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Health – Grade 7
Quarter 3– Module 1: Mental Health and Understanding Stress
First Edition, 2020

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 Health 7
Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module 1
Mental Health and
Understanding Stress

Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to Health Education 7 Third Quarter Module 1 Mental health and

understanding stress!
This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators
from Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by Officer in Charge, Schools
Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin in partnership with
the Local Government of Pasig thru its Mayor, Hon. Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The
writers utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using the Most
Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) while overcoming their personal, social,
and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the five C’s namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

For the Learner:

Welcome to the Health 7 Self-Learning Module 1 on Mental health and

understanding stress!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an
active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module. 

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.

EXPECTATION
After going through this module, you are expected to:
 • explain the factors that affect the promotion of good mental health H7PH-
IIIa-b-28
• explain that stress is normal and inevitable H7PH-IIIa-b-29
• differentiate eustress from distress H7PH-IIIa-b-30
• identify situations that cause feelings of anxiety or stress H7PH-IIIa-b-31

Specifically, you should be able to:

1. Apply a challenging work that is perceived to be neither too difficult or
too easy.
2. Understand the value of self – esteem to ourselves.
3. Analyze that our goals may start out to be easy overtime may tend to
distress.

PRE-TEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer on your
notebook.
1. What do you call the dimension of health that deals with a person’s thoughts
and feelings?
A. Physical dimension C. Emotional dimension
B. Mental dimension D. Social dimension

2. What do you call the physical and emotional response to a sad and
unexpected situation due to some experiences?
A. Anxiety C. Grief
B. Stress D. Love

3. Any situation that may cause stress to a person is called?

A. Love C. Distress
B. Stressor D. Eustress

4. Which of the following is considered stressful?

A. Losing your money C. Attending a party
B. Going to a new place D. Witnessing a tribal dance

5. If you feel happy when you got an outstanding grade in the exam after long
hours of review, what kind of response is that?
A. Eustress C. Distress
B. Anxiety D. Stress
RECAP
Direction: Read each question carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is
correct and FALSE if it is not.
 1. Decision making is an important skill to teach children of all ages,
because parents want children to grow up to be independent,
responsible, and happy adults.
2. Critical thinking is not an important process during adolescence.
3. Skipping breakfast helps you perform well in school.
4. The symptoms of hypoglycemia are dizziness, headaches, and fainting.
5. Eating in fast food restaurant is a healthy habit.

INTRODUCTION

Mental and Emotional health

Health is most often being related to solely the physical well-being of

an individual. Little do people know that health is more than looking
healthy. As we learned in the previous modules, health has various
dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, social, moral- spiritual, and
environmental. Aside from looking healthy, an individual must also be
feeling, thinking, and interacting healthy to achieve wellness.
This module will focus on your mental and emotional health. It will
help you be aware of how your health is affected with the way you think and
feel.
 LESSON

STRESS

Do you think stress is always something negative? Actually, stress can

either be negative or positive!
Stress
-is defined as the physiological (or physical) and emotional responses
to a significant or unexpected change or disruption in one’s life (Payne, et
al., 2005).
It may also refer to “what you feel when you react to pressure, either
from the outside world (school, family, friends) or from yourself i.e. wanting
to fit in, wanting to do well in school.
Stressor
-refers to the things that make a person stressed.
There are two different kinds of stress
1. Eustress
-refers to a positive and healthy response of the body from a stressor.
It produces good effects to one’s well-being. For example, a person, who
studied for long hours then tool and got an outstanding grade in the exam,
may feel happiness and enjoyment.
2. Distress
-refers to a negative reaction of the body towards a given stressor. It
may cause problems in health, alter the mood and emotions, and even affect
the way a person woke up late for work, he or she may feel anger and
disappointment.

Is stress Normal and Inevitable?

Yes! Stress is normal and inevitable
Everyday we experience different kinds of stress. Some are good and
some are not, that no one is spared from experiencing stress because it is
part of our lives.
COMMON AREAS OF STRESSOR THAT AFFECT STRESS
Common stressors that affect adolescents:
 Schools
 Parents
 Peer groups
 Lack of life skills
 Personal thoughts

SCHOOL
People have different learning styles, interests and strenghts.
Unfortunately, school is a standard structure that doesn’t take this
differences into consideration.
PARENTS
a. High expectations are a big stress and challenge for young
people.
b. After school activities are important but become a stressor if
parents expect their teens to be involved in too many.
c. Stressed parents can transfer their stress on to their children.

LACK OF LIFE SKILLS

Skills such as organization and time management are important stress
preventers. Likewise, an absence of these valuable skills can make life more
hectic and chaotic.
The effects of stress in your body
Stress is any change in the environment that requires your body to
react and adjust in response. The body reacts to these changes with
physical, mental and emotional responses.
Some sources of stress for teens include:

 Schools demands and frustrations.

