1. Ch. 2 Skills for a Healthy Life
Section 1
Building Life Skills

2. Objectives
State the importance of practicing life skills for lifelong wellness
List 10 life skills that you need for a healthy life
Predict how you can use each of the 10 life skills in your daily life.

3. Key Terms Life skill: a tool for building a healthy life
Coping: dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way
Consumer: a person who buys products or services
Media: all public forms of communication, such as TV, radio, newspaper, the Internet, and advertisements
Resource: something that you can use to help achieve a goal

4. What Are Life Skills?
Everybody wants to enjoy the benefits of a healthy life.
A healthy life doesn’t come without effort
Building a House
Life skills are tools for building a healthy life
Life skills will help improve the six components of health: physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental
Learning to use life skills will boost your wellness throughout your lifetime.
Just as an experienced builder makes a better house, you can practice life skills to build a healthier life

5. Ten Life Skills Assessing Your Health Communicating Effectively
Practicing Wellness
Coping
Being a Wise Consumer
Evaluating Media Messages
Using Community Resources
Making GREAT Decisions
Using Refusal Skills
Setting Goals

6. Assessing Your Health How healthy are you?
How do you know if you are doing the right thing for your health?
Help you evaluate
Your Health
How your actions and behaviors affect your health
Help you to find out what you need to do to improve your health

7. Communicating Effectively
Have you ever had trouble dealing with a classmate or your parents?
Struggled for the right word to say how you feel?
Teach you good communication skills which include:
Knowing how to listen
Speak effectively
Help improve your relationships with your family, friends, classmates, teachers and other adults

8. Practicing Wellness
Show you how to practice healthy behaviors daily so that you can have good life long health
Examples:
Getting enough sleep
Choosing nutritious foods
Avoiding risky behaviors

9. Coping Dealing with troubles or problems in an effective way
Will help you deal with difficult times, situations, and emotions such as:
Anger
Depression
Loss of a loved one

10. Being a Wise Consumer A consumer is a person products or services
Are you a consumer?
Help you make good decisions when buying health products and services
Show you how to decide what is appropriate for your health

11. Evaluating Media Messages
Public forms of communication such as TV, radio, movies, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements are referred to as the media
The media have a significant influence on what you learn about the world
The tools to analyze media messages
Knowing how to analyze media messages will help you make better decisions about your health

12. Using Community Resources
A resource is something that you can use to help achieve a goal
Examples:
Health clinics
Libraries
Government agencies
Wealth of services that provide help for all six components of health
Help you find these services and will describe how they can assist you

13. Making Great Decisions
Everyone wants to make the right decisions
Provide you with steps to help you make the right decisions

14. Using Refusal Skills
This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.

15. Setting Goals
This life skill will provide you with tips to help you reach your goals