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

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

3. 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)

4. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

17. 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
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

18. 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)