Wellness

1. Wellness 7th Grade Health

2. Wellness and Your Health

3. Do Now • What is the difference between health and wellness?

4. Health – a condition of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. • Each part of your health is equally important • To be healthy you must balance all of these parts

5. The Physical Part of Health • *Physical Health – the part of health that describes the condition of the body. • Ways to maintain your physical health: • Get 8 hours of sleep • Eat nutritious food and a balanced diet • Get plenty of physical exercise • *Practice good hygiene – deodorant, brushing teeth, washing hands etc. • Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco

6. The Emotional Part of Health • *Emotional Health – the way you recognize and deal with your feelings • Ways to maintain your emotional health: • *Express your emotions in words rather than acting them out. Show self-control, and think before you act. • Ex: “Excuse me, I’m not sure if you saw there is a line here.” • Accept your strengths and weaknesses, and respect yourself • Deal with sadness appropriately and in a timely manner

7. The Mental Part of Health • *Mental Health – how you deal with life’s demands • Ways to maintain your mental health: • Recognize and deal with stress in a positive way • Accept new ideas • Effectively solve problems

8. The Social Part of Health • *Social Health – the part of health that describes the way that you interact with people. • Ways to maintain your social health: • Being considerate of other people and their needs • Showing respect to others • Being dependable • Supporting people you care about when they make the right choices • Expressing your true feelings • Imagining how you would feel if you were in the other person’s place • Asking for help when you need it

9. Wellness is Balanced Health • *Wellness – the state of good health achieved by balancing your physical, mental, emotional and social health • *Health Assessment – a set of questions that allows you to evaluate each of the four of your health

11. Making Healthy Decisions

12. Making Decisions

13. Being in Control • You make decisions every day • Decision – a choice you make and act upon • Good decision – a decision in which you carefully considered the outcome of each choice. • Personal Responsibility – to accept how your decision will affect yourself and other people • A good decision is a responsible decision

14. Life Skills • *Life Skills – skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health

15. Values • *Values – beliefs that you consider to be of great importance • Many of your values come from things your parents have taught you. • Other values you develop over time. • Good values include: • Respect for yourself and others • Responsibility • Honesty • Self-control • Trustworthiness

16. Character • Values help you live responsibly and develop good character • *Character – the way that people think, feel, and act. • If your character is based on positive values, you will develop attitudes and habits that make it easier to make good decisions. • But to make a good decision you must figure out what the problem is. • If you don’t identify the problem correctly, you may make the wrong decision. • Identifying the real problem is an important first step in the decision-making process.

17. *ABCDE of Decision Making • A – Analyze • B – Brainstorm • C – Choose • D – Do • E - Evaluate

18. ABCDE of Decision Making • Why do you think it is important to evaluate your decisions? • It’s important to reflect on your decisions so you can learn what to do in the future. • We all make mistakes, but by evaluating our actions we can limit mistakes in the future

19. Tomorrow you have a Science test that you have not yet studied for. You were out of school for two days so you are really unprepared for the test. Afterschool you have practice from 4:00-6:00pm and then your best friends birthday party that you have been planning for weeks starts at 7:00 and ends at 9:00. You usually go to bed at 9:30 ish.

20. Influences on Your Decisions

21. *Family Influence • Influence- a force that affects your choices when you have a decision to make • Family members have the greatest influence on you so far • Family members set standards and have expectations that are based on their values and cultural traditions • For example: Why certain people are your friends, what you do for fun, and how you celebrate holidays are decisions that are influenced by your family.

22. *Peer Influence • A peer is a person who is about your age that you interact with • Peer pressure – the pressure that you feel to do something because your friends want you to do it. • Positive peer pressure – influences to do something that benefits you • Negative peer pressure – pressure to do things that could harm you or others

23. *Other Influences on Your Decisions • Media • TV, Radio, Magazines, Internet, Social Media • Commercials and advertisements are designed to make money that sells the product. The claims are usually exaggerated • *Evaluating media messages. Media can however have a positive effect on your life. You just have to learn to recognize which messages are true.*

24. Evaluate Your Influences • How do you know who to listen to? • Trust the people who care about you • Family members and good friends can usually be trusted most • Be careful about listening to people whom you do not know very well

25. Examining Your Decisions

26. Weighing the Consequences of Decisions • Consequences – the result of an action that you take • There can be positive and negative consequences. • What can be a positive and what can be a negative consequence? • Precaution – an action to avoid negative consequences

27. Practice Makes Perfect • The more you practice the decision making process, the easier it will be to use • You can rehearse making decisions • You can ask for opinions from trusted family or friends

28. Setting Your Goals

29. From Decisions to Goals • Goals – something that you want and are willing to work for. • Goals make you feel better and build self esteem • Self-esteem – refers to how you feel about yourself as a person and how much you value yourself • Goals help you avoid making choices that will hurt you

30. Types of Goals • Short-term goals – tasks that you can accomplish in a short period of time • Long-term goals – tasks that usually take weeks, months, or even years to accomplish • Short-term goals should be made to lead to long-term goals.

