is the nervous system's response to a threat?
The amygdala tells the body to panic -> amygdala sends signals to the hypothalamus -> the hypothalamus stimulates the autonomic nervous system -> the autonomic nervous system activates the sympathetic nervous system which drives the fight or flight response or the parasympathetic which drives the freeze response.
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What is dysregulation?
The inability to control or regulate one’s emotional responses. It can lead to mood swings and not being able to manage their emotions.
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What is the window of tolerance?
A concept that describes the optimal zone of 'arousal' for a person to function in everyday life.
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What is hyperarousal?
Above the window of tolerance that’s a heightened state of activation/energy.
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What is hypoarousal?
Below the window of tolerance and when a person has too little arousal due to an overloaded parasympathetic nervous system.
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What are grounding strategies?
Methods to support individuals to focus on what’s going around them instead of their thoughts.
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List grounding strategies.
Box breathing, finger tapping, 5-4-3-2-1, reorientating yourself, mindful orientation, finding your feet, body awareness, imagine yourself somewhere safe, categories, describe an activity, mental exercises.
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What are the steps of emotion coaching?
Be aware of emotions, connect with the person, listen with empathy and validate, label emotions, find good solutions.
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What is step 1 of emotion coaching?
Be aware of emotions – Tuning into the person’s feelings and learn how they express emotions.
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What is step 2 of emotion coaching?
Connect with the person – using emotional moments as opportunities to connect.
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What is step 3 of emotion coaching?
Listen with empathy and validate – Respecting their feelings and showing you understand.
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What is step 4 of emotion coaching?
Label emotions – Helping the person identify the emotions.
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What is step 5 of emotion coaching?
Find good solutions – Exploring solutions together and not expecting too much.
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What is empathy?
The action of understanding/being sensitive to the thoughts/vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts and experiences of someone.
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What is sympathy?
A feeling of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.

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