Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life 1.I review all of my choices before I make a decision. 2.I think about the outcome for each possible choice. 3.I make decisions that support my beliefs. 4.I think about the decisions I make afterward, so that I can learn from them. 5.I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I make. 6.I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to make. 7.If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my decision caused. How frequently do you engage in the following behaviors? 1 = never 2 = occasionally 3 = most of the time 4 = all of the time

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life TOTAL YOUR SCORE… 20 – 28: You’re doing an excellent job of giving thought to your decisions. 12 – 19: You give some thought to your decisions, but there are some areas in which you could improve your skills at making decisions. < 12:You should be making some major changes in the ways in which you make health-related decisions.

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Contents Section 1 Building Life Skills Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Chapter 2 Skills for a Healthy Life

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Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 1 Building Life Skills Chapter 2 What Are Life Skills? Tools for building a healthy life Mostly learned through your environment, to a lesser extent inherited Using (productive) life skills takes PRACTICE

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Section 1 Building Life Skills Ten Life Skills (keys to health & happiness) 1.Assessing Your Health (reality check) How healthy are you? How are your actions and behaviors affecting your health? 2.Communicating Effectively and Productively Listen and speak effectively. 3.Practicing Wellness (don’t just talk the talk…walk the walk) Practice healthy behaviors for good life-long health. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 1 Building Life Skills Ten Life Skills 4.Coping with stress/reality of your life Deal with troubles or problems in an effective way. 5.Being a Wise Consumer / Evaluating Media Messages Make good decisions when you buy health products and services. Recognize the influence of media messages on you and your decisions. 6.Using Community Resources to help you Find and use community resources to help all six components of your health. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 1 Building Life Skills Ten Life Skills 7.Making GREAT Decisions Use the making GREAT Decisions model. 8.Using Refusal Skills (takes PRACTICE!) Say “no” to anything that makes you uncomfortable. 9.Setting Goals (short & long term) Help you visualize where you want to be. Helps you get through the hard times (plateaus, etc) Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Bellringer 1.Imagine a friend is pressuring you to sneak out of your house to go to a party. 2.Think of all the possible choices you could make in this situation. 3.List all the pros and cons of each choice you would debate over in making your decision. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Consequences are the results of your actions and decisions. Impulsive decisions can have negative consequences. Your actions & decisions are important because you are responsible for the consequences. Good decisions almost always lead to positive outcomes. Chapter 2

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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Chapter 2 Working with other people can make difficult life decisions easier. Seek advice from your parents, friends, and teachers. Learn from your mistakes. Making GREAT Decisions Together

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Chapter 2 When you make a bad decision, use… STOP, THINK, GO STOP and admit to yourself (and others) that you made a wrong decision. THINK of people you can talk to about the problem, and what you can do to fix the mistake. GO and do your best to correct the situation. Making Mistakes…

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Chapter 2 It’s your turn to practice using GREAT decisions!!!

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Identify the problem CHOICE + - outcome MAKING GREAT Decisions

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Choose one of the following situations and complete steps 1-3 of the MAKING GREAT DECISIONS model:

1.Your friend pressures you to go to a party where you know there will be drugs/alcohol, and your parents have expressed very strong feelings you about not participating in these things... 2.You’re out with friends having a great time, but you’re getting close to your parent’s curfew time… 3.You’re in a relationship with a boy/girl friend, and someone you’ve always had a crush on starts showing you attention and asks you to go out…

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Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Who Influences You? Positive influences can encourage you to improve yourself or to do good. Negative influences can pressure you to do something that is unhealthy or dangerous. Peer pressure is a feeling that you should do something because that is what your friends want. Chapter 2 Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Types of Pressure Direct pressure (face-to-face) the result of someone trying to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do. Indirect pressure (media, fads, etc) results from being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing it. Chapter 2 Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others

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Refusal Skills Refusal skills are strategies to avoid doing things that you feel pressured to do. Chapter 2 Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others

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Skills for a Healthy Life Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Bellringer Identify three goals that you hope to accomplish within the next month. Identify three goals that you hope to accomplish within the next 10 years. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Practicing Refusal Skills It helps to practice refusal skills so you will be ready for real-life pressure situations. If someone keeps pressuring you, then you may have to leave the situation or end the friendship. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Kinds of Goals Short-term goals can be achieved in days or weeks. Long-term goals may take months or years to achieve. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Six Suggestions for Setting Goals 1.Safe Goals should not be harmful to you or others. 2.Satisfying You should truly feel good about yourself when you reach your goals. 3.Sensible (realistic) Set realistic goals that you can really hope to achieve. 4.Similar Set goals that work well together and do not contradict one another. 5.Specific The steps to achieve your goals should be clear. 6.Supported Your goals should be supported by your parents or other responsible adults. Chapter 2

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals Make an Action Plan An action plan is a set of directions (or a recipe) to help you reach a goal. Track your progress regularly. Know which influences can help/hurt you along the way (helps you increase the likelihood of achieving your goal). Chapter 2

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