CHAPTER 2: SKILLS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE10 LIFE SKILLS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE

ACCESSING YOUR HEALTH actions and behaviors affect your health

You can determine what you need to do to be healthy

COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVLEY Teaches good communication skills that can

help you in the real world. improve your relationships

PRACTICING WELLNESS practice healthy behaviors to get you a good

long and healthy life.

COPING Helps you deal with difficult times emotions

BEING A WISE CONSUMER Helps you make good decisions when buying Health products Services It will show you how to decide what’s

appropriate for your health

EVALUATING MEDIA MESSAGES Helps you make better decisions about your

health

USING COMMUNITY RESOURCES Will help you find services that can help you

and describe how they can help you

MAKING GREAT DECISIONS Will help you with decision making.

USING REFUSUAL SKILLS Will help you say “no” to something you don’t

want to do

SETTING GOALS Will provide tips on how to reach your goals

Making great Decisions

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Importance of Making Good Decisions

• How many decisions have you made?• And Consequences?• You are responsible for them.

Making G.R.E.A.T. Decisions

• Give Thought to the problem.

• Review your choices.

• Evaluate the consequences of each choice.

• Assess and choose the best choice.• Think it over afterward.

Making Good Decisions

• Don’t rush• Ask for advice• Collaborate!!!

Why decisions are so hard

• Decisions are tough to make

• Rushing is not good for decisions.

• Its often difficult to make a decision with no mistakes

• Decisions cause STRESS

Making Mistakes• We are HUMAN!!!!!• Don’t give up• Mistakes may be embarrassing• Mistakes may be dangerous

STOP, THINK, and GO

• Use to correct mistakes• Has 3 steps:• Stop- Admit you did wrong• Think- Who to talk to• Go- Correct the situation

SECTION 3:RESISTING PRESSURE FROM OTHERS

By: Valerie Caro

WHO INFLUENCES YOU? Your behaviors and decisions are often

influenced by many people. Peer pressure- is a feeling that you should

do something because that is what your friends want.

These influences can be positive or negative.

INFLUENCES Positive influences- it is a good thing to

have positive role models because they help you improve yourself.

Negative influences- being pressured to do something that you don’t want to do is not healthy. Negative pressure can be serious and life threatening.

STATISTICS SHOW ON POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INFLUENCES… Positive effects of peer pressure are doing well in

school, eating healthy, exercising, joining after-school programs and much more. Negative effects of peer pressure include doing drugs, smoking, shoplifting, cutting class, having sex, drinking alcohol, physical violence, doing badly in school, and so on.      

STATISTICS SHOW ON PEER PRESSURE… The Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge

Base reports that right around 30% of teens are offered drugs in middle school and high school.

• According to the National Household Survey on Drug Use and Health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 74.3% of high school students have tried alcohol.

• 3.1 million teenagers smoke, according to the American Lung Association.

• The Kaiser Foundation reports that about 50% of teenagers feel pressured with regard to sex in relationships.

TYPES OF PRESSURE Direct pressure- the pressure that results

from someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do.

Indirect pressure- the pressure that results from being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing it.

STATISTICS SHOW DIRECT AND INDIRECT PRESSURE… A variety of factors have been found to be associated

with adolescent smoking and drinking. Peer influence is one of the factors most commonly linked

to adolescent substance use. Peer influences to smoke or drink may be direct or indirect.

Direct peer pressure may occur in the form of encouragement, dares, or actual offers of the substances.

Indirect peer influences can occur when youth associate with peers who drink or smoke, increasing the availability of these substances, providing role models, establishing substance use as “normal to do”, and creating the perception that using these substances might increase social acceptance.

REFUSAL SKILLS Refusal Skill- is a strategy to avoid doing

something you don’t want to do. Practicing refusal skills can help you get

through a “real-life” situation. Refusal skills will be useful your entire life,

and you will probably make better decisions now that you make your own decisions freely and not pressured.

STATISTICS SHOW REFUSAL SKILLS… Most school-based approaches to substance

use prevention include objectives that address peer influences.

