1. Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2
Profiles in Responsibility Video

2. Health IQ
Indicate how frequently you engage in each of the following behaviors:
Never=1, occasionally=2, most of the time=3, all of the time=4
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.

3. Chapter 2.1
Building Life Skills

4. Key terms Life skill Coping Consumer Media Resource
A tool for building a healthy life
Coping
Dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way
Consumer
A person who buys products or services
Media
All public forms of communication, such as TV, radio, newspaper, the internet, and advertisements
Resource
Something that you can use to help achieve a goal

5. What are Life Skills?
With your shoulder partner, read this section of the text.
Page 26
Discuss with each other what you read...
Put it in your own words
Write in your own words what you think is the main point of this section.

6. Life Skills 1. Assessing your health 2. Communicating Effectively
3. Practicing Wellness
4. Coping
5. Being a Wise Consumer
6. Evaluating Media Messages
7. Using Community Resources
8. Making GREAT Decisions
9. Using Refusal Skills
10. Setting Goals

7. Profiles In responsibility
Concept Review
Study Guide Booklet
Page 8
10 minutes
Profiles In responsibility
19 minutes

8. Making GREAT DECISIONS
Chapter 2.2
Making GREAT DECISIONS

9. Key Terms Consequence Collaborate
A result of your actions and decisions
Collaborate
To work together with one or more people

10. Importance of Making Decisions
How many decisions have you made today?
More than you realize!
Every we make decisions
Hit the snooze button again?
What to wear?
What to eat for breakfast?
What to pack for lunch?
What books to take to school?
Most are spur of the moment and done without thinking or worrying about consequences.
Impulsive decisions all of the time can lead to negative consequences.

11. Importance of Decision Making
Consequences of impulsive decisions:
To cheat = failing grade/failing class
To have sex = pregnancy, STD
To drink = sex/rape, MVA (vehicular homicide), etc.
To steal = jail, probation, trouble getting job/into school
Decisions are important = you are responsible for outcome!
Decisions not only affect you but can affect others.
To drink and drive = danger for you and everyone else on road
Decision can promote health
Eating healthy = good for you and example to others
Start recycling project = good for all and environment

12. Using a Decision Model Give thought to your problem
Review your choices
Evaluate the possible outcomes of each choice
Assess which choice might be best
Think about your resources to help you make the decision
After making decision, think it over…. Was it the right decision? Or would another choice have been better?

13. Making Decisions Together
Not all decisions are easy to make
May need help from others that are more knowledgeable
To collaborate
Science project in groups
Talk with parents/other trusted adults about friend that mentioned suicide

14. Everyone Makes Mistakes
What happens when you realize you made the wrong/a poor decision?
Happens to all of us!
STOP
Admit the poor decision
Take responsibility
THINK
Who can you talk to about the problem?
Discuss ways to correct the situation GO
Go do your best to correct situation

15. Let’s try the process slowly, step by step, together.
Step 1 : Write down a problem.
Example:
Step 2: List at least 4 possible options.
Step 3: What are the possible positive and negative outcomes of each option you listed?
Example
Step 4: What are your resources?
Step 5: Look back at everything you wrote down. What is your decision?
Step 6: Act on your decision
Step 7: Reflect on that decision after you see how it plays out.

16. Making Healthy Decisions
Name __________________________________
Making Healthy Decisions
Step One: What is the problem?
Step Two: List Possible Options
Step Three: Evaluate Each Option - Positive and Negative 1
1. Positive Negative - 2
2. Positive Negative - 3
3. Positive Negative - 4
4. Positive Negative -
Step Four: List at least four Resources
Step Five: What is your Decision?
Step Six: Act on the Decision and take Responsibility.
Step Seven: Reflect / Re-Examine your decision.

