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Chapter 2

Lesson 1

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Lesson 1

Building Health Skills

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Learning Health Skills

• Health Skills– Specific tools and strategies to

maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health

– aka Life Skills– help manage your health

• Communication • Refusal• Conflict Resolution• Accessing Information• Analyzing Influences• Practicing Healthful

Behaviors• Stress Management• Advocacy• Decision Making• Goal Setting

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Communication Skills• Good communication is a vital health skill

• Carefully choose your words and expressions to clearly say what you really mean

• Listening closely to others

• Three health skills that deal with how you give and receive information– Interpersonal communication– Refusal skills– Conflict resolution

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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– Be an active listener

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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

• Refusal Strategies that can HELP you say NO to potentially harmful activities:– Say NO in a FIRM voice– Explain why– Offer alternatives– Stand your ground– Leave if necessary

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Conflict-Resolution Skills

• The process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving – 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 for the other person– Compromise

• Both parties give up something but still gain a desired result

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Influences on Your Health

• Accessing Information– Use reliable sources

• Health care providers and professionals

• Valid Internet sites

• Parents, guardians, other trusted adults

• Recently published material

• Analyzing Influences– Why do you do the things

you do?– Personal values– Personal beliefs– Perceptions– Curiosity/Fear– Your family and Culture– Media and Technology– Friends and Peers– School and Community

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Self-Management Skills• Taking charge of your own health

• Protect your health and promote your own well-being

• Self-Management Skills:– Practicing Healthful Behaviors (Figure 2.4)– Managing Stress

• Stress– The reaction of the body and mind to everday challenges

and demands

• Stress Management Skills– Skills that help you reduce and manage stress in your life

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Advocacy

• Taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief

• Lets you share your health knowledge

• Encourages others

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Homework

• Health Behaviors Checklist

• Copy Figure 2.4– Which health habits do you practice every

day?

• List all the healthful strategies you used in the past week to relieve stress. Which ones were most helpful?