Taking Responsibility for your Health CHAPTER 2 Taking Responsibility for your Health

Question of the Day What does the word ADVOCACY mean? 1. To communicate effectively. 2. To get information. 3. To fight for something. 4. To be responsible.

Lesson 1 Skills for Balanced Health Accessing Information – getting information How do we get information? Not all sources of information are equally valid. That’s why you need to verify your sources.

2. Self-Management: to take responsibility for your physical/mental/emotional and social health.

3. Analyzing Influences: Being able to recognize the ways in which internal and external factors affect your health choices.

4. Interpersonal Communication The sharing of thoughts and feelings between two or more people. Saying No to risk behaviors. Developing your speaking and listening skills.

5. Advocate Standing up for something. Taking action to support a cause.

6. Decision Making/Goal Setting Decision making is the process of making a choice or solving a problem. Goal Setting: Goals can give direction to your behavior and a pattern to your decisions. They allow you to focus on the future. A goal can measure success.

Stress Your body’s response to changes around you.

Stress Management Is identifying sources of stress and learning how to handle them in ways that promote good mental and emotional health. What are some ways we can reduce stress?

Refusal Skills Ways to say NO effectively. Learning how to be confident enough to say No.

Conflict A conflict is a disagreement between 2 people with opposing viewpoints Conflicts may occur when someone says NO. Conflicts are simply indicate a difference of opinion.

Conflict Resolution Conflict resolution is finding a solution to a disagreement or preventing it from becoming a larger conflict. What can you do to resolve a conflict?