Chapter 2

Skills for a
Healthy Life
Contents
• Section 1 Building Life Skills
• Section 2 Making GREAT Decisions
• Section 3 Resisting Pressure from Others
• Section 4 Setting Healthy Goals

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 Chapter 2: Self Assessment - DO NOW!
How frequently do you engage in the following
behaviors?
1 = never
2 = occasionally
3 = most of the time
4 = all of the time
1. I review all of my choices before I make a decision.
2. I think about the outcome for each possible choice.
3. I make decisions that support my beliefs.
4. I think about the decisions I make afterward, so that I can
learn from them.
5. I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I
make.
6. I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to
make.
7. If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my
decision caused.
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TOTAL YOUR SCORE…

20 – 28: You’re doing an excellent job of

giving thought to your decisions.

12 – 19: You give some thought to your

decisions, but there are some
areas in which you could improve
your skills at making decisions.

< 12: You should be making some

major changes in the ways in
which you make health-related
decisions.
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 Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2

Section 1
Building Life Skills

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 Section 1 Building Life Skills
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What Are Life Skills?

• Life Skills are
tools for building
a healthy life.

• Life skills are

learned.

• Learning to use
life skills takes
practice.

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Ten Life Skills

1. Assessing Your Health
• How healthy are you?
• How are your actions and behaviors
affecting your health?
2. Communicating Effectively
• A process in which 2 or more people
exchange information.
3. Practicing Wellness
• Practice healthy behaviors for good life-long
health.

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Ten Life Skills

4. Coping
• Deal with troubles or problems in an effective
way.
5. Being a Wise Consumer – someone who buys things.
• Make good decisions when you buy health
products and services.
6. Evaluating Media Messages (TV,newspaper, radio,
internet)
• Recognize the influence of media messages
on you and your decisions.
7. Using Community Resources
• Find and use community resources to help all
six components of your health.
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Ten Life Skills

8. Making GREAT Decisions
• Use the making GREAT Decisions model.
9. Using Refusal Skills
• Say “no” to anything that makes you
uncomfortable.
10. Setting Goals
• Setting goals helps you know where you are
going and how you plan to get there.

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 Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2

Section 2
Making GREAT Decisions

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Practice Making GREAT Decisions…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVNqKpGr1tE
Here’s the situation……
• Gina is on her way to school when a boy she
likes pulls up in his car with his friends.

• The boys are planning to skip school and

want Gina to come with them. She notices
some beer in the back seat.

• What should Gina do????

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Practice Making GREAT Decisions…

1. GIVE Thought to the Problem
Gina stops to think before making her decision. She
shouldn’t just make a quick decision without
thinking.
2. REVIEW Your Choices
Gina has at least three choices:
1. Skip school and go with them
2. Say “No, thanks.”
3. Suggest they get together another time

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Practice Making GREAT Decisions…

3. EVALUATE the Consequences of Each
Choice
• If she skips school, she could get in trouble, and
could be at risk for serious consequences.
• If she says “No,” she will not get in trouble, but
she will miss a chance to be with the boy she
likes.
• If she suggests another time, she will not get in
trouble, and she could get to be with this boy
later—but does she really want to?

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Practice Making GREAT Decisions…

4. ASSESS the possible outcomes and
make the best choice. Gina realizes she
does not want the stress of lying and putting
herself at risk. She decides to say, “No,
thanks.”

5. THINK It Over Afterward Gina thinks

about her decision later. She is glad she
didn’t have to lie or worry about getting in
trouble.
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The results of your actions and

decisions are called:
• Consequences
• Your actions & decisions are important
because you are responsible for the
consequences.
• Impulsive decisions can have negative
consequences. – What is impulsive?
• Good decisions almost always lead to
positive outcomes.

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Making GREAT Decisions Together

• Working with other people can

make difficult life decisions
easier.
• Seek advice from your parents,
friends, and teachers.
• Learn from your mistakes.
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Making Mistakes…
When you make a bad decision, use…

STOP, THINK, GO

• STOP and admit to yourself (and others) that

you made a wrong decision.
• THINK of people you can talk to about the
problem, and what you can do to fix the mistake.
• GO and do your best to correct the situation.
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It’s your turn

to practice
using
GREAT decisions!!!
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MAKING GREAT Decisions

1. GIVE thought to the problem

2. REVIEW your choices (2 or more)
3. EVALUATE the consequences of each
choice (positive & negative outcomes)
4. ASSESS and choose the best choice
5. THINK it over afterward
• Would you repeat your choice?
• What would you change?
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 MAKING GREAT Decisions
Identify the problem

CHOICE #1 CHOICE #2 CHOICE #3

+ - + - + -
outcome outcome outcome outcome outcome outcome
outcome outcome outcome outcome
outcome outcome
outcome outcome
outcome outcome
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Get into groups of four in the
following order:

• Rows 1 and 2 face each other.

