Mental Health and
Well-being in Middle
and Late Adolescence
Personal Development
Humanities and Social Sciences Department RCLManalo
Preliminary Activities
Read through the answer key and correct the
students’ misconceptions
❑ One person in every 100 persons develops
schizophrenia.
❑ A person who has one or both parents with
mental illness is more likely to develop
mental illness.
FACT OR
FICTION? ❑ Mental illness is contagious.
❑ Mental illness tends to begin during
adolescence.
1 ❑ Poor parenting causes schizophrenia
❑ Illegal drug use causes mental illness.
❑ Mental illness can be cured with willpower.
❑ People with mental illness never get better.
❑ Developmental disabilities are a form of
mental illness.
FACT OR ❑ Poor people are more likely to have mental
FICTION? illness than those who are not
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Name some ads that appear on
TV, billboards, the internet.
❑What messages do these ads give
to middle adolescents like you?
Media
Influences ❑How have these ads affected your
lifestyle, self-esteem, and value
Test your Mood Yes No
Have you felt like you just cannot go on or had thoughts of death
or dying?
Do you feel sad, depressed or down most of the time?
Are you unable to enjoy the things that once gave you pleasure?
Do you feel tired and/or lack energy most of the time?
Do you have trouble sleeping or do you sleep too much?
Do you find it difficult to concentrate or make decisions?
Have you had an increase or decrease in appetite or weight?
Have you had feelings of worthlessness or guilt?
Have you felt frightened or panicky for no apparent reason at all?
Have you felt restless and found it difficult to sit still?
Have you been feeling anxious or worried?
SIGNS OF TROUBLE: DEPRESSION
DISCUSSION:
MENTAL HEALTH AND
WELL-BEING IN MIDDLE
AND LATE ADOLESCENCE
▪ It’s
the way your thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors affect your life. Good mental
health leads to positive self-image and
in-turn, satisfying relationships with
friends and others.
What is mental
health ? ▪ Havinggood mental health helps you
make good decisions and deal with life’s
challenges at home, work, or school.
It is not uncommon
for teenagers to
develop problems
with their mental
health. Problems
can range from mild
to severe, and can
include depression,
anxiety, body
esteem issues, and
suicide, among
others.
Caption
▪ Research shows that effective
treatments are available that
can help members of all racial,
ethnic, and cultural groups.
Unfortunately, most
young people with
mental health
problems don’t get
any treatment for
them.
▪ If you broke your leg or came down
with pneumonia, you wouldn’t let it
go untreated. Often however, young
people ignore mental health
problems thinking they will “snap out
of it,” or that they are something to
be ashamed of.
▪ That kind of thinking prevents people
from getting the help they need.
Sometimes getting help is a matter of
understanding mental health issues
and changing your mind about
1. SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
This is may be defined as one’s thoughts and feelings
about one’s overall state of being.
2, PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY
Self-efficacy is one’s perception of one’s value or
worth, effectiveness, and ability in performing a task or
activity.
CONCEPTS OF 3. AUTONOMY
MENTAL
HEALTH Deals with one’s capacity to separate one’s identity from
other significant persons like parents, lovers, and special
friends.
,4. COMPETENCE Related to self-esteem and self- identity.
Competence is the perception of one’s capacity to effectively
perform a function or activity using specific skills and knowledge,
and achieving the desired results at a given time.
5. INTERGENERATIONAL DEPENDENCE Refers to the
relationship between individuals who belong to different,
autonomous persons during a specific period of time.
6. SELF-ACTUALIZATION OF ONES INTELLECTUAL AND
CONCEPTS OF EMOTIONAL POTENTIAL, AMONG OTHERS.
MENTAL HEALTH
▪ This means that once a person fulfils his or her physiological
needs, security and safety needs, emotional and social needs
and self-esteem needs, the next need to be fulfilled is
self-actualization. Self-Actualization is about fulfilling one’s
perceived potentials, becoming the person that one has always
aspired for.
mental health ❑Essence or spirituality
and well-being
model ❑Work and leisure
five life tasks ❑Friendship
developed in 1991
by Witmer and Sweeney ❑Love
❑Self-direction
twelve sub-tasks ❑ Sense of worth
as major ❑ Sense of control
components of
wellness ❑ Realistic beliefs
or ❑ Emotional awareness and
well-being that coping
comprise the ❑ Problem solving and
Wheel of creativity
Wellness. ❑ Sense of humor
❑ nutrition
Myers, Witmer,
Sweeney I
❑ physical exercise
2000 ❑ self- care
❑ stress management
❑ gender identity
❑ cultural identify
5 popular steps to improve mental health
and well-being
▪ CONNECT- with the people around you.
▪ BE ACTIVE- physical activity generates a positive sense of well ness
▪ KEEP LEARNING- Learning new skills or obtaining new knowledge can
give you a sense of achievement and new confidence.
▪ GIVE TO OTHERS- Giving to others is not limited to money or other
materials things.
▪ TAKE NOTICE- be in the here and now, be in the present moment, be
aware of what is happening around you, your own thoughts and feelings,
and the physical sensations that you experience.
▪ How does a healthy self-concept or
self-identity influence or affect one’s
mental health?
▪ Inyour day to day observations of your
Assignment friends, how does mental health
manifest itself? Use either the WHO six
factors of mental health or the five life
EXPLAIN
tasks by Myers, Sweeney, and Witmer
to evaluate your observations.