1. What is Health?
Health is a combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being.
The Health Triangle:

2. Physical Health- the condition of your body
Mental & Emotional Health- the typical state of your thoughts and feelings
Social Health- the ways in which you relate to other people

3. Wellness
Wellness is a state of well-being, or balanced health
A strong and balanced triangle over time NO
YES NO

4. Health Influences
Your health is affected by both factors that you can control and factors that are beyond your control
Uncontrollable factors:
Heredity- traits passed on from parents to children
Environment
Controllable factors:
Behaviors

8. Risk Behaviors
Risk behaviors are actions or choices that may cause injury or harm to you or others
Consequences- the results of actions
Academic
Financial
Legal
Physical
Mental/Emotional
Social
Examples?

9. Reducing and Avoiding Risks
Prevention- taking steps to make sure that something does not happen
Abstinence- refusing to participate in unsafe behaviors or activities

10. Health Skills Accessing Information Self-Management
find, evaluate, choose
Self-Management
practice healthful behaviors
manage stress
stress- your body’s response to changes around you
Analyzing Influences
recognize controllable and uncontrollable factors which affect your health

11. Health Skills Interpersonal Communication Advocacy
sharing of thoughts and feelings between two or more people
refusal skills- ways to say “no” effectively
Advocacy
taking action in support of a cause
Decision Making & Goal Setting

12. Decision Making The process of making a choice or solving a problem
Based on values
values- beliefs that guide the way a person lives
what is right and wrong
what is most important

13. 6-Step Decision Making Model
State the situation
List the options
Weigh the possible outcomes
Consider values
Make a decision and act
Evaluate the decision

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Refusal Skills
Saying “no” effectively
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16. Refusal Skill Scenarios
You are at a sleepover with a group of friends. One of your friends offers to pierce everyone’s ears. You don’t like the idea, but others seem to want to do it.
You are at a Halloween party. One of your friends brings toilet paper to TP his neighbor’s house and yard. You don’t want to participate.

17. Personal Health Goals
Long-term goal- a goal that you plan to reach over an extended length of time
Short-term goal- a goal that you can reach in a short length of time

18. Reaching Your Goal
Set a specific goal and write it down (long term goal)
List the steps you will take to reach your goal (short term goals)
Get help from others who can help and support you
Set a specific time period for reaching the goal
Evaluate your progress by setting checkpoints
Reward yourself after you have reached your goal

19. Creating Your Health Goal Plan
Long-term
Specific- what? when?
Steps
Series of short-term goals
May be sequential
Support
Who can work with you or help you? How will you access them?
Timeline/Checkpoints
Exactly how will you be able to measure how you are doing?
Objective evidence
Tied to the steps you identified
Reward
Exactly how will you reward yourself?
Make reward proportional to behavioral change
All-or-nothing