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Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life 10 Life Skills for a Healthy Life

Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life 10 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.

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Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life 10 Life Skills for a Healthy Life

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  1. Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life10 Life Skills for a Healthy Life

  2. Accessing your health • actions and behaviors affect your health • You can determine what you need to do to be healthy

  3. communicating effectivley • Teaches good communication skills that can help you in the real world. • improve your relationships

  4. practicing wellness • practice healthy behaviors to get you a good long and healthy life.

  5. coping • Helps you deal with • difficult times • emotions

  6. 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

  7. Evaluating media messages • Helps you make better decisions about your health

  8. Using community resources • Will help you find services that can help you and describe how they can help you

  9. Making GREAT decisions • Will help you with decision making.

  10. Using refusual skills • Will help you say “no” to something you don’t want to do

  11. Setting goals • Will provide tips on how to reach your goals

  12. Making great Decisions von Salzen, Daniel Villalobos, Jesus

  13. Importance of Making Good Decisions • How many decisions have you made? • And Consequences? • You are responsible for them.

  14. Making G.R.E.A.T. Decisions • Give Thought to the problem. • Reviewyour choices. • Evaluatethe consequences of each choice. • Assessand choose the best choice. • Thinkit over afterward.

  15. Making Good Decisions • Don’t rush • Ask for advice • Collaborate!!!

  16. 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

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

  18. 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

  19. Section 3:Resisting Pressure from Others By: Valerie Caro

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.      

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. Statistics show direct and indirect pressure… • A variety of factors have been found to be associated with adolescent smokingand 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.

  26. 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.

  27. 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.

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. Chapter: Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals

  32. 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.

  33. 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

  34. 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?

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. references • http://www.familyfirstaid.org/peer-pressure.html • www.preventionlane.org • http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2011/04/social-networking-sites-more-harm-than-good/ • 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

  39. Refrences • http://kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/getting_help/goals_tips.html • http://zenhabits.net/really-simple-goal-setting/ • http://www.umsl.edu/services/css/docs/Goal_Setting_&_Motivation_Workshop_Booklet.pdf • http://www.getreadyforcollege.org/gPg.cfm?pageID=1171 • www.austinschools.org/ • http://quizlet.com/6978931/health-10-life-skills-flash-cards/

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