Skills for a Healthy Life

10 Life Skills• Assessing Your Health• Communicating Effectively• Practicing Wellness• Coping• Being a Wise Consumer• Evaluating Media Messages• Using Community Resources• Making Great Decisions• Using Refusal Skills• Setting Goals

Great Decisions

• Give thought to the problem

• Review you choices

• Evaluate the consequences of each choice

• Assess and choose the best choice

• Think it over afterwards

Collaborate

• Talk to your friends• Talk to your parents• Talk to family members• Talk to your teachers or school counselors

Poor Decisions

• Stop Admit the mistake

• Think Talk to someone

• Go Correct the situation

Resisting Pressure

• Peer pressure– Positive – friends and role models– Negative - friendsDirect Pressure – pressure that results from

someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do

Indirect Pressure being swayed to do something because people you look up to are doing it(TV, raidio, magazines, movie stars, athletes)

Refusal Skills

• Strategy used to avoid doing something you don’t want to do– Give a reason– Blame someone else– Leave the situation– Say NO– Make a joke of the situation– Change the subject– Get support from friends

Refusal Skills

• Everyone else is doing it• Don’t you want to know what it’s like?• Please, do it for me.

• How do you respond?

Setting Goals

• Make sure they are safe goals• Make sure they satisfy you• Make sure they are sensible• Make sure they are similar• Make sure they are specific• Make sure they are supported

Planning

• An action plan should have rewards along the way

• Know your influences along the way• Keep track of your progress