Healthy living guide

Healthy living guide

Assignment 1

Competency

Explain the role of motivation and emotion in human behavior.

Scenario

You are working as a life coach for clients trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle. You want to try and help your clients understand how motivation and emotion have a huge impact on achieving their goals. You decide to create a guide using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and a theory on emotions to assist your clients.

Instructions

In your guide, focus on one area of healthy living your clients might want to focus on. This can be nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, improved social connections, stress management, smoking cessation, etc. Using that area, create a guide that includes the following:

1. Utilizing each of the five levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, explain how motivation stems from each level and how it relates to your area of lifestyle improvement.
2. For example, at the first level of Maslow's hierarchy, the person is motivated by physiological needs for survival. They will recognize the importance of maintaining good health, which includes proper nutrition.
3. Throughout your client’s health journey, various emotions will play a crucial role in them reaching their goal of adopting a healthier lifestyle. Pick one of the following theories and reflect on the practical implications of how emotions may help or hinder this person’s improvement in the lifestyle area you have chosen.
4. James-Lange theory
5. Cannon-Bard theory
6. Schachter-Singer Two-Factor theory Assignment 2 Competency Identify common psychological diagnoses, therapies, and treatments.
   ScenarioFor this assignment, you will be taking on the role of the Keynote Speaker at Rasmussen University’s “Mental Health Matters” Conference. As a presenter, you will discuss the importance of mental health literacy—caring for one’s mental health. To accompany the presentation, you will create a PowerPoint highlighting the main ideas. The goal of your presentation is to bring awareness to mental health issues and encourage your fellow classmates and professors to do things that will help them improve their mental health and quality of life.
   InstructionsStudents will create a PowerPoint for this assignment. The PowerPoint will address the following topics:
   • Define mental health literacy and discuss its importance. Include the benefits of good mental health literacy, and effects of poor mental health literacy.
   • Discuss how social stigma affects mental health using examples.
   • Offer strategies to improve our mental health (i.e., self-care).
   • Provide resources for those struggling with mental health issues (i.e., national hotlines, governmental agencies, online sources, etc.)