Aim: How can an individual identify potential risks that could lead to unintentional injury?

Do now: Write about an experience where you were physically injured. (broken bone, stitches, etc.) Could your injury have been prevented?

What is a common term people use to describe an event that leads to injury?

Class notes: Injury
Unintentional injury: can almost always be predicted and prevented. These are often caused when people take risks. They include injuries from car crashes, falls, drowning and fires.
Intentional injury: caused by violence or self-destructive behaviors. These include assault, homicide, and suicide.

Quiz Mental Health Essay

HW# 13

In a paragraph what was the riskiest thing you have ever done?
Or what us the worst injury you have ever suffered?

Aim: How can defense mechanisms be both helpful and harmful in helping us cope with difficult emotions or situations?

Do now: Students prepare to role-play their defense mechanisms

Aim: How can we cope with stress in our everyday lives? (continued)

Notes: Defense mechanisms: Unconscious coping strategies: the ways that people defend themselves against difficult feelings or emotions. Each defense mechanism involves a little bit of “fooling yourself.” By twisting the reality of the situation in your mind, it becomes easier to accept. Fooling yourself in this way allows you to put off dealing with the problem and the emotions it causes. You experience a feeling of temporary relief and can think through the problem with a clear mind.
Can be helpful coping strategies when used in moderation.
Can be hurtful to emotional growth when overused, as a person may become too dependent on defense mechanisms and may not learn to express true feelings, or confront problems.

HW #12

How do you cope with stress? Please list three positive ways and thress negative ways.

Quiz