Peoria Academy of Sciences Treasure Hunt

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Emotions & Mental Health

We all need to take care of our bodies. We should eat good food, exercise, and get plenty of sleep. Taking care of our physical body helps us to stay healthy, but we need to take care of our mental health, too.

Mental health and our emotions allow us to enjoy life and deal with challenges. Our mental health helps us to succeed and to enjoy friends and family.

Just like we need to see doctors when our bodies get sick, sometimes we need to see doctors if our minds don't feel well.

What Are Emotions?

Emotions are our feelings. Being happy or sad. Being mad or proud.

  Treasure Hunt Question 1 - What are emotions?

Some Emotion Basics:

• Emotions come and go.
• Emotions can be mild, intense, or anywhere between.
• There are no good or bad emotions, but there are good and bad ways of acting on emotions.

From https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/understand-emotions.html

  Treasure Hunt Question 2 - Emotions can be...

Healthy Ways to Deal with Your Emotions

When your emotions are taking charge of you, try one of these activities and take charge of your emotions.

• Play a sport or go for a walk

• Draw or color a picture

• Talk to a friend or relative

• Take some deep breaths

• Have a healthy snack or get a drink of water

• Play with your dog, cat, or other pet. Stuffed animals work too!

• Ask for a hug from someone you love

This is only a short list. What else could you try?

Let's make an Emotions Wheel

Draw or color each section of the wheel with a different emotion.

You can draw faces or activities or use one color to represent a feeling.

Now point to each feeling and think

• what makes you feel that feeling?

• do you like that feeling?

• what could you do to change it if you wanted to?

Psychiatrists and Psychologists

Psychiatrists and psychologists are people who help us with our mental health. They go to different types of schools and get different training.

Psychiatrist

A psychiatrist is a doctor that can diagnose and treat people. They will have 12 years, or more, of school and training after they graduate from high school. Psychiatrists must understand your physical body and your mental health. They have many ways to help you.

Psychologist

A psychologist helps people to understand their thoughts and feelings. They will have 8 years, or more, of school and training after high school. Psychologists use therapy to help you - usually through listening and coaching.

Psychiatrists and psychologists like to work as a team to help their patients.

Psychiatrists in Training

These doctors have already finished college and graduated from medical school, but they are not quite ready to take care of their own patients. They are in their final step of training, called a “residency.” After they finish residency, they will take a big test over all of the information that is important for doctors to know.  

  Treasure Hunt Question 3 - A psychiatrist is...