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Taking Charge of your Health

Taking Charge of your Health. Lesson 1: Building Health Skills. Health Skills. Specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of our health. Health skills help you manage your health. Communication Skills. Good communication is a vital health skill

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Taking Charge of your Health

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  1. Taking Charge of your Health Lesson 1: Building Health Skills

  2. Health Skills • Specific tools and strategies to maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of our health. • Health skills help you manage your health.

  3. Communication Skills • Good communication is a vital health skill • Interpersonal Communication: the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people • Use “I” messages to express your feelings • Communicate with respect and caring- calm and respectful tone • Be an active listener

  4. Refusal Skills • 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 • Say NO in a firm voice • Explain WHY • Offer Alternatives • Stand your Ground • Leave if Nescessary

  5. Write a Skit! Using the interpersonal communication skills and refusal skills we just reviewed, continue to practice using these skills by creating and performing a skit!

  6. Lesson 2: Making Responsible Decisions and Setting Goals

  7. The Decision Making ModelAchieving good health begins with making responsible decisions • Step 1: State the situation: Clearly identify the situation. Ask yourself: What decision do I need to make? Who is involved? Am I feeling pressure to make a decision? How much time do I have to decide? • Step 2: List the possible options: What are all the possible choices you could make? • Step 3: Weigh the possible outcomes: what are the consequences of each option? Help Strategy • Healthful – heath risks? • Ethical – does this choice reflect what you value? • Legal – does this option violate and laws? • Parent Approval – would your parents approve? • Step 4: Consider your values: the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live • Step 5: Make a decision and take action: make a responsible decision • Step 6: Evaluate your decision: reflect – what was the outcome? Would you take the same action again?

  8. Group Activity • Read the scenario and apply the decision making model

  9. Conflict Resolution The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving 24 Hour Rule – Wait 24 hours to address the issue Stepping away from an argument allowing the conflict to subside using good interpersonal communication skills Maintaining an attitude of respect for yourself as well as or the other person Sometime individuals must make a compromise – where both parties give up something but still gain a desired result

  10. self-management skills • Taking charge of your own health • Practicing Healthful behaviors (take the healthful behaviors questionnaire in your notebook) • Manage your Stress (the reaction of the body and mind to everyday challenges and demands) ! • Eustress – good stress • Distress – bad stress

  11. Setting Goals • One of the most important things we can do as you grow into adulthood is: SET GOALS How do you see yourself in the future? What would you rlike to accomplish? What are your hopes and dreams?f

  12. TWO TYPES OF GOALS: • Short Term Goals: a goal you can reach in a short period of time • Getting a good grade on a test • Asking that certain someone out on a date • Mending a friendship that was damaged • Long Term Goals: a goal you plan to reach over an extended period of time • College Choices • What you want to actually do when you get out of school or college • Marriage • Children

  13. What is an Action Plan? • An action plan is a multi=step strategy for identifying and achieving goals! • Journal:What are threeshort term and three long terms goals that you have set for yourself? Jot them down!

  14. Setting Goals: Making an Action Plan • Step 1: Select a goal to work on • Step 2: List what you will do to reach the goal • Step 3: Identify sources of help and support • Step 4: Set a reasonable time frame for reaching your goal. • Step 5: Establish checkpoints to evaluate your progress • Step 6: Reward yourself after reaching your goal.

  15. Goal Map - Journal • Create a Goal map that covers the next ten years. • Break if down into two year segments. • In each segment, list your goals for family, relationships, education, jobs, hobbies, and physical fitness.

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