Lesson 3 What emotion are you experiencing right now? Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond.

Lesson 3

What emotion are you experiencing right now?

Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond in a healthy way.

Understanding Emotions

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Analyze how emotions influence your overall health.

Appraise the significance of changes occurring during adolescence.

Explore ways to demonstrate empathy toward others.

Demonstrate communication skills in building and maintaining healthy relationships.

In this lesson, you’ll learn to:

Lesson Objectives

Lesson 3 Understanding Your Emotions

Emotions are your responses to certain thoughts and events.

Communicating emotions effectively is key to building and maintaining healthy relationships.

What Are Emotions?


Effects of Emotions on Your Health Triangle

Anger

Joy

Fear

Joy can prompt the release of brain chemicals that cause you to experience warmth and a sense of well-being.

Feeling this way promotes mental/emotional health and positively influences your relationships and thus your social health.

Lesson 3 Identifying Your Emotions

The many changes brought on by hormones during puberty may cause you to swing quickly between extreme emotions.


Effects of Hormones on Emotions


Happiness

Happiness can be described as being satisfied or feeling positive.

When you are happy, you usually feel energetic, creative, and sociable.


Sadness is a normal, healthy reaction to difficult events.

Feelings of sadness may be mild and fleeting, or they may be deep and long-lasting.

When you are sad, you may feel easily discouraged and have less energy.

Sadness

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Love

Love involves:

Strong affection.

Deep concern.

Supporting the growth and individual needs of another person.

Respecting that person’s boundaries and values.

Identifying Your Emotions

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When you feel empathy, you feel connected to another person’s emotions.

Demonstrating empathy can help build and maintain your relationships.

An empathetic person listens attentively and communicates understanding toward others.

Empathy


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Fear

Feelings of fear can increase your alertness and help you escape from potentially harmful situations.

However, fear that results from an imagined threat can prevent people from leading normal lives.

This type of fear is called a phobia and requires professional help.


Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders

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Guilt

Guilt often results from acting against one’s values or from failing to act when action might have brought about a better outcome.

Being able to recognize when you are not responsible for a negative outcome will save you from needless guilt.

Guilt can act as your conscience and motivate positive changes in behavior.



Anger

Anger is a common reaction to being emotionally hurt or physically harmed.

When anger isn’t handled in constructive ways, it can result in violence.

Hostility can be particularly damaging, not only to others but also to the hostile person.

Lesson 3 Quick Review

Q. Anger sometimes results in

_______, which can damage a relationship.

Choose the most appropriate option.

1. happiness

2. violence

3. empathy

4. sadness

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A. Anger sometimes results in violence, which can damage a

relationship.

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Quick Review - Answer


Q. List seven basic emotions.

Provide a short answer to the question given below.

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A. Seven basic emotions are:

1. Happiness

2. Sadness

3. Love

4. Empathy

5. Fear

6. Guilt

7. Anger



Q. How might guilty feelings lead to positive results?

Provide a short answer to the question given below.

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Lesson 3 Quick Review - Answer

A. Guilt can sometimes act as one’s conscience and motivate

positive changes in behavior. In this way guilty feelings might sometimes lead to positive results.



List three situations that may cause a teen to feel anger.

Then, explain how each of these situations can be dealt with

in healthful ways.

Provide a suitable description.

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Emotions are your responses to certain thoughts and events.

Communicating emotions effectively is key to building and maintaining healthy relationships.

Understanding Your Emotions

An emotion is a signal that tells your body and mind how to react.

An emotion is a signal that tells your body and mind how to react.

What Are Emotions?

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Effects of Hormones on Emotions

The many changes brought on by hormones during puberty may cause you to swing quickly between extreme emotions.



A hormone is a chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.

A hormone is a chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells.

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When you feel empathy, you feel connected to another person’s emotions.

Demonstrating empathy can help build and maintain your relationships.

An empathetic person listens attentively and communicates understanding toward others.

Empathy

Empathy is the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.

Empathy is the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels.


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Anger is a common reaction to being emotionally hurt or physically harmed.

When anger isn’t handled in constructive ways, it can result in violence.

Hostility can be particularly damaging, not only to others but also to the hostile person.

Anger

Hostility refers to the intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.

Hostility refers to the intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior.



Fear can trigger physical changes, including increased perspiration, an increase in heart rate, and a tightening of muscles.

This “fight-or-flight” response enables you to defend yourself or flee the scene.

Anger

Joy

Fear



Strong emotions like anger can cause both physical and mental responses, such as an increase in heart rate and feelings of distress.

Inappropriate responses, such as lashing out, can be harmful to you or to people around you.

Joy

Fear

Anger


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A. Correct! Anger sometimes results in violence, which can

damage a relationship.



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Lesson 3 What emotion are you experiencing right now? Accurately identifying what you are feeling is an important first step toward knowing how to respond.

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