Life Skills

Front 1

Assessing Your Health:

Back 1

Will help you evaluate your health; it will help you evaluate how your actions and behaviors affect your health

Front 2

Communicating Effectively:

Back 2

knowing how to listen and speak effectively; these skills will help improve your relationships with your family, friends, classmates, teachers, and other adults

Front 3

Practicing Wellness:

Back 3

will show you how to practice healthy behaviors daily so that you can have a good lifelong health

Front 4

Coping:

Back 4

dealing with troubles or problems in an effective way; will help you deal with difficult times and situations and with emotions such as anger, depression, and loss of a loved one

Front 5

Being a Wise Consumer

Back 5

will help you buy effective products and services appