COU107e: It is Easier to set and Commit to a Wellness Plan When you are Aware of Your Personal Values: Mental Health and Wellness Essay, SUSS, Singapore

Question 1
(a) It is easier to set and commit to a wellness plan when you are aware of your personal values, especially those that are linked to your health and physical well-being. Download the Personal Values Questionnaire from CANVAS. Select ONE (1) Personal values domain of your choice from the NINE (9) domains, and show your completed personal values questionnaire with your TMA.

(b) Based on question (1a), discuss how your personal values can help in your commitment to your wellness plan.

(c) From the EIGHT (8) wellness domains, identify FIVE (5) wellness domains and develop a personal wellness plan based on the FIVE (5) domains with reasons why they are important to you.

(d) Anger is a very powerful feeling that can happen when you are frustrated, hurt, annoyed, or disappointed. Anger is also one of the most difficult feelings to manage because it often catches us off-guard (Robinson & McCormick, 2011.p.93). Anger triggers differ for everyone and may vary by age and gender.

Examine based on your research studies why people get angry, how men and women may differ in their anger triggers, and based on your own gender, how you deal with anger.

Question 2
The coronavirus outbreak is posing profound challenges to the way we live and work. A crisis of this scale has left many fearful that disruption—personal, financial, societal—is going to be a way of life for some time.
When the path ahead is uncertain, experts pointed out that we should act with deliberate calmness and bounded optimism. But that is hard to do in a crisis since humans are biologically wired to have a stress response (fight, flight, or freeze) when confronted with volatile environments, unpredictable events, and constant stress.

(a) Delineate the benefits of optimism during the current pandemic with supporting evidence.

(b) Demonstrate with supporting evidence how optimism can be learned and practiced for a graduating university student who is feeling pessimistic because of the current employment situation.

(c) Seligman (2011) found that a person’s well-being is influenced by personal characteristics such as resilience, and the individual’s optimism to some extent provide for a person’s well-being. Analyze with supporting evidence the relationship between optimism and resilience in a stressful situation.

(d) John has been working on a report for several weeks. He is pleased with what he has produced, and cannot wait to hear what his boss thinks. However, the next day the boss meets with John to discuss his report, and she asks John to re-write his report.

Feeling disappointed, despaired, and frustrated, John came to seek your
advice. Apply with supporting evidence the PERMA Model to help John find positivity and purpose.