Transcript 7th Grade - Chapter 2, Lesson 1 PowerPoint

Taking Responsibility for Your
Health
In this chapter, you will Learn About…
 Skills that will help you develop and
maintain balanced health.
 Making responsible decisions.
 Setting and achieving personal goals.
 Developing good character.
Building Health Skills
In this lesson, you will Learn About…
 Why health skills are important.
 Skills to improve your health knowledge and
behavior.
 Skills to maintain your personal health and
safety.
 Skills to help you interact with others.
Building Health Skills
The Vocabulary terms in this lesson are:
 Stress.
 Stress management.
 Interpersonal communication.
 Refusal skills.
 Conflict.
 Conflict resolution.
Skills for Balanced Health
Health skills are skills related to your
physical, mental/emotional, and social
health.
These skills and practices:
 Help you achieve, maintain, and protect good
health.
 Have a positive effect throughout your life.
The Health Skills
Accessing Information
You are exposed to information
everywhere you look. Not all sources of
information are equally valid.
It is important to verify the information
and the reliability of its sources.
Self-Management
Developing self-management skills means
that you:
 Act in specific ways to stay physically
healthy.
 Take responsibility for your mental and
emotional wellness.
There are two key components of selfmanagement skills:
 Practicing healthful behaviors
 Managing stress
Practicing Healthful Behaviors
Practicing healthful behaviors means
using skills that will:
 Protect you from immediate illness or injury.
 Increase your level of physical wellness.
Examples of healthful behaviors include:
 Drinking plenty of water.
 Participating in regular physical activity.
 Getting regular medical and dental checkups.
Stress Management
Your body reacts to everything that
happens to you. Some of the events in
your life may cause stress.
Stress can be positive or negative:
 Positive stress can help you work toward
and reach goals.
 Negative stress can cause you discomfort
and keep you from doing things you need
or want to do.
Stress Management (cont’d.)
Stress management
involves identifying
sources of stress
and learning how to
handle them in
ways that promote
good mental and
emotional health.
Analyzing Influences
Analyzing influences means recognizing
the ways in which internal and external
factors affect your health.
 Internal influences include knowledge and
feelings, interests, likes and dislikes.
 External influences include family, friends,
teachers, counselors, role models, and the
media.
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal communication is the
sharing of thoughts and feelings between
two or more people.
Developing your speaking and listening
skills will help you express your ideas and
feelings in healthful ways.
Interpersonal Communication
(cont’d.)
Interpersonal communication involves the
following elements:
 Communication skills
 Refusal skills — ways to say no effectively.
 Conflict resolution — finding a solution to a
disagreement or preventing it from becoming a
larger conflict.
Reviewing Terms and Facts
conflict is a disagreement between
1. A _______
people with opposing viewpoints.
Reviewing Terms and Facts
2. Name the basic health skills
 Accessing information
 Self-management (practicing healthful
behaviors, stress management)
 Analyzing influences
 Interpersonal communication
(communication skills, refusal skills, conflict
resolution)
 Decision making/goal setting
 Advocacy
Reviewing Terms and Facts
3.What is stress? Explain the difference
between positive stress and negative
stress?
Stress is your body’s response to changes
around you. Positive stress can help you work
toward and reach goals. Negative stress can
cause you discomfort and keep you from doing
things you need or want to do.
Thinking Critically
4.How can you tell the difference
between a helpful influence and one
that might lead you to try a risk
behavior?
Vocabulary Review
Stress is your body’s response to changes
around you.
Vocabulary Review
Stress management is identifying sources
of stress and learning how to handle
them in ways that promote good mental
and emotional health.
Vocabulary Review
Interpersonal communication is the
sharing of thoughts and feelings between
two or more people.
Vocabulary Review
Refusal skills are ways to say no
effectively.
Vocabulary Review
A conflict is a disagreement between
people with opposing viewpoints.
Vocabulary Review
Conflict resolution means finding a
solution to a disagreement or preventing
it from becoming a larger conflict.
Fold a sheet of paper in half
along the long axis, then
fold in half again. This
makes four rows.
Open and fold the short side
on the left to make a 3”
column.
Label the chart with the health skills shown.
Rate your decision making ability by taking the
Health Inventory for Chapter 2 at
http://www.glencoe.com/qe/qe65.php?qi=1765