1. Developing Other Health Skills
In this lesson, you will Learn About…
Ways to get the health information you need.
Behaviors that enhance the way you look and feel.
Internal and external influences on your health.

2. Developing Other Health Skills
The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are:
Support system.
Environment.
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3. Health Skills: An Overview
Health skills are practices that help you maintain, protect, and improve your health. They are also called life skills.
Accessing Information
Self-Management
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
Stress Management
Analyzing Influences
Interpersonal Communication
Communication Skills
Refusal Skills
Conflict Resolution Skills
Decision Making/Goal Setting
Advocacy
Health skills will benefit you not only during your teen years but also throughout your life. Some of the skills have already been discussed in this chapter—decision making, goal setting, communication skills, refusal skills, and stress management.

4. Accessing Information
Sources for reliable health information include parents, teachers, counselors, school nurses, other trusted adults, and the print materials shown below.
Always use critical-thinking skills to interpret media messages about health information.
Library
Print and Broadcast Media
Internet
Community Resources
This skill involves finding accurate and reliable health information and using health resources. Although you can obtain information from a variety of sources, not all of it is accurate or reliable. Some information is misleading or even completely false.
Have students identify some good sources of information in addition to the ones listed here.

5. Practicing Healthful Behaviors
Practicing healthful behaviors involves taking care of yourself and avoiding risky situations. It includes:
Making health a habit.
Building a support system.
Practicing healthful behaviors means developing lifelong habits that increase your level of health and protect you from illness and injury.
Making health a habit—Making health a priority and establishing good habits are key elements for good health.
Building a support system—Create a support system from parents and other relatives, teachers, counselors, health care providers, and religious leaders.

6. Analyzing Influences
Understanding internal and external influences enables you to choose positive behaviors:
Internal Influences
Your knowledge
Your likes and dislikes
Your values
Your desires
Your curiosity
Your fears
External Influences
Your family
Your friends/peers
Your environment
Your culture
Laws
Media/technology
Your role models
Have students create their own lists of the internal and external influences on their health. How can they determine which are positive and which are not?

7. Reviewing Terms and Facts
support system
A _____________ is a network of people available to help when needed.
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8. Reviewing Terms and Facts
What are the six types of internal influences on your health?
Six types of internal influences are your knowledge, likes and dislikes, values, desires, curiosity, and fears.
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9. Thinking Critically
How does your physical environment influence your health?
Answers will vary, but might include discussion of living spaces, pollution, the weather, and so on.

10. Chapter Review

11. Reviewing Terms and Facts
The first step in _____________ is to state the situation.
decision making
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12. Reviewing Terms and Facts
Using ___________ instead of “you” messages shows respect for other people.
“I” messages
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13. Reviewing Terms and Facts
The hormone that gives the body extra energy is adrenaline.
True
False
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14. Reviewing Terms and Facts
The hormone that gives the body extra energy is adrenaline.
True
False

15. Reviewing Terms and Facts
Reliable information comes from sources you can trust.
True
False
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16. Reviewing Terms and Facts
Reliable information comes from sources you can trust.
True
False

17. Thinking Critically
Identify a health decision that a teen might have to make. Relate the practices and steps of the decision-making process to that situation to make a healthy choice.
Responses should explain how the decision-making process could be used to help teens make wise choices.

18. Thinking Critically
How do the goal-setting steps help you to accomplish your goals?
They help you focus on the behaviors you want to change.
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19. Thinking Critically
When might a teen need to use refusal skills with someone other than a peer?
Possible response: when an older person tries to persuade the teen to do something that goes against his or her values.
Accept all reasonable responses.

20. Thinking Critically
Name three events that act as stressors for you. Why do you find them stressful? How can you manage your response to them?
Accept all reasonable responses.

21. Vocabulary Review
A support system is a network of people available to help when needed.
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22. Vocabulary Review
Your environment is the sum total of your surroundings.
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