1. HEALTH CHOICES AND BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 1
HEALTH CHOICES AND BEHAVIOR

2. TERMS
Life management skills: skill people use to meet their own needs everyday.
Health: physical, mental and social well-being
Wellness: overall state of well being
Chronological age – actual years since birth
Physiological age – estimate from health and life expectancy

3. Prevention: practicing health habits to keep a person a way form disease
Self-esteem: confidence and worth you feel about yourself
Decision: ace of making a choice or coming to a solution
Precaution: planned preventive action taken before an event to increase chance of a safe outcome.

4. Goal: something you aim for that takes planning and work.
Consequence: the result of an action
Lifestyle choices: choices made daily on how to treat the body and mind ex: what you eat
Lifestyle diseases: disease that are made by neglect to the body
Number 1 leading cause of death among teens is accidents.
Top 3 leading causes of deaths among adults:
1-heart disease 2-cancer 3-stroke

5. The more you know the more control you can gain
The more you know the more control you can gain. You have control over your health.
Health meaning total wellness…..spiritual, mental, physical and social
Health vs Wellness

6. SPIRITUAL HEALTH Feels life has meaning Lives by cherished values
Manages stress with skill and enjoyment
Maintains a strong sense of self
Accept new ideas and try new behaviors
Handles setbacks without loss of self-esteem
Is aware of emotions and expresses them appropriately
Recognizes emotional problems in self and others, willing to get help

7. PHYSICAL HEALTH Sleeps enough Enjoys food Maintains health weight
Maintains Physical fitness
Does not abuse drugs
Careful with over the counter drugs
Accidents are possible and takes preventive action
Becomes educated in health information

8. SOCIAL HEALTH Develops supportive friendships Resolves conflicts
Socializes well with others
Develops and maintains psychological intimacy with others
Can form successful long term relationship
Understands risk of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy
Continues growing, learning and facing new challenges.

9. More terms Motivation – force that moves people to act
Drives – inborn motivations (hunger, thirst, fear…instincts)
Motivation shaped by four factors
Value of reward (what is it)
Timing (how soon is reward realized)
Costs (risks in trying)
Probability (how likely)

10. Setting Goals Identify something you want
State 3 or more specific behaviors that will help…write them down
Identify steps to be ready
Commit to a specific time to get started
Measure progress (chart, etc.)
Plan rewards for yourself

11. Commitment – long term decision
Will – person’s intent
Self- efficacy – person’s belief in his of her ability to succeed at the task at hand
Video

12. Motivation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy9U6HMcFG8 (Russell Wilson)
(Derrick Coleman)

13. CHAPTER 2 Emotional Health

14. CHAPTER 2 TERMS Values: rules of behavior or your beliefs
Thoughts: mental process of which a person is always conscious. Thoughts shape your actions.
Read page 26, 29
People who know themselves know their values.
Emotions: feeling that occurs in response to an event as experienced by an individual….love, anger, fear

15. Tolerance: accommodation and acceptance of differences between oneself and others; being tolerant of peoples age, body shape, gender, disabilities, race, religion, views and other differences.
Resolving conflicts page 37
Communication: aggressive, passive and assertive page 38

16. What can you do with feelings?
Recognize it
Own it
Verbalize it
Express it physically
Read page 32

17. More Terms Chapter 2 Suppress: to hold back or restrain
Confrontation: showdown, one person expresses feelings to another, maybe destructive (aggressive) or constructive
Resentment: anger that has built up due to failure to express it

18. More terms
Alienation – withdrawing from others because of differences that cannot be resolved
Non-Conformist – person who does not share society’s values and therefore behaves in unconventional ways
Ostracism – rejection and exclusion from society

19. More Terms
Support system – network of individuals or groups with which one identifies and exchanges emotional support
Mentor – wise person who gives advice
Who is/are your mentor(s) and support system?

20. DISCUSSION
Due to Social Media and texting your generation will have a difficult time communicating verbally and expressing feelings to on another.

21. 5 STEPS TO MAKING A DECISION
State the situation
List the choices
Consider the consequences
Make a decision and act
Evaluate the outcome

22. Decision #1
You have two friends that are mad at each other over something that you think is trivial. Both have invited you to hang out with them on Saturday.
What do you do?