Repeat for Rows 3 and 4, and
Rows 5 and 6.
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 Analyze your
assigned situation
and complete
steps 1-3 of the
MAKING GREAT
DECISIONS model:
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1. Your friend pressures you to go to a party where you know there
will be drugs/alcohol, and your parents have expressed very
strong feelings you about not participating in this type of event
2. You notice a friend is posting depressing statements on social
media and you decide to send him/her a text (Are you Ok?-
His/her response is “I don’t want to live anymore”…
3. It’s 7th period and a friend approaches you and tells you that
someone wants to fight you afterschool because(>>>>). You are
currently an athlete and have a clean discipline record. In
addition, you are strong enough to handle yourself in a situation
like this …
4. You’re in a relationship with a boy/girl friend, and someone
you’ve always had a crush on starts showing you attention and
asks you to go out…
5. You’re current group of friends seem to all have started smoking
cigarettes, and it seems as if they are always pressuring you to
give it a try. You are sick of the pressure, but don’t want to lose
your friends…..
6. One of your friends posts a vicious lie about one of your other
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Homework/Classwork:
1. Imagine: (pick one)
• A friend is pressuring you to sneak out of your house
to go to a party.
• You are being told you have to do mean things to
another person, just to fit in with a group of friends
(or)
• One of your friends is pressuring you to steal
something that you want from the mall.
2. Think of all the possible choices you could make in this
situation.

3. List all (5 total) pros and cons of each choice you would
debate over in making your decision.
4. Tell me what decision you made and why?

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 Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2

Section 3
Resisting Pressure from Others

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Who Influences You?

• Peer pressure is a feeling that you

should do something because that is
what your friends want.

• Positive influences can encourage you to

improve yourself or to do good.
• Negative influences can pressure you to do
something that is unhealthy or dangerous.
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Types of Pressure

• Direct pressure is the result of someone

trying to convince you to do something you
normally wouldn’t do.
• Indirect pressure results from being swayed
to do something because people you look up
to are doing it.

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Refusal Skills
• Refusal skills are
strategies to avoid
doing things that
you feel
pressured to do.

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Practicing Refusal Skills

• It helps to practice refusal skills so you will be

ready for real-life pressure situations.

• When you say no, always respect others and

don’t put anyone down.

• If someone keeps pressuring you, then you

may have to leave the situation.

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 Skills for a Healthy Life
Chapter 2

Section 4
Setting Healthy Goals

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Bellringer

• Write down three goals that you hope to

accomplish within the next month.

• Write down three goals that you hope to

accomplish within the next 10 years.

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Kinds of Goals
• A goal is something you
work toward and hope to
achieve.
• Short-term goals can be
achieved in days or
weeks.
• Long-term goals may
take months or years to
achieve.

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Six Suggestions for Setting Goals

1. Safe Goals should not be harmful to you or others.

2. Satisfying You should feel good about yourself
when you reach your goals.
3. Sensible Set realistic goals that you can really
hope to achieve.
4. Similar Set goals that work well together and do
not contradict one another.
5. Specific The steps to achieve your goals should
be clear.
6. Supported Your goals should be supported by
your parents or other responsible adults.

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Make an Action Plan

• An action plan is a set of directions that help you

reach a goal.
• List the rewards you will have when you reach your
goal.
• Know which influences can hurt you and which
influences can help you as you work toward your
goal.
• Track your progress regularly.

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Now its your turn to practice:
My Goal Instruction Manual:
If you would like to achieve (_________) by this date_______-______-_____

WARNING: Safety---do not attempt this goal unless……………

Instructions for reaching your goal:

Step 1 – Begin by……………….
Step 2 Next………………
Step 3 Then……………..
Step 4,5,6,7,8 etc

List of Rewards for completing this goal

1,2,3,4,5……..

Troubleshooting
If this happens along the way, then do this
1,2,3,4,5………..

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End of Chapter 2

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