3.+Strategies+for+Teens

"Mental and emotional well-being is essential to overall health. Positive mental health allows people to realize their full potential, cope with the stresses of life, work productively, and make meaningful contributions to their communities. Early childhood experiences have lasting, measurable consequences later in life; therefore, fostering emotional well-being from the earliest stages of life helps build a foundation for overall health and well-being." (NPC, pg 48, 2011)


 * 6 Strategies to improve your self-esteem: **
 * Participate in sports or after school activities you enjoy
 * Identify your current strengths to enhance your feelings of self-worth
 * Learn to think positively
 * Think/Talk about yourself positively; Avoid negative thoughts about yourself
 * Believe you can accomplish what you set out to do
 * Get rid of negative influences from you life
 * 6 Strategies to help identify your strengths: **
 * Think about what activities YOU like doing? Why do you think you like them?
 * What about school do you like? Is there a class you feel you do best in? What about that class do you like?
 * Who do you admire/look up too? Why do you admire/look up to them?
 * Who do you have a healthy positive relationship with? Why do you think that relationship is healthy and positive? How does that differ from other relationships you have?
 * Challenge yourself to find other strengths/skills you may not know you have.
 * Participate in sports/clubs/and after school activities to increase your knowledge and abilities in other areas.

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965) is a short multiple choice10 question self-assessment of how high you determine your self-esteem to be.The highest possible score is a 30, the higher your score the higher you believe your self-esteem to be. To take this self assessment click on this link The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
 * Test your current Level of Self-Esteem: **

Clicking on this link will take you to a page where you will fill out multiple choice questions. This self assessment will determine your main areas of strength and provide you with further information for increasing your skills in other areas. This will help you determine your strengths and weaknesses as well as how you can use them to your benefit. Self-assessment of strengths
 * Test your strengths: **

This next link will provide you with a form to keep track of what strategies you might have learned here that you will use to promote more positive self-esteem as well as to provide yourself with a list of your strengths that you may wish to have available. [|Strengths and Strategies form for wiki.docx]
 * A Form to Track Your Progress: **