1. Skills for a Healthy Life

2. 10 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

3. Great Decisions Give thought to the problem Review you choices
Evaluate the consequences of each choice
Assess and choose the best choice
Think it over afterwards

4. Collaborate Talk to your friends Talk to your parents
Talk to family members
Talk to your teachers or school counselors

5. Poor Decisions Stop Admit the mistake Think Talk to someone
Go Correct the situation

6. Resisting Pressure Peer pressure Positive – friends and role models
Negative - friends
Direct Pressure – pressure that results from someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do
Indirect Pressure being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing it
(TV, raidio, magazines, movie stars, athletes)

7. Refusal Skills
Strategy used to avoid doing something you don’t want to do
Give a reason
Blame someone else
Leave the situation
Say NO
Make a joke of the situation
Change the subject
Get support from friends

8. Refusal Skills Everyone else is doing it
Don’t you want to know what it’s like?
Please, do it for me.
How do you respond?

9. Setting Goals Make sure they are safe goals Make sure they satisfy you
Make sure they are sensible
Make sure they are similar
Make sure they are specific
Make sure they are supported

10. Planning An action plan should have rewards along the way
Know your influences along the way
Keep track of your progress