Unit 1 Health &Wellness: A Quality of life & Making Responsible Decisions

HEALTH Define Health - The combination of physical, mental/emotional, and social well-being. Your Health Triangle

Physical health: It is all about how well your body functions. Having enough energy to perform daily activities, stress, and avoid injury. - Get 8-10 hours of sleep - 30 to 60 minutes of exercise - Eat nutritious meals & drink water - Avoid T-A-D (tobacco, alcohol & drugs)

Social health: Interactions with people and getting along with others to build satisfying relationships. - seeking & lending support when needed - communicating clearly & listening to others - showing respect and care for yourself and others

- Accept responsibility - Enjoy challenges - Have a sense of control Mental / Emotional health: is about your feelings and thoughts and how you cope with the problems that occur in your life. - Accept responsibility - Enjoy challenges - Have a sense of control - Express your emotions in appropriate ways (control anger) - Have a positive outlook - Thoughtful/responsible decisions

6. Spiritual health: a deep-seated sense of meaning and purpose in life. - relationship with the environment - harmony of living (gift of giving) - religion

Kinds of Emotions Love Happiness – adopt a healthy Optimism Humor lifestyle and focus on the positive things in your life Optimism Humor Fear – manage fear through self-talk Anger Guilt Jealousy Loneliness & shyness

Health-Illness Continuum Define Wellness: An overall state of well-being or total health. Health-Illness Continuum Your health at any moment can be seen as a point along a continuum or sliding scale. Negative Positive and/or Chronic diseases

½ of all American adults live with a chronic disease! Define Chronic disease: An ongoing condition or illness such as heart disease, cancer, and obesity. List of risk factors: Smoking - Lack of physical activity Poor nutrition - Being overweight Lack of health screening

Influences on Your Health Heredity refers to all the traits that were biologically passed on to you from your parents. Environment is the sum of your surroundings which include the following: Physical environment which is your neighborhood, air/water quality, parks and medical care Social environment is made up of all the people around you (especially your peers) Culture environment refers to the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group Attitude & behavior the way you view and control your own health. 4. Media & technology are the various methods for communicating information such as: - radio, TV, print media, cell phones, and the internet.

Risk behaviors & Lifestyle factors Risk behaviors are actions that can potentially threaten your health or the health of others: Heart & Artery disease Cancer STD’s, HIV/AIDS Unintended pregnancies Accidents & violence These are caused by a poor lifestyle factor which are personal habits or behaviors related to the way a person lives.

Values – are the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live. - Your decisions are usually based off of your personal values

Developing Your Self-Esteem Be Resilient – have the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis even depression!!! Self-esteem – how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself.

Defense Mechanism Mental process that protects individuals from strong or stressful emotions & situations. (Page 81 – Health book) Denial – unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others Provide an example: Compensation – making up for weaknesses & mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts

Causes of Stress Stressor: is anything that causes stress. Eustress: Positive Stress (excited about something) Common stressors for teens: - Life situations: family, school, peer pressure, change Environmental: media, natural disasters, threats, unsafe Biological: changes in body, illness, injury, disability Cognitive: poor self-esteem, appearance, not fitting in Personal behavior: relationship issues, smoking, use of alcohol/drugs, busy schedule

Types of mental/emotional disorders Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia Anxiety disorder: condition of fear or anxiety example- panic disorder and phobias Impulse control disorders: example- cannot resist the urge to hurt themselves or others 4. Mood disorder: illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living. example- depression, bipolar (manic-depression) Personality disorders: emotional condition example- paranoia (consistent mistrust of others for no reason) Conduct disorder: pattern of behaviors are broken Schizophrenia: loses contact with reality

Treatment Methods Psychotherapy: dialogue between a patient and professional to resolve the problem 2. Behavioral therapy: treatment process that focuses on changing unwanted behaviors through rewards 3. Cognitive therapy: treatment to correct distorted thinking patterns (positive thinking) 4. Family therapy: helping family functions in a positive and constructive way 5. Group therapy: people with similar problems meet 6. Drug therapy: used to treat or reduce the symptoms (example: prozac/zolof)