For example, peer pressure resistance training is one of the main activities of the popular DARE substance abuse prevention program.

Relatedly, an objective of Project Smart, one of the few well-evaluated substance abuse prevention programs that has been shown to be effective, is to prevent the establishment of perceived social norms that smoking and drinking are prevalent and acceptable behaviors among youth.

Refusal skill Sample response

1. Blame someone else. “My dad would kill me if I didn’t help him.”

2. Give a reason. “No, my dad said he’d pay me $20 if I helped out.”

3. Ignore the request or the pressure.

Pretend that you don’t hear them asking you. Refuse to talk about it.

4. Leave the situation. “I’ve got to get going. I’m running late.”

5. Say, “no thanks.” “No, thanks. I’m not interested.”6. Say no, and mean it. “NO, I don’t want to!”7. Keep saying no. “How many times do I have to

say no? Stop bugging me!”

Refusal skill Sample response8. Make a joke out of it. “You probably couldn’t keep up

with me on a bike ride anyway.”

9. Make an excuse. “No, I’m not feeling well.”

10. Suggest something else to do.

“Let’s go on a bike ride on Sunday instead.”

11. Change the subject. “I heard Nick and Mary are dating.”

12. Team up with someone. “Hey David, didn’t dad say we had to do the garage or we’d be grounded?”Ask people to help you in the refusal. Many voices are better than one!

SAYING NO WITH RESPECT When practicing refusal skills,

there are two basic points that are important to remember:

Always respect others: people feel pressured to do things because they don’t want to seem disrespectful.

Don’t put anyone down: you don’t have to insult someone when you are refusing to give in to their pressure.

PERSISTENT PRESSURE There will be situations where some people

might not stop bothering you. If you have said “no” many times and they still insist, the best thing to do is to leave the situation or ask for help.

If the person bothering you is your friend, you have to ask yourself if this person is a good person for you to be around and if he/she respects you.

Practicing refusal skills will help you cope with difficult situations, and the more you practice, the more confident you will be.

STATISTICS SHOW THE RIGHT TO RESIST PRESSURE… According to The Cool Spot, resisting pressure can be hard for some

people Why? They…• are afraid of being rejected by others•

want to be liked and don’t want to lose a friend•

don’t want to be made fun of•

don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings•

aren’t sure of what they really want•

don’t know how to get out of the situation

Sometimes resisting isn’t easy, but you can do it with practice (hint, hint: Refusal Skills). Keep trying, even if you don’t get it right at first.

CHAPTER: SECTION 4Setting Healthy Goals

KINDS OF GOALS Goals are targets or achievements that you

work up to. Short Term Goals are goals that can be easily

completed Long Term Goals are goals are take months

to even years to complete.

STEPS TOWARD YOUR GOAL 1. Identify Your Goal

Understand what you want to accomplish 2. Make a Plan

How are you going to accomplish your goal 3. Set your plan in Motion 4. Decide if the plan works

If it does not work, find out why and make changes

WHEN ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL When putting your plan in motion there are

certain things that need to get done Rewards: Along the way reward yourself to

keep you motivated Remind you why?

WHEN ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL Outside Factors: There is a lot of influence

that can change you or add roadblocks on your goal You need positive support and influence when

reaching a goal for both short and long-term

WHEN ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL Track Your Progress: Keep track of

progress so you can see how much you improve This can be used to motivate you Helps you get organized

TIPS ON GOALS Be specific and realistic on setting goals To make a habit, you need to keep doing it

and it will come over time. Remind yourself on your goals

Ex. Agenda, phone, repeating it to yourself There will be obstacles throughout the way

Don’t give up

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http://text.teachingmatters.org/node/8625 http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v13n1/Spohn.pdf http://psyc604.stasson.org/SimonsMorton.pdf http://

www.aaip.org/resource/collection/7A8FE5CA-DA7F-46B1-BE6F-129EB82552D4/Lesson_14.pdf

http://www.thecoolspot.gov/ http://

www.sph.emory.edu/eprc/resources/products/Morris%20Pilot%20RHC%205.4.06.pdf

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