1. Ch. 1 Health and Wellness
Health – Condition of physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.
Wellness – Having all four sides of Health Square balanced.
Health Assessment- Set of questions used to evaluate each of the four parts of health.

2. 4 Parts of Health Physical Mental Emotional Social
All four sides need to be in balance!

3. Physical Health Get 8 hours of sleep a night
Eat a balanced and nutritious diet
Get plenty of physical activity
Practice good hygiene
- Hygiene: Practice of keeping clean.
Avoid drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

4. Mental Health
Has to do with the mind. How you deal with life’s demands.
Being mentally healthy means you can….
- Recognize and deal with stress in a positive way.
- Accept new ideas.
- Effectively solve problems.

5. Emotional Health The way you recognize and deal with your feelings.
Suggestions to maintain your emotional Health:
-Express your emotions in words rather than acting them out.
- Accept your strengths and weaknesses, and RESPECT yourself.
- Deal with sadness correctly and in a timely manner.

6. Social Health How well you get along and interact with others.
Ways to improve your Social Health…
- Being considerate of others
- Show respect to others
- Be dependable
- But yourself in their “shoes”
- Ask for help when you need it!

7. Influences on Health/Wellness
Heredity – The passing down of traits from a parent to a child.
Trait- Characteristic of a person
Environmental- Everything around you, including things we can NOT see.
Relationships – Family, friends, ect.
- Peers: Someone who is the same age or same grade and who has similar interests.
Other
Culture – the collective beliefs, customs, and behaviors of a group.
Attitude
Behavior
Media
Technology

8. Making Choices about Your Health

9. Life Style Lifestyle: set of behaviors by which you live.
Attitude: The way you act, think, or feel that causes you to make one choice over another.
Preventative Healthcare: Taking the steps needed to prevent illness or accidents.

10. Using Life Skills to improve Health
Life Skills- skills that help you deal with situations that can affect your health.
* Assessing your health
* Making good decisions
* Being a wise consumer
* Communicating effectively
* Setting Goals
* Using refusal skills (ways to say NO)
* Coping

11. Using life skills cont. Practicing Life Skills-
“PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT”
Evaluating your skills
- Do I periodically evaluate my square?
- Am I making good decisions?
- Am I setting and meeting my goals?
- Do I use refusal skills?

12. Staying Healthy and Well
Ticket Out the door:
List four ways that life skills work together to improve your health.
Using refusal skills, communicating effectively, making good decisions, assessing health square, evaluate media message, staying informed .