Health Unit 2 and Muscular System Vocab

The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life

The ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis

How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself

Having enough skills to do something

A ranked list of those needs essential to human growth and development, presented in ascending order, starting with basic neds and building toward the need to reach your highest potential

To strive to be the best you can

Your sense of yourself as a unique individual

Someone whose success or behavior serves as an example for you

A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique

The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves

A firm observance of core ethical values

Nonhostile comments that point out problems and encourage improvement

Signals that tell your mind and body how to react

Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells

The intentional use of unfriendly or offensive behavior

The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels

Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations

The act of becoming aware through the senses

Anything that causes stress

A physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an injury or illness

Stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person's control

A state of calm

A variety of reactions that may surface as an individual makes sense of how a loss affects him or her

Acceptance of a loss

Dealing successfully with difficult changes in your life

The act of showing sorrow or grief

Any event that has a stressful impact sufficient to overwhelm your normal coping strategies

The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen

A prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness

A lack of strong feeling, interest, or concern

An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life

A mark of shame or disapproval that results in an individual being shunned or rejected by others

A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control

An illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living

Patterns of behavior in which the rights of others or basic social rules are violated

Feeling isolated and separated from everyone else

The act of intentionally taking one's own life

A series of suicides occurring within a short period of time and involving several people in the same school or community

An ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional

A treatment process that focuses on changing unwanted behaviors through rewards and reinforcements

A treatment method designed to identify and correct distorted thinking patterns that can lead to feelings and behaviors that may be troublesome, self-defeating, or self-destructive

Helping the family function in more positive and constructive ways by explaining patterns in communication and providing support and education

Treating a group of people who have similar problems and who meet regularly with a trained counselor

The use of certain medications to treat or reduce the symptoms of a mental disorder

Muscles that act on the lining of the body's passageways and hollow internal organs

Muscles attached to bone that cause body movements

The muscle that closes a joint

The muscle that opens a joint

A type of striated muscle that forms the wall of the heart

The inflammationn of a tendon

An organ or tissue protudes through an area of weak muscle