31. Your Interests and Values • Goals must be based on your interests and values • Interests – something that you enjoy and want to learn more about • Interests reflect tastes , and your tastes often change because something you like better comes along • Your own interests and values that make you want to reach a goal.

32. *SMART Goals • S – Specific • M – Measureable • A – Attainable • R – Relevant • T - Timely

33. Reaching Your Goals

34. Having Success • Success – the achievement of your goal • Set a goal • Once you set a goal, you must have a strategy to accomplish it. • Action plan – a map that outlines the steps for reaching your goal

35. Making an Action Plan • Write down you goal • Make a list of the steps you will follow to reach your goal • Do some research to find information that you may need to reach your goal • Estimate how long it will take you to reach your goal, and write down this information • Check your progress periodically • Reward yourself when you have reached a goal

36. Setbacks • Setback – something that goes wrong • Setbacks are learning opportunities. Setbacks and failures are very different. • You only fail if you quit • The key to reaching a goal is to be persistent • Persistence – the commitment to keep working toward your goal even when things happen that make you want to quit • *Coping – dealing with problems in an effective way

37. Assessing Your Progress • When you work towards a long-term goal, seeing your progress is sometimes hard. • You have to have a way to assess your progress • Assess – a way to measure your short-term achievement towards a long-term goal • Ways to assess your short-term progress include keeping a journal or making a chart

38. Communication Skills

39. *Communication Skills • Communication Skills – methods for expressing your thoughts and listening to what others say • *Communication is a way of expressing your feelings in a healthy way and using good listening skills* • Ways to communicate clearly: • Stay focused. Talk about the important issue, not about anything that comes into your head. • Choose your words carefully. Make sure you are clear about whether you are talking about the way that you view something or actual facts. • Watch your body language. For example, keep your arms uncrossed.

40. Listen! • Active Listening – not only hearing what someone says but also showing that you understand what the person is communicating. • Examples of Active Listening: • Face the person who is talking. Facing a person shows that you are interested in what the person is saying • Make eye contact with the other person • To avoid misunderstandings, restate or summarize what the person says to you.

41. Refusal Skills

42. *Say “No!” • *Refusal Skills – different ways of saying no to things that you don’t want to do • Say no. Be polite, but be clear. Be firm if you need to, and repeat yourself. • Stay focused on the issue. Be true to yourself and to your beliefs. • Stand your ground. Don’t let yourself be talked into something that you know is wrong. • Walk away. You do not have to be in a situation that you do not want to be in. • Avoid risky situations. This can often be the easiest and safest thing to do.

43. Have a Support System • Support system – made up of family members and friends who will stand by you and will encourage you when times get hard • With a support system, you won’t feel alone when you have to say no to someone.

44. Bullying

45. Bullying • Bullying – an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. • The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. • Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

46. There are many roles that kids can play. Kids can bully others, they can be bullied, or they may witness bullying. When kids are involved in bullying, they often play more than one role. It is important to understand the multiple roles kids play in order to effectively prevent and respond to bullying.

47. Two Types of Bullying • Direct Physical – hitting, kicking, pushing, stealing, hiding or ruining someone’s things. Making someone do something they don’t want to do. Verbal – name calling, teasing, insulting, threats. • Indirect Relationship Bullying – gossiping, spreading rumors and lies about someone. Making someone feel left out or rejected. Cyber Bullying - on line, behind a keyboard.

48. Physical Bullying • Pushing • Kicking • Hitting • Pinching • And other forms of violence or threats.

49. Cyberbullying • Cyber bullying:is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. • Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. • Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.

50. Verbal Bullying • Verbal.Name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumors, persistent teasing. • What is a “Put Down” ? • A put down is a verbal or non-verbal response or action which creates negative feelings that can truly hurt someone. • 70 % of problems between people are put down related • When a problem is ignored, it usually grows and grows until it becomes unmanageable. • If you want a great classroom, you need to create a put down free environment. • Conflict resolution begins with eliminating put downs as much as possible. • No one ever made their own light shine any brighter by dimming someone else's!