10 life skills. 1. assessing your health evaluating your actions and behaviors that affect your...
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Evaluating your health can help you determine what you need to do to be healthy.TRANSCRIPT
10 LI
FE
SKILL
S
1. ASSESSING YOUR HEALTH
Evaluating your actions and behaviors that affect your health may help you make better decisions about yourself.
Evaluating your health can help you determine what you
need to do to be healthy.
2. COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY
Good communication skills include listening
and speaking effectively.
Good communication will help improve your
relationships with your family, friends,
teachers and other adults.
GOOD COMUNICATION is needed for
EVERY RELATIONSHIP!!!
3. PRACTICING WELLNESSPracticing healthy behaviors
daily can help you have good
life-long health.
Examples of healthy behaviors are getting enough sleep, choosing nutritious foods and avoiding risky behaviors.
4. COPINGDealing with problems or
trouble in an effective way.
This life skill can help you deal with difficult times and situations like depression,
stress, the loss of a loved one,
etc....
5. BEING A WISE CONSUMER
Anyone who buys
products or services
is a consumer.
Making good decisions when buying health products and
services will help improve your
health now and in the future.
6. EVALUATING MEDIA MESSAGES
Public forms of communication
such as TV, radio, internet,
newspaper are referred to as
media.
Media has a HUGE impact on what we
learn about the
world.
Knowing how to analyze media information can help you make better decisions about your health
7. COMMUNITY RESOURCESA resource is something you can use to help you
achieve a goal.
Health clinics, libraries and government agencies are examples of Community Resources.
Knowing where to find health information
in the community is beneficial.
8. MAKING GREAT DECISIONSLearning the GREAT decision making steps will help you make the right decisions for yourself.
These steps should be used when making
life-changing decisions.
What are some examples of life changing
decisions?
9. USING REFUSAL SKILLS
This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.
What would be some examples of when
you might need to use
10. SETTING GOALSGoals are directions
for your life.
Setting goals can help you stay focused on what you want to achieve. Short term
goals can be achieved
quickly and can lead to
accomplishing long term
goals.
It is important to