1. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH with www.enthusiasticlife.net Wellness…

2. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net WELLNESS PERSPECTIVE IN HEALTH PROMOTION, DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT DEFINITION OF WELLNESS World Health Organization’s (1967): Not just the absence of illness, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Hettler’s (1980): Wellness model comprised six dimensions: social, spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, and occupational. National Wellness Institute (2010): An active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence.

3. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net WELLNESS PERSPECTIVE – REASON “Genes account for only about 25% of individual’s health and longevity, while our environment and personal behaviors account for the rest”. Butler (2010), The longevity prescription: The eight proven keys to a long, healthy life. Helping people discover the solutions and the potential that they possess makes they find strategies to avoid the development of pathology. Psychological factors play a role in physical and mental health. The overall health is the result of the interconnection among biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of life.

4. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net SPIRITUALITY * GENDER IDENTITY * CULTURAL IDENTITY * SELF CARE 1. ESSENTIAL EXERCISE * NUTRITION 5. PHYSICAL FRIENDSHIP * LOVE 2. SOCIAL THINKING * EMOTIONS * CONTROL * WORK * POSITIVE HUMOR 4. CREATIVE LEISURE * STRESS- MANAGEMENT * SELF-WORTH * REALISTIC BELIEFS 3. COPING THE INDIVISIBLE SELF THE INDIVISIBLE SELF: AN EVIDENCE-BASED MODEL OF WELLNESS T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS

5. Category 1 THE ESSENTIAL SELF SPIRITUALITY CULTURAL IDENTITY DIMENSION 1 DIMENSION 3 GENDER IDENTITY SELF-CARE DIMENSION 2 DIMENSION 4 T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net

6. Category 2 THE SOCIAL SELF FRIENDSHIP DIMENSION 5 LOVE DIMENSION 6 T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net

7. Category 3 THE COPING SELF LEISURE DIMENSION 7 STRESS MANAGEMENT DIMENSION 8 SELF-WARTH, SELF-ESTEEM DIMENSION 9 REALISTIC BELIEFS DIMENSION 10 T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net

8. Category 4 THE CREATIVE SELF THINKING DIMENSION 11 EMOTIONS DIMENSION 12 CONTROL DIMENSION 13 POSITIVE HUMOR DIMENSION 15 WORK DIMENSION 14 T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net

9. Category 5 THE PHYSICAL SELF EXERCISE DIMENSION 16 NUTRITION DIMENSION 17 T.J.SWEENEY & J.E.MYERS Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net

10. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net SPIRITUALITY GENDER IDENTITY CULTURAL IDENTITY SELF CARE ESSENTIAL SELF EXERCISE NUTRITION PHYSICAL FRIENDSHIP LOVE SOCIAL SELF THINKING EMOTIONS CONTROL WORK POSITIVE HUMOR CREATIVE LEISURE STRESS- MANAGEMENT SELF-WORTH REALISTIC BELIEFS COPING SELF SPIRITUAL WELLNESS EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INTELLECTUAL WELLNESS SOCIAL WELLNESS OCCUPATIONAL WELLNESS PHYSICAL WELLNESS

11. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net WELLNESS PERSPECTIVE – OBJECTIVES Personal Wellness Plan There is a sense or personal responsibility for one’s wellness. People develop an intentional plan for a sense of wellbeing and quality of life in all spheres. Everyone sets reasonable goals and works to make changes. Small changes in one area results in improvements in other areas Habits and choices are vitally important. We make choices about what we want to be, how we want to react, what actions we want to take to enhance our own lives.

12. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net Physical Emotional Spiritual Intellectual Social Occupational Counseling Today * Foundations of Professional Identity * 2012 * Darcy Haag Granello, Mark E.Young, pg. 420 THINGS I DO REGULARLY TO STRENGTHEN THIS DIMENSION ONE SPECIFIC GOAL I HAVE FOR IMPROVING THIS DIMENSION OF WELLNESS OBSTACLES TO MAKING THIS REGULAR PART OF MY LIFESTYLE WHY DO I REALLY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL AT ALL? WHAT IS MY MOTIVATION? BY WHAT DATE DO I EXPECT TO MAKE NOTICEABLE PROGRESS ON THIS GOAL? I COMMIT TO THIS GOAL: (PUT YOUR INITIALS HERE) DIMENSION OF WELLNESS

13. Dr MargiAnne Isaia, MD MPH www.enthusiasticlife.net REFERENCES: Granello, D. H., & Young, M., Counseling Today, Foundations of Professional Identity (2012) Roscoe, L.J., Wellness: A Review of Theory and Measurement for Counselors, Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Spring 2009 ■ Volume 87