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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 = never2 = occasionally3 = most of the time4 = 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

Section 1Building Life Skills

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What Are Life Skills?

• Tools for building a healthy life

• Mostly learned through your environment, to a lesser extent inherited

• Using (productive) life skills takes PRACTICE


Section 1 Building Life Skills

Ten Life Skills (keys to health & happiness)

1. Assessing Your Health (reality check)• How healthy are you? • How are your actions and behaviors

affecting your health?2. Communicating Effectively and Productively

• Listen and speak effectively. 3. Practicing Wellness (don’t just talk the talk…walk the walk)

• Practice healthy behaviors for good life-long health.

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Ten Life Skills4. Coping with stress/reality of your life

• Deal with troubles or problems in an effective way.

5. Being a Wise Consumer / Evaluating Media Messages • Make good decisions when you buy health

products and services.• Recognize the influence of media messages on

you and your decisions.6. Using Community Resources to help you

• 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.

8. Using Refusal Skills (takes PRACTICE!)• Say “no” to anything that makes you

uncomfortable.9. Setting Goals (short & long term)

• Help you visualize where you want to be.• Helps you get through the hard times

(plateaus, etc)

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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions

Bellringer1. 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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Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions

Consequences are the results of your actions and decisions.

• Impulsive decisions can have negative consequences.

• Your actions & decisions are important because you are responsible for the consequences.

• Good decisions almost always lead to positive outcomes.

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• 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, GOSTOP, 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 turnto practice

using GREAT decisions!!!


Identify the problem

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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. 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 3Resisting 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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Types of Pressure

Direct pressure (face-to-face)the result of someone trying to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do.

Indirect pressure (media, fads, etc) results from being swayed to do something

because people you look up to are doing it.



Refusal Skills

• Refusal skills are strategies to avoid doing things that you feel pressured to do.




Section 4Setting 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.

• If someone keeps pressuring you, then you may have to leave the situation or end the friendship.

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Kinds of Goals

• 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 truly feel good about

yourself when you reach your goals.3. Sensible (realistic) 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 (or a recipe) to help you reach a goal.

• Track your progress regularly.

• Know which influences can help/hurt you along the way (helps you increase the likelihood of achieving your goal).

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