Building Health Skills

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Taking responsibility for your health begins with a commitment to take charge of your actions and behaviors

in a way that reduces risks and promotes wellness.

Building Health Skills

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• Demonstrate communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships

• Describe refusal strategies and conflict resolution skills

• Formulate self-management strategies

• Assess influences on behavior

• Identify evaluation criteria for health information

In this lesson, you will learn to:

Lesson Objectives

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The first step in taking responsibility for your health is to develop health skills.

Health Skills


LessonLesson 11Interpersonal Communication

One of the traits of a health-literate individual is having effective communication skills. Interpersonal communication involves not only making yourself heard but also being a good listener.

Effective communication skills involve:

• Clearly saying what you mean.

• Paying attention to how you say something.

• Being a good listener.

Interpersonal Skills

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Refusal skills can be used to handle situations in which you are asked do something that you know is harmful or wrong.

Sometimes you must reinforce your decision to say no.

• Say NO in a firm voice.

• Explain why.

• Suggest alternatives.

• Use appropriate body language.

• Leave if necessary.

Refusal Skills


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• In addition to practicing effective refusal skills, it is important to develop and apply strategies for dealing with conflicts or disagreements and avoiding violence.

• The key to conflict resolution is respecting others’ rights and your own.

Conflict Resolution Skills


LessonLesson 11Steps When Dealing with a Conflict Situation

Take time to calm down and think through the situation.

When discussing the conflict, speak calmly and listen attentively, asking questions when appropriate.

Use a polite tone and try to brainstorm solutions where no one loses respect.


LessonLesson 11Practicing Healthful Behaviors

Self-Management Skills

Eat nutritious foods.

Get regular medical and dental checkups.

Express your feelings in healthful ways.

Build your self-esteem.

Maintain healthy relationships.

LessonLesson 11Managing Stress

• Stress, the body’s and mind’s reactions to everyday demands, is a natural part of life.

• Learning stress management will become increasingly important as you assume more responsibility for your health and take on additional roles as an adult.


LessonLesson 11Analyzing Influences

Factors Influencing Your Health

Internal influences include your knowledge, values, likes, dislikes, and desires.

These are based on your experiences and your perspective on life.

Internal Influences External Influences

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• Parents, guardians, and other trusted adults

• Library resources

• Reliable Internet sites

• Newspapers and magazines

• Government agencies and health organizations

Reliable Sources of Health Information

Accessing Information

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• Advocacy enables you to positively influence the health of those around you.

• You can help others become informed and publicly support health causes that concern and interest you.

• Encouraging family, friends, peers, and community members to practice healthful behaviors is one way to practice health advocacy.

What Is Advocacy?

Advocacy

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1. Stress management

2. Character

3. Interpersonal communication

4. Advocacy

Q. _____ is a responsible role in

which you influence others’ health behaviors.

Choose the appropriate option.

Quick Review

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A. 4. advocacyAdvocacy is a responsible role in which you influence others’ health behaviors.

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Quick Review - Answer

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1. Say no in a firm voice and suggest alternatives

2. Resist explaining why you are saying no.

3. Use appropriate body language.

4. Leave, if necessary.

Q. Which of the following is not a refusal strategy?

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A. 2. Resist explaining why you are saying no. “To resist explaining why you are saying no” is not a refusal strategy. It is effective to explain why you are saying no.

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Q. Stress management is a way of dealing with or overcoming the negative effects of stress. Which of the following are some strategies for managing stress?

Quick Review

1. Engaging in physical activities

2. Listening to soothing music

3. Writing about how you feel in a journal

4. All of the above

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A. 4. All of the above.

Stress management is a way of dealing with or overcoming the negative effects of stress. Some strategies for managing stress include engaging in physical activity, listening to soothing music, writing about how you feel in a journal.

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Q. To advocate a health

cause or organization is to show disapproval for it.

True

False

Quick Review

Choose the appropriate option.

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A. False. Advocacy is a way to show support for a health cause or organization.


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A. Correct! Advocacy is a responsible role in which you

influence others’ health behaviors.



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A. Correct! A refusal strategy is not to resist explaining

why you are saying no. It is very effective to explain why you are saying no.



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A. Correct! Stress management is a way of dealing with or

overcoming the negative effects of stress. Some strategies for managing stress include engaging in physical activity, listening to soothing music, writing about how you feel in a journal.



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A. Correct! Advocacy is a way to show support for a health

cause or organization.



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Internal Influences External Influences

External influences come from outside sources.

These include your family, your friends and peers, your environment, your culture, laws, and the media.

Factors Influencing Your Health

Analyzing Influences

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A health skill is a specific tool and strategy that helps you maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health.

A health skill is a specific tool and strategy that helps you maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health.

Health Skills

The first step in taking responsibility for your health is to develop health skills.


LessonLesson 11Interpersonal Communication

One of the traits of a health-literate individual is having effective communication skills. Interpersonal communication involves not only making yourself heard but also being a good listener.

Effective communication skills involve:

• Clearly saying what you mean.

• Paying attention to how you say something.

• Being a good listener.

Interpersonal communication is the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.

Interpersonal communication is the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.


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Refusal skills can be used to handle situations in which you are asked do something that you know is harmful or wrong.

Sometimes you must reinforce your decision to say no.

• Say NO in a firm voice.

• Explain why.

• Suggest alternatives.

• Use appropriate body language.

• Leave if necessary.

Refusal Skills

A refusal skill is a communication strategy that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values.

A refusal skill is a communication strategy that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values.


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• In addition to practicing effective refusal skills, it is important to develop and apply strategies for dealing with conflicts or disagreements and avoiding violence.

• The key to conflict resolution is respecting others’ rights and your own.

Conflict Resolution Skills

Conflict resolution is the process of solving a disagreement through cooperation and problem solving.

Conflict resolution is the process of solving a disagreement through cooperation and problem solving.


LessonLesson 11Managing Stress

• Stress, the body’s and mind’s reactions to everyday demands, is a natural part of life.

• Learning stress management will become increasingly important as you assume more responsibility for your health and take on additional roles as an adult.

Stress management is a way to deal with or overcome the negative effects of stress.

Stress management is a way to deal with or overcome the negative effects of stress.


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• Advocacy enables you to positively influence the health of those around you.

• You can help others become informed and publicly support health causes that concern and interest you.

• Encouraging family, friends, peers, and community members to practice healthful behaviors is one way to practice health advocacy.

What Is Advocacy?

Advocacy is taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief.

Advocacy is taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief.

Advocacy

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