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Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life
1. I review all of my choices before I make a decision.2. I think about the outcome for each possible choice.3. I make decisions that support my beliefs.4. I think about the decisions I make afterward, so that I can
learn from them.5. I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I
make.6. I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to
make.7. If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my
decision caused.
How frequently do you engage in the following behaviors?1 = never2 = occasionally3 = most of the time4 = all of the time
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Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life
TOTAL YOUR SCORE…
20 – 28: You’re doing an excellent job of giving thought to your
decisions.
12 – 19: You give some thought to your decisions, but there are
some areas in which you could improve your skills at making decisions.
< 12: You should be making some major changes in the
ways in which you make health-related decisions.
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Contents• Section 1 Building Life Skills
• Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions
• Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others
• Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
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Skills for a Skills for a Healthy LifeHealthy Life
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Skills for a Healthy Life
Section 1Building Life Skills
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Section 1 Building Life SkillsChapter 2
What Are Life Skills?
• Tools for building a healthy life
• Mostly learned through your environment, to a lesser extent inherited
• Using (productive) life skills takes PRACTICE
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Section 1 Building Life Skills
Ten Life Skills (keys to health & happiness)
1. Assessing Your Health (reality check)• How healthy are you? • How are your actions and behaviors
affecting your health?2. Communicating Effectively and Productively
• Listen and speak effectively. 3. Practicing Wellness (don’t just talk the talk…walk the walk)
• Practice healthy behaviors for good life-long health.
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Section 1 Building Life Skills
Ten Life Skills4. Coping with stress/reality of your life
• Deal with troubles or problems in an effective way.
5. Being a Wise Consumer / Evaluating Media Messages • Make good decisions when you buy health
products and services.• Recognize the influence of media messages on
you and your decisions.6. Using Community Resources to help you
• Find and use community resources to help all six components of your health.
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Section 1 Building Life Skills
Ten Life Skills
8. Making GREAT Decisions • Use the making GREAT Decisions model.
8. Using Refusal Skills (takes PRACTICE!)• Say “no” to anything that makes you
uncomfortable.9. Setting Goals (short & long term)
• Help you visualize where you want to be.• Helps you get through the hard times
(plateaus, etc)
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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions
Bellringer1. Imagine a friend is pressuring you to sneak
out of your house to go to a party.
2. Think of all the possible choices you could make in this situation.
3. List all the pros and cons of each choice you would debate over in making your decision.
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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions
Consequences are the results of your actions and decisions.
• Impulsive decisions can have negative consequences.
• Your actions & decisions are important because you are responsible for the consequences.
• Good decisions almost always lead to positive outcomes.
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Section 2Making GREAT Decisions
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• Working with other people can make difficult life decisions easier.
• Seek advice from your parents, friends, and teachers.
• Learn from your mistakes.
Making GREAT Decisions Together
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When you make a bad decision, use…
STOP, THINK, GOSTOP, THINK, GO
• STOP and admit to yourself (and others) that you made a wrong decision.
• THINK of people you can talk to about the problem, and what you can do to fix the mistake.
• GO and do your best to correct the situation.
Making Mistakes…
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It’s your turnto practice
using GREAT decisions!!!
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Identify the problem
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MAKING GREAT Decisions
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Choose one of the following situations
and complete steps 1-3 of the MAKING GREAT
DECISIONS model:
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1. Your friend pressures you to go to a party where you know there will be drugs/alcohol, and your parents have expressed very strong feelings you about not participating in these things...
2. You’re out with friends having a great time, but you’re getting close to your parent’s curfew time…
3. You’re in a relationship with a boy/girl friend, and someone you’ve always had a crush on starts showing you attention and asks you to go out…
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Skills for a Healthy Life
Section 3Resisting Pressure from Others
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Who Influences You?
• Positive influences can encourage you to improve yourself or to do good.
• Negative influences can pressure you to do something that is unhealthy or dangerous.
• Peer pressure is a feeling that you should do something because that is what your friends want.
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Types of Pressure
Direct pressure (face-to-face)the result of someone trying to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do.
Indirect pressure (media, fads, etc) results from being swayed to do something
because people you look up to are doing it.
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Refusal Skills
• Refusal skills are strategies to avoid doing things that you feel pressured to do.
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Skills for a Healthy Life
Section 4Setting Healthy Goals
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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
Bellringer
• Identify three goals that you hope to accomplish within the next month.
• Identify three goals that you hope to accomplish within the next 10 years.
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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
Practicing Refusal Skills
• It helps to practice refusal skills so you will be ready for real-life pressure situations.
• If someone keeps pressuring you, then you may have to leave the situation or end the friendship.
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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
Kinds of Goals
• Short-term goals can be achieved in days or weeks.
• Long-term goals may take months or years to achieve.
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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
Six Suggestions for Setting Goals
1. Safe Goals should not be harmful to you or others.2. Satisfying You should truly feel good about
yourself when you reach your goals.3. Sensible (realistic) Set realistic goals that you
can really hope to achieve.4. Similar Set goals that work well together and do
not contradict one another.5. Specific The steps to achieve your goals should
be clear.6. Supported Your goals should be supported by
your parents or other responsible adults.
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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals
Make an Action Plan
• An action plan is a set of directions (or a recipe) to help you reach a goal.
• Track your progress regularly.
• Know which influences can help/hurt you along the way (helps you increase the likelihood of achieving your goal).
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