17. Handbook page 9
10 minutes

18. Resisting Pressure From others
Ch 2.3
Resisting Pressure From others

19. Key Terms Write a definition for each term using your own words
Peer Pressure
Direct Pressure
Indirect Pressure
Refusal Skill

20. Who influences you?
Write down a list of people that influence you… either positively or negatively.
Influences
Clothes you wear
Food you eat
Hairstyle
Mode of transportation
Smoke, drink, drugs?
Media
Peer Pressure is feeling you should do something that someone else (friends) wants you to do.

21. Positive vs Negative Influence
Positive Role Models
Improve yourself
Friends
Ex: join track team with a friend
Negative
Pressured
Typically not healthy
Friends
Ex: friend puts candy in your pocket and asks you to steal it

22. Types of Pressure (pg 34) Direct Pressure Indirect Pressure
Someone tries to convince you personally something you normally wouldn’t do
Teasing
Persuasion
Explanations
Put-downs
Threats
Bribery
Indirect Pressure
Pressured from being swayed because other people are doing it Tv
Radio
Advertising
Role Models
Popular People
Famous People

23. Refusal Skills (pg 35) Useful when being directly pressured
Skill to avoid something you don’t want to do
Blame someone else
Give a reason
Ignore the request or the pressure
Leave the situation
Say, “no thanks”
Say no, mean no
Keep saying no
Make a joke out of it
Make an excuse
Suggest something else to do
Change the subject
Team up with someone

24. Practicing Refusal Skills
Refusal skills helpful throughout life in many occasions
Say no with respect
When practicing:
Always respect others
Don’t put anyone down
Disagreeing does not mean that people will stop liking you
They may be angry for the moment, but if true friends, will not end the friendship
Persistent pressure
Sometimes no once is not enough
Even after saying it 10 times!
Walk away, find an adult, etc.

25. Practical Practice (1) With your shoulder partner:
Decide who is the aggressor.
Aggressor must attempt to get their partner to give them their pencil
The partner must refused using at least 5 different refusal skills from this section of the book (pg35)
Reverse roles and go again!

26. Handbook page 10
10 minutes

27. Section 3 Review (pg 37 #1-10) 1. Define Peer Pressure.
2. What term means a strategy to avoid doing something that you don’t want to do?
3. State 5 things that influence our behavior.
4. Compare 3 types of direct pressure.
5. Compare 3 types of indirect pressure.
6. Identify the example of a direct pressure.
A. teasing
B. Advertising
C. Radio
D. Popular People

28. 7. Identify the example of an Indirect Pressure
A. persuasion
B. TV
C. Bribery
D. Threats
8. Apply 5 refusal skills you can use if a friend suggests that you skip school.
9. Describe why people feel pressured to do things they don’t want to do.
10. Use on of the 12 refusal skill to deal with a pressure you currently have in your life.

29. Practical Practice (2) With your shoulder partner
On a separate sheet of paper
Write a conversation between you two
One is pressuring the other to do something
Must include at least 5 different refusal skills
Presenting to the class is optional (extra credit)
You have 10 minutes!

30. Section 2.4
Setting Healthy Goals

31. Key Terms Write a definition for each term using your own words Goal
Action Plan

32. Different types of Goals
Short-Term
Can be achieved quickly
In days or weeks
Examples
Save money to buy a CD
Doing well on an exam
Write 3 of your own short-term goals
Long-Term
Take longer to achieve
Months or years
Examples
College
Career
Write one of your own long-term goals

33. 6 Suggestions for setting Goals
1. Safe
2. Satisfying
3. Sensible
4. Similar
5. Specific
6. Supported

34. Make an Action Plan Let’s do this together Set your Long-Term Goal
Set short-term goals that will help you reach that long-term goal
Add in rewards for reaching each goal
Who/what will positively influence your reaching these goals
Who/what will negatively influence your reaching these goals
How will you track your progress

35. Chapter Review Questions
Handbook page 11
10 minutes
Review Questions
Pg 42
#1-9
10 minutes
Chapter Review Questions
Pg 44
#3-20
20 minutes