1. Chapter 2
Taking Charge of Your Health
Lesson 1
Building Health Skills

2. Learning Health Skills
Health skills help you manage your health.
Health skills are also called life skills,

3. Learning Health Skills
You will have opportunities to practice health skills throughout the rest of the book.
Health skills

4. Learning Health Skills
The Health Skills
Refusal
Analyzing Influences
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
Decision Making

5. Communication Skills
Good communication is a vital health skill.

6. Communication Skills
Three health skills—interpersonal communication, refusal skills, and conflict resolution—deal with how you give and receive information.
Interpersonal communication

7. Communication Skills
Communication helps you build strong relationships with others. It involves:

8. Interpersonal Communication Skills
Use “I” messages to express your feelings.
You can use these methods to strengthen your interpersonal communication skills.

9. Communication Skills
These refusal strategies can help you say no to potentially harmful activities.

10. What You Can Do
Developing strong refusal skills helps you say no firmly, respectfully, and effectively.
Communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values

11. Conflict-Resolution Skills
Conflict resolution skills can help people resolve problems in ways that are agreeable to everyone involved.
Conflict resolution

12. Accessing Information
Use reliable sources of health information.
Knowing how to find and evaluate health information will help you

13. Accessing Information
To decide whether health information is valid,

14. Accessing Information
Valid sources of health information
Internet sites from government agencies and professional health organizations
Parents, guardians, and other trusted adults

15. Analyzing Influences
Understanding what influences you helps

16. Analyzing Influences
The more aware you are of the various influences in your life and how they affect you,

17. Your Family and Culture
Analyzing Influences
Influences on Your Health
Perceptions
Your Family and Culture
Curiosity/Fears
Media and Technology

18. Analyzing Influences

19. Analyzing Influences
These positive behaviors can contribute to all aspects of your health.

20. Self-Management Skills
Practicing healthy habits will protect your health.
When you practice healthy behaviors and manage stress,

21. Self-Management Skills
Self-management means taking charge of your own health. These are self-management skills:

22. Self-Management Skills
Exercising, relaxation, and managing time efficiently are some effective ways to manage stress.
Stress

23. Self-Management Skills
Stress is a normal part of life, but too much unrelieved stress can lead to illnesses. That’s why it’s important to learn stress-management skills.
Stress management skills

24. Advocacy
Advocacy lets you share your health knowledge.

25. Advocacy
Advocacy allows you to share health knowledge and promote healthful behaviors.
Advocacy

26. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
Define the term health skills.

27. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What are two interpersonal communication skills that can reduce your health risk?

28. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary
What is advocacy?