Taking Charge of your Health Lesson 1 Building

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 • 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

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

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!

Lesson 2: Making Responsible Decisions and Setting Goals

The Decision Making Model Achieving 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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. YEAR 20152017 20182020 20212022 20232024 20252026 AGE 3 GOALS