Mental Self

Strategies to develop:
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
● Control self talk - Eliminate ANT's
● The ability to identify and manage (Automatic Negative Thoughts)
one's own emotions and the ● Work on not blaming others
emotions of others. ● Find others to learn from (seek out
● Develop and maintain good social mentors)
relationships.
● Solve problems under pressure. Motivation

COMPONENTS OF EMOTIONAL ● Ability to use your deepest

INTELLIGENCE emotions to move and guide you
towards your goals
○ Self-Awareness ● Motivated by things beyond
○ Self-Regulation external rewards like fame, money,
○ Motivation recognition, and acclaim.
○ Empathy
○ Social Skills Strategies to develop:

Self Awareness ● Practice being positive (attitude)

● Set SMART goals for yourself
● Ability to recognize what you are ● Identify opportunities to take
feeling initiative
● Understanding your habitual
emotional responses to events Emphaty
● Recognizing how your emotions
● Ability to sense, understand and
affect your behaviour and
respond to what other people are
Strategies to develop feeling
● Requires level of self-awareness -
● Work on identifying your emotions awareness of your emotions allow
● Ask others how you are affecting you to read emotions of others
them: Seek and accept feedback
● Work on admitting what you need Strategies to develop:
to change
● Watch your body language
● Anticipate button pushers
● Actively listen
Self Regulation ● Put yourself in their shoes before
judging
● Ability to stay focused and think ● Practice people watching
clearly when you have powerful ● Be socially present
emotions (thinks before acting)
● Controls or redirects disruptive
impulses and moods
● Ability to suspend judgments
Social Skills ● Ability to handle with eftectiveness
new and novel situations.
● Ability to manage, influence and ● Ability to learn from experience,
inspire emotions in others acquire knowledge, and adapt
● Ability to find common ground and
build rapport

Multiple Intelligence

The mind and the brain ● Introduced by Howard Gardner

● Widely used in Educational Setting
Brain: organ / physical place where the but has also been controversial
mind resides ● Originally 7 but added "Naturalistic
Intelligence" later on
● receives information for processing
● gives meaning to the information Verbal/Linguistic
● strongly influences behavior
● Ability to use words and language
Mine: is the manifestations of our ● Learners have highly developed
thoughts, perception, emotion, memory & auditory skills.
imagination that takes place within the ● Elegant speakers
brain. ● They think in words pictures

Cortex: The wrinkled outermost covering Logical/Mathematics

of the brain
● Ability to use reason, logic, and
Lobes of the Brain numbers.
● These learner ask lots of questions
● Parietal Lobe: language and touch and like to do experiments.
● Frontal Lobe: thinking, memory, ● Always curious about the world
behaviour and movement around them.
● Temporal lobe: hearing, learning
and feelings Musical
● Occipital: sight
● Ability to produce and appreciate
Cerebellum music.
● Musically inclined learners think in
● Balance and coordination sounds, rhythms, and patterns.
● Develops the ability to sing and/or
Intelligence
play an instrument
● Ability to handle with effectiveness
Intrapersonal
new novel situation
● Combination of mental capacities ● Ability to self-reflect and be aware
● Ability to perform cognitive tasks of one's inner state of being.
such as understanding the ● These learners try to understand
definition:of words and ability to their inner feelings, dreams,
follow (Alfred Binet) relationship with others, and
● Ability to respond and react strengths and weaknesses.
purpose.
Interpersonal Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of
Intelligence
● Ability to relate and understand
others. Analytical Intelligence (Componential)
● These learners try to see things
from other people's point of view in ● Focuses on planning, monitoring
order to understand how they think reflection and transfer
or feel. ● Break problems down into
● They try to maintain peace in components
group settings and encourage ● Is influential in being able to take
cooperation. apart problems and being able to
● They also use both verbal and see solutions not often seen.
non-verbal language to ● "Book Smart"
communicate with others
Practical Intelligence (Contextual)
Body/Kinesthetic
● Focuses on selecting and shaping
● Ability to control body movements real world environments and
and handle objects skillfully. experiences.
● These learners express ● Deals with the mental activity
themselves through movement. involved in attaining fit to context.
● They have good sense of balance ● "Street-Smart"
● Through interacting with the space
around them, they are able to Creative Intelligence (Experiential)
remember and process
● Focuses on developing, applying
information.
new ideas and creating solutions.
Spatial/Visual ● Deals with how well a task is
performed with regard to how
● Ability to perceive the visual familiar it is.
● These learners tend to think in
pictures and need to create vivid
mental images to retain
information.
● They enjoy looking in maps,
charts, pictures, videos, and
movies

Naturalistic

● Its ability is to recognize and name

many different types of trees,
animals, flowers, and plants.
● Has an understanding of, and
interest in, the main global
environmental issues.
Contribution of Intelligence and
Thinking to Man's Survival and
Adjustment Mental Health
TYPES OF THINKING What is Mental Health?

CONVERGENT ● Defined as a state of well-being in

which every individual realizes his
● Alines of problem solving lead to or her own potential, can cope with
single answer the normal stresses of life can
work productively and fruitfully, and
DIVERGENT
is able to make contribution to his
● From one point to many ideas or or her community.
possibilities
Conditions
CONTRIBUTION
● Eating Disorders
● Man's mind undeniably is his most ● Anxiety
important tool for survival, ● Depression
adaptation and adjustment. ● Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
● Life is God-given but its ● Phobia
sustenance is not. ● Schizophrenia
● Mind is the part of the body
Mental Health Law
created by God but the
experiences of man fill the mind. ● rights and welfare of persons with
● The man has to think of ways and mental health needs
means to overcome the many ● public healthcare system
obstacles to live meaningfully and ● mental health services (psychiatric,
happily. psychosocial, and neurologic
● With the help of the various mental ● improve the country's mental
processes such as health care facilities
problem-solving, remembering, ● promote mental health education in
analysing, examining, evaluating schools and workplaces
and others, man is able to find
solutions to his problems

IMPORTANCE

● It is necessary to understand that

positive thoughts motivate man to
do good things which make him
happy. The positive results
motivate to think again of positive
thoughts and this become a cycle
making him a better man. Thus this
becomes his guiding philosophy in
life "think good, do good, feel
good".