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Empower Your Health: Essential Life Skills Unit 1

Explore the key life skills necessary for a healthy life, including assessing health, effective communication, practicing wellness, coping strategies, consumer wisdom, media literacy, community resources, decision-making, refusal skills, and goal setting.

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Empower Your Health: Essential Life Skills Unit 1

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  1. Life Skills for a Healthy Life Health – Unit 1

  2. Life Skill • A tool for building a healthy life.

  3. What Are Life Skills? • Everyone wants to enjoy the benefits of a healthy life. A healthy life doesn’t come without effort. • Life skills are tools for building a healthy life. • Life skills help improve the six components of health: physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, and environmental. • Learning to use life skills boosts your wellness throughout your lifetime.

  4. Ten Life Skills • Assessing Your Health • Communicating Effectively • Practicing Wellness • Coping • Being a Wise Consumer • Evaluating Media Messages • Using Community Resources • Making GREAT Decisions • Using Refusal Skills • Setting Goals

  5. Assessing Your Health • How healthy are you? • How do you know if you are doing the right thing for your health? • Evaluate • Your Health • How your actions and behaviors affect your health • What can you do to improve your health?

  6. Communicating Effectively • Have you ever had trouble dealing with a classmate or your parents? • Struggled for the right word to say how you feel? • Communication skills include: • Knowing how to listen • Speaking effectively • Helps improve your relationships with your family, friends, classmates, teachers and other adults.

  7. Practicing Wellness • Practice healthy behaviors daily. • Examples: • Getting enough sleep • Choosing nutritious foods • Avoiding risky behaviors

  8. Coping • Dealing with troubles or problems in an effective way will help you deal with difficult times, situations, and emotions such as: • Anger • Depression • Loss of a loved one

  9. Being a Wise Consumer • A consumer is a person, product, or service. • Make good decisions when buying health products and services.

  10. Evaluating Media Messages • Public forms of communication such as TV, radio, movies, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements are referred to as the media. • The media has a significant influence on what you learn about the world. • Knowing how to analyze media messages will help you make better decisions about your health.

  11. Using Community Resources • A resource is something that you can use to help achieve a goal. • Examples: • Health clinics • Libraries • Government agencies

  12. Making Great Decisions • Everyone wants to make the right decisions. • If you don’t know what the right decision is consult community resources. They can help provide you with steps to help you make the right decisions.

  13. Using Refusal Skills • This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.

  14. Setting Goals • This life skill will provide you with tips to help you reach your goals.

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