“A Guidance Counseling Seminar”

STRONGER TOGETHER
Motivation:

WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL?

Mental Health Awareness and Positive
Psychology

Openness of the mind and heart and

listening and believing will follow.
Qualities of Positive Psychology
1. Empathy
2. Compassion
3. Kindness
3 F’s of Discipline
Friendliness
Firmness
Fairness
4. Accountability
5. Resiliency
6. Fortitude
Professional Humility
Know that you need the help of
others and you don’t know everything.

 Multi-disciplinary approach
 All systems approach
The Mindsets
I am as smart as I am ever going to be

Intelligence is Changeable
 Fixed Mindset Growth Mindset

Challenges Obstacles • Avoid challenges • Embrace challenges

• Give up easily • Persists in the face
of setbacks

Effort • See effort as • See effort as the

fruitless or worse path of mastery

Criticism Success of • Ignore useful • Learn from criticism

Others negative feedback • Find lessons and
• Feel threatened by inspiration in the
the success of success of others
others
Positive Education
Anchored Foundations, Models and Theories

 Entity and Incremental theories by Dweck

 Positive Psychology by Seligman that focus on
strengths and potentials and not repairing but
more giving person.

Achievement + Well being= Positive Education

Positive Psychology
 Self Determination
 Character Strengths and Virtues
 Pleasure, Engagement and Meaning
 Hope
 Goal
 Learned Optimism
 Psychological Capital
 High Quality Connections
 Self-Efficacy and Resilience
 Growth Mindset

“Be open to the success of others.”

Psychological Capital
 Optimism

 Hope

 Self-Efficacy

“Miracle-Gossip”
Negative Implications
Keating & Hesling 2015
 Maladjustments
 Stress
 Poor self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy,
 Confusions
 Frustrations
 Sadness and loneliness
 Unworthiness
 Hopelessness
 Anxiety
 Suicide and other mental health concerns
Age of Disruption and 4’th
Revolution

Social Psychology
The kind of the environment that we have
influence the type of behaviors of the people.
Equip students with Values

In Social Psychology, the kind of environment

that we have influence the type of behaviors of
the people.

Concerns from Grade School and High School

Study of Dr. Sagara from Dept. of Health

13-15 years old are prone in mental disorders

 Millenials Gen Z

Fantasy Dystopian

Text message Images

Optimists Realists

Want to be Discovered Work hard for success

Prolonged Adolescence Up-Aging

Gen Z 1995- 2005

 High expectation from significant other

 Sociable (personal connection)
 Secretive, very discrete
 Go for emojis; less words
 Go for images

“ A misbehaving Child is a discouraged child.”

Early Warning Signs of Mental Health Problems:

 Eating or sleeping too much or too little

 Pulling away from people and usual activities
 Having low or no energy
 Feeling numb or like nothing matters
 Having unexplained aches and pains
 Feeling helpless or hopeless
 Smoking, drinking or using drugs more than usual
 Feeling unusually confused, forgetful, on edge,
angry, upset, worried or scared
Maintaining Health Relationship
1. Rapport Building
2. Go for Observation
3. Feelings
4. Needs
5. Request
Make an action plan; then agreement
then commitment.
Equip yourself
Examples of Group Activity

1. “What makes you beautiful?”

2. Self Esteem Journal
3. Gratitude Jar
4. Gratitude Tree
5. Developing Meaning
6. Gratitude Visit
7. Best Possible Self
8. Letters for the future
9. Write your Epitaph
10. Thoughts Record