 Negative thoughts or feelings about the themselves.
 Changes in their bodies.
 Problems with friends and/or peers at school.
 Unsafe living environment/ neighborhood.
 Separation or divorce of parents.
 Chronic illness or severe problems in the family.
 Death of loved one.
 Moving or changing schools.
 Taking on too many activities or having too high expectations.
 Family financial problems.
Mental health
-includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects
how we think, feel, and act. It also determine how we handle stress, relate to
others, and make choices.

Factors that contributes to mental health problems:

 Biological factor, such as genes or brain chemistry.
 Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse;
 Family history of mental health problems.

Emotional health
-it means you’re aware of your emotions. You can deal with them,
whether they’re positive or negative. Emotionally healthy people still feel
stress, anger, and sadness. But they know how to manage their negative
feelings.

Ways to improve or maintain good emotional health

 Be aware of your emotions and reactions.

 Express your feelings in appropriate ways.
 Think before you act.
 Manage stress
 Strive for balance.
 Take care of your physical health.
 Connect with others.
 Find purpose and meaning.
 Stay positive.
 ACTIVITIES

Activity 1: LET’S BRAINSTORM

Directions:
1. Ask four of your friends to give words that are related to mental and
emotional health. Write their responses on the semantic web below.
2. Complete the web below.
3. Come up with your own definition of mental and emotional health.

Mental
 Emotional

Activity 2: DOODLE IT
Directions:
1. Answer the question, “what are you thinking and feeling right now?”
2. Draw pictures or write words and phrases that best describe your
answer.

Let’s Reflect
 a. Do the things you think and feel affect your everyday life.
b. How does your body respond to the things you think and feel?
c. When was the last time you got stressed?
d. What is stress?

Activity 3: Describing stress

Procedure:
1. Reflect on the question, How do you picture a person who is
experiencing stress?
2. Draw him or her, or write description in the box below.
3. On the other box, paste a picture of your happy self.

Drawing Picture

Questions:
List all the activities that you do to relieve oneself from stress.

WRAP – UP
Directions: Read the following situations. Draw a smiling face ( 😊 )if you
consider it as a source of eustress and a sad face ( ☹) if it causes distress.

_____1. Choosing a gift for a friend _____ 6. Losing your money

_____2. Arguing with a classmate _____ 7. Getting a birthday surprise
_____3. Going to a new place _____ 8. Attending a party
_____4. Having a new born sibling _____ 9. Witnessing a tribal dance
_____5. Getting a failing mark _____ 10. Watching a traditional play.
 VALUING

People who have good emotional health can still have emotional
problems or mental illness. Mental illness often has a physical cause. This
could be from a chemical imbalance in the brain. Stress and problems with
family, work, or school can trigger mental illness or make it worse.
Counseling, support groups, and medicines can help people who have
emotional problems or mental illness. If you have an ongoing emotional
problem, talk to your doctor. He or she can help you find the right type of
treatment.

POST TEST
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer on your
notebook.
1. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also determine how we
handle stress, relate to others, and make choices
A. Mental health C. Emotional health
B. Eustress D. Distress

2. Which of the following best describes eustress?

A. Arguing with siblings C. Getting high grades
B. Losing loved ones D. Having separated parents

3. It refers to the things that make a person stressed.

A. Stress C. Distress
B. Eustress D. Stressor

4. It is defined as the physiological and emotional responses to a

significant or unexpected change or disruption in one’s life.
A. Stress C. Distress
B. Eustress D. Stressor

5. If you woke late for work, feeling angry and disappointment you are
having a kind of stress called.
A. Stress C. Distress
B. Eustress D. Stressor
 KEY TO CORRECTION

RECAP PRE – TEST WRAP UP POST - TEST

1. True 1. C 1. 😊 6. ☹ 1. A
2. False 2. B 2. ☹ 7. 😊 2. C
3. False 3. B 3. 😊 8. 😊 3. D
4. True 4. A 4. 😊 9. 😊 4. A
5. False 5. A 5. ☹ 10. 😊 5. C
7. 😊

REFERENCES
Books:

 Physical Education & Health 7, Teachers Guide, First Edition, 2017

 Physical Education & Health 7, Learner’s Material First Edition, 2017

Online References
https://www.aacap.org
https://www.uhhospitals.org
https://www.undestood.org
www.mycollegesuccessstory.com
https://www.mentalhealth.gov
https://www.healthline.com
https://familydoctor.org
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

RUEL D. CALUMAG AND FRANKLIN F. FORTU

WRITERS

RHEA P. MUYCO
EDITOR

JEFFERSON C. ORDILLAS
EDITOR

CRISTY A. ARELLANO
VIDEO/POWERPOINT PRESENTER/EDITOR

ANNA JEAN J. FERNANDEZ

VIDEO/POWERPOINT PRESENTER/EDITOR/ILLUSTRATOR

JOELIE C. SY
SCHOOL SUBJECT COORDINATOR/FOCAL PERSON/ REVIEWER

MA. AMPARO G. SILVELA

SCHOOL HEAD

NORLYN D. CONDE EdD

EDUCATION PROGRAM SUPERVISOR

MAPEH/SPA/SPS/HOPE/A&D/Sports
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