What do you think?
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List 5 challenges in your life.
Identify what type of life skill you think would
help the most when facing each of the
challenges.
Skills for a Healthy Life
Building Life Skills
Health IQ
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•Count up total
•20-28 Excellent Job
•12-19 Ok
•11 or less; major changes needed
How frequently (1-4) do you engage in each of the following
behaviors:
I review all of my choices before I make a decision.
I think about the outcome for each possible choice.
I make decisions that support my beliefs.
I think about the decisions I make afterward so I can learn
from them.
I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I
make.
I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to make
If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my
decision caused.
What are Life Skills?
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A tool for building a healthy life
10 Life Skills
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Assessing Your Health
Communicating Effectively
Practicing Wellness
Coping
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Dealing with problems and
troubles in an effective way
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Being a Wise Consumer
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Evaluating Media Messages
A person who buys
products and services
Using Community
Resources
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All public forms of
communication, such as TV,
radio, newspaper, the
Internet, and
advertisements
Something that you can use
to help achieve a goal
Making GREAT decisions
Using Refusal Skills
Setting Goals
What do you think?
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Write a short paragraph describing all the
possible decisions you could make in the
following situation:
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A friend is pressuring you to sneak out of the
house to go to a party.
What stages of decision making would you
go through to make this decision?
Skills for a Healthy Life
Making Decisions
Importance of Making Decisions
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Consequences
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A result of your actions and decisions.
Collaborate
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Work together with one or more people.
DECIDE
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Define the problem
Explore the alternatives
Consider the consequences
Identify your values
Decide and act
Evaluate the Results
Everyone Makes Mistakes
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Stop, Think, Go
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Stop-admit to making a poor decision
Think-Whom should you talk to about the
problem.
Go-Do your best to correct the problem.
Decisions, Decisions
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When you face an important decision, do go
with your “gut” reaction or take a more
thoughtful approach?
What factor do you think will have the biggest
influence on Kyle’s decision?
How would you describe the way you
approach important decisions?
Decisions, Decisions
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Do you agree that most teens think they are
invincible?
Which of the teens do you think faced a more
difficult decision?
What do you think will be the result of luis’s decision
to leave the gang?
If you were Ambra’s classmate, would you consider
her a role model?
How would you classify most of the decisions that
you have to make?
What has the biggest influence on important
decisions you face?
Decisions, Decisions
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Which step in the DECIDE process do you
think is the most important?
In what area of your life do you have the most
difficulty making decisions?
Which adult in your life can you turn to for
help with a tough decision?
What do you think?
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List groups, things, or people that can
influence our behavior positively
Do the same for a list that can influence our
behavior negatively
Make sure you describe how each could
directly impact their behavior.
Skills for a Healthy Life
Resisting Pressure from Others
Who Influences You?
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Peer Pressure
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A feeling that you should do something because
that is what your friends want
Positive Influences
Negative Influences
Types of Pressure
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Direct Pressure
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Results from someone who tries to convince you
to do something you normally wouldn’t do
Teasing, Persuasion, Explanations, Put-downs,
Threats, Bribery
Indirect Pressure
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Results from being swayed to do something
because people you look up to are doing it
TV, Radio, Advertising, Role moles, Popular
people, Famous people
Refusal Skills
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A strategy to avoid
doing something you
don’t want to do.
Blame someone else
Give a reason
Ignore the request or
the pressure
Leave the situation
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Say, “no, thanks.”
Say no, and mean it
Keep saying no
Make a joke out of it
Make an Excuse
Suggest something
else to do
Change the subject
Team up with someone
Practicing Refusal Skills
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Saying No with Respect
Persistent Pressure
Role-Playing Refusal Skills
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Drinking alcohol when under the legal drinking age is one
of the most common pressures many teens face.
Underage drinking has been related to car accidents,
suicide, and other accidents that lead to death
Imagine that you have a couple of friends over to play video
games. Your parents went out to dinner so you have the
house to yourselves. One friend finds beer in the
refrigerator. She suggests that you and your friends drink
it. Your know your parents will notice if the beer is gone.
Use one of the refusal skills from the previous slide to roleplay how you would say no. Repeat with 3 or different
refusal skills.
Write a 1 paragraph evaluation the refusal skills you used.
Make sure you discuss which skills you are morel likely to
use and why. (Due???)
What do you think?
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Write down 3 goals you hope to accomplish
within the next month
Write down 3 goals you hope to accomplish
within the next 10 years.
Skills for a Healthy Life
Setting Healthy Goals
Kinds of Goals
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Something that you work toward and hope to
achieve
Short-term
Long-term
6 Suggestions for Setting Goals
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Safe
Satisfying
Sensible
Similar
Specific
Supported
Make an Action Plan
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Set of directions that will help you reach your
goal.
Rewards
Influences
Tracking Your Progress
Making an action plan
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(Due Mon 2/17)