1. Compare and contrast psychosocially healthy people with their "unhealthy" counterparts. What differences do you notice in psychosocially healthy people? Compared to people who are psychosocially unhealthy, psychosocially healthy people are able to communicate and relate to others, they are also a part of the community, valid, and have strong social bonds and support. On the other hand, people who are not psychosocially healthy have trouble communicating with others, fitting into society, accepting/giving support, and sometimes being empathetic. Both psychosocially healthy and unhealthy people can benefit from learning from their behaviors, emotions, and the consequences of their actions to better themselves.
2. Define social bonds and social supports as they relate to social health. Social bonds are the connections we have with other people, and the strength of these connections vary depending on the “closeness and attachment”, as the textbook put it, that people have with each other. Social support is the people and services that a person gets their support from. Social bonds and social support are a reflection of a person’s social health, someone with poor or no social support and social bonds is likely to have poor social health because they may lack a sense of community or …show more content…
Define Seligman's learned optimism as a counterpart to learned helplessness. Learned behaviors are behaviors that are not innate or instinctual, they are learned from experience, gained through observation, or taught. Seligman’s theory of learned helpless reasons that a person who feels helpless, hopeless, or like they are constantly failing, begins to expect failure and blame others as a coping mechanism. On the other hand, learned optimism is the ability to observe, criticize, and correct negative thoughts and behaviors. Of the two learned behaviors, learned optimism is ideal because it can increase self-efficacy and result in a more positive outlook on