1. Sept 5, 2017: Entry Task: What words comes to mind when you hear the word Unhealthy??? Today’s Target: Wellness overview
Have the students write the word or words on their notes first and then popcorn style have them share their answers with the class.

2. Health & Wellness
What Makes Us Healthy?

3. 8 Dimensions of Health

4. Physical Dimension Function of Body Systems and Processes
Body systems function efficiently
High level of immunity
Get regular check-ups
Good nutrition, exercise and sleep patterns
Adequate muscular strength and endurance
Healthy body composition
Avoid abusing/misusing drugs
Avoid accidents (seatbelt, helmets, etc.)

5. Emotional (Mental) Dimension
Feelings, thoughts, meeting the demands of life , identity.
Cope with stress/maintain emotional stability
Good self-image (feel good about who you are)
Feel good about others
Able to express your thoughts and feelings
Act independent
Accept reality
Maintain self-discipline and self-control
Accept responsibility for actions
Establish and maintain commitments

6. Social Dimension Interacting with others
Have a small group of intimate friends
Socializing frequently with friends, relatives, and others
Care for others (show genuine interest)
Able to make new friends
Have friends of all ages
Interact with others effectively and in different environments
Establish safe and healthy intimate relationships
Able to get along with others, regardless of how well you know them
Interacting with others

7. Spiritual Dimension Inner strength to live
Have hope and the will to live
Have courage to take calculated risks and face the unknown
Have a purpose
Aspire for excellence
Have ambition to achieve and accomplish
For some, believing in God or a higher power
Able to experience love, peace, and fulfillment

8. Intellectual Dimension
Ability to process and act on information
Able to clarify your values and beliefs
Utilize the ability to make healthy decisions
Able to take in new information
Have good critical thinking skills (question and evaluate information)
Set goals and implement plans to accomplish them
Handle problems and challenges rationally and in a mature manner

9. Cultural Dimension Being involved and identifying with the community
Contribute to improving community life
Involved in school or civic organizations
Attend cultural and social events
Share artistic talent and abilities with others
Accepting responsibility for public office

10. Vocational Dimension Being happy with your work
Taking on responsibility for yourself and others
Enjoying what you do
Being dependable and taking pride in your work
Feel secure in your job
Benefiting in other areas because of what you do

11. Environmental Dimension
Being involved with global/world issues
Avoid pollution (air, water, soil)
Avoid second hand smoke, radiation, etc.
Protect yourself against environmental hazards (weather, violence, etc.)
Use safe and healthy products
Recycle, reduce, and reuse products
Aware of safety (places you go, people you are around, etc.)

12. Wellness
Defined as: “purposeful, enjoyable living, or more specifically, a deliberate lifestyle choice characterized by personal responsibility and optimal enhancement…”

13. People Scenario Assignment
For the next five scenario’s, pick out the dimensions that apply, state if the person is positive or negative in that dimension, and then state why!
At the bottom of the worksheet is a wellness continuum, place each person on the continuum according to where you think their overall wellness would be!

14. Karen
Karen, a college student, is underweight, yet she is constantly worrying about how much she eats. She exercises daily until she is exhausted and often has difficulty sleeping at night. Unless she runs, she feels nauseated and cannot think clearly in class. She is extremely critical of her “unfit” friends.

15. Mary
Mary is a compulsive gossip. Cynical and negative, she has little that is good to say about others. She trusts few people and has never been able to maintain an intimate relationship. She jogs daily, watches her diet, and is in excellent physical condition.

16. Bill
Bill is not interested in a committed relationship. He believes that as long as he is open and honest, he can be involved with more then one person with few strings attached. He occasionally uses drugs with a date and overpowers them sexually while they are under the influence. If he knows his date likes him, he believes that they will want to have sex and applies physical pressure to have his way.

17. Jack
Jack is 120 pounds overweight. He has many close friends, is a great listener, communicates effectively, and is very well liked. He donates his free time to the residents of a local nursing home. He admits he would like to have a significant other, but is hiding several addictions and is afraid to get too close.

18. Ellen
Ellen, a paraplegic, eats a balanced diet, occasionally smokes marijuana, but does not drink. She swims three days a week. Ellen is married, and has two children.

19. Who is the Healthiest?
Physical health is important, but doesn’t always indicate the “healthiest” person. Usually when the other dimensions are weak, or “unhealthy”, it will in turn effect the physical dimension. All dimensions effect each other.