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Chapter 2: Skills for a Healthy Life

1. I review all of my choices before I make a decision.

2. I think about the outcome for each possible choice.

3. I make decisions that support my beliefs.

4. I think about the decisions I make afterward, so that I can learn from them.

5. I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I make.

6. I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to make.

7. If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my decision caused.

How frequently do you engage in the following

behaviors?

1 = never

2 = occasionally

3 = most of the time

4 = all of the time


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TOTAL YOUR SCORE…

20 – 28: You’re doing an excellent job of giving thought to your decisions.

12 – 19: You give some thought to your decisions, but there are some areas in which you could improve your skills at making decisions.

< 12: You should be making some major changes in the ways in which you make health-related decisions.


Contents

• Section 1 Building Life Skills

• Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions

• Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others

• Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals

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Skills for a

Healthy Life


Skills for a Healthy Life

Section 1

Building Life Skills

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Section 1 Building Life Skills Chapter 2

What Are Life Skills?

• Life Skills are tools for building a healthy life.

• Life skills are learned.

• Learning to use life skills takes practice.


Section 1 Building Life Skills

Ten Life Skills

1. Assessing Your Health

• How healthy are you?

• How are your actions and behaviors

affecting your health?

2. Communicating Effectively

• Listen and speak effectively.

3. Practicing Wellness

• Practice healthy behaviors for good life-long

health.

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Ten Life Skills

4. Coping

• Deal with troubles or problems in an effective

way.

5. Being a Wise Consumer

• Make good decisions when you buy health

products and services.

6. Evaluating Media Messages

• Recognize the influence of media messages

on you and your decisions.

7. Using Community Resources

• Find and use community resources to help all

six components of your health.

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Ten Life Skills

8. Making GREAT Decisions

• Use the making GREAT Decisions model.

9. Using Refusal Skills

• Say ―no‖ to anything that makes you

uncomfortable.

10.Setting Goals

• Setting goals helps you know where you are

going and how you plan to get there.

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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions

Bellringer

1. Imagine a friend is pressuring you to

sneak out of your house to go to a party.

2. Think of all the possible choices you

could make in this situation.

3. List all the pros and cons of each choice

you would debate over in making your

decision.

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Consequences are the results

of your actions and decisions.

• Your actions & decisions are important

because you are responsible for the

consequences.

• Impulsive decisions can have negative

consequences.

• Good decisions almost always lead to

positive outcomes.

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Section 2

Making GREAT Decisions

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Practice Making GREAT Decisions…

Here’s the situation……

• Gina is on her way to school when a boy she

likes pulls up in his car with his friends.

• The boys are planning to skip school and

want Gina to come with them. She notices

some beer in the back seat.

• What could Gina do????

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1. GIVE Thought to the Problem

Gina stops to think before making her decision.

2. REVIEW Your Choices

Gina has at least three choices:

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1. Skip school and go with them

2. Say ―No, thanks.‖

3. Suggest they get together another time




3. EVALUATE the Consequences of Each

Choice

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• If she skips school, she could get in trouble,

and could be at risk.

• If she says ―No,‖ she will not get in trouble, but

she will miss a chance to be with Marty.

• If she suggests another time, she will not get in

trouble, and she could get to be with Marty

later—but does she want to?




4. ASSESS the possible outcomes and

make the best choice. Gina realizes she

does not want the stress of lying and putting

herself at risk. She decides to say, ―No,

thanks.‖

5. THINK It Over Afterward Gina thinks

about her decision later. She is glad she

didn’t have to lie or worry about getting in

trouble.

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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions Chapter 2

• Working with other people can make difficult life decisions easier.

• Seek advice from your parents, friends, and teachers.

• Learn from your mistakes.

Making GREAT Decisions Together



When you make a bad decision, use…

STOP, THINK, GO

• STOP and admit to yourself (and others) that you made a wrong decision.

• THINK of people you can talk to about the problem, and what you can do to fix the mistake.

• GO and do your best to correct the situation.

Making Mistakes…



It’s your turn

to practice

using

GREAT decisions!!!


MAKING GREAT Decisions

1. GIVE thought to the problem

2. REVIEW your choices (2 or more)

3. EVALUATE the consequences of each

choice (positive & negative outcomes)

4. ASSESS and choose the best choice

5. THINK it over afterward • Would you repeat your choice?

• What would you change?


Identify the problem

CHOICE #1 CHOICE #2 CHOICE #3

+ -

outcome

outcome outcome

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+ - outcome

outcome

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MAKING GREAT Decisions


Choose one of the

following situations

and complete

steps 1-3 of the

MAKING GREAT

DECISIONS model:


1. Your friend pressures you to go to a party where

you know there will be drugs/alcohol, and your

parents have expressed very strong feelings you

about not participating in these things...

2. You’re out with friends having a great time, but

you’re getting close to your parent’s curfew

time…

3. It’s Friday afternoon and there’s lots of fun stuff

going on this weekend. You’ve also got a project

and a paper due Monday, and a test to study

for…

4. You’re in a relationship with a boy/girl friend, and

someone you’ve always had a crush on starts

showing you attention and asks you to go out…



Section 3

Resisting Pressure from Others

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Who Influences You?

• Positive influences can encourage you to

improve yourself or to do good.

• Negative influences can pressure you to do

something that is unhealthy or dangerous.

• Peer pressure is a feeling that you should do

something because that is what your friends

want.

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Others


Types of Pressure

• Direct pressure is the result of someone

trying to convince you to do something you

normally wouldn’t do.

• Indirect pressure results from being swayed

to do something because people you look up

to are doing it.


Others


Refusal Skills

• Refusal skills are

strategies to avoid

doing things that

you feel

pressured to do.


Others



Section 4

Setting Healthy Goals

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Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals

Bellringer

• Identify three goals that you hope to

accomplish within the next month.

• Identify three goals that you hope to

accomplish within the next 10 years.

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Practicing Refusal Skills

• It helps to practice refusal skills so you will be ready for real-life pressure situations.

• When you say no, always respect others and

don’t put anyone down.

• If someone keeps pressuring you, then you

may have to leave the situation.

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Kinds of Goals

• A goal is something you

work toward and hope to

achieve.

• Short-term goals can be

achieved in days or

weeks.

• Long-term goals may

take months or years to

achieve.

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Six Suggestions for Setting Goals

1. Safe Goals should not be harmful to you or others.

2. Satisfying You should feel good about yourself

when you reach your goals.

3. Sensible Set realistic goals that you can really

hope to achieve.

4. Similar Set goals that work well together and do

not contradict one another.

5. Specific The steps to achieve your goals should

be clear.

6. Supported Your goals should be supported by

your parents or other responsible adults.

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Make an Action Plan

• An action plan is a set of directions that help you

reach a goal.

• List the rewards you will have when you reach your

goal.

• Know which influences can hurt you and which

influences can help you as you work toward your

goal.

• Track your progress regularly.

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