Understanding Mental Health
Your Child’s mental health influences how he thinks, feels, and behaves in his daily life. It also affects his ability to cope with stress, overcome challenges, build relationships, and recover from life’s setbacks and hardships.
Strong mental health isn’t just the absence of mental health problems. Being mentally or emotionally healthy is much more than being free of depression, anxiety, or other psychological issues. Rather than the absence of mental illness, mental health refers to the presence of positive characteristics.
Mentally healthy people have:
- the ability to deal with stress and bounce back from challenges
- the flexibility to learn new skills and adapt to change
- self-confidence and a high sense of self-worth
- having positive relationships with people they care for, and who care for them
Help Your Child Maintain His Mental Health
You can maintain or even improve your child’s mental health by doing the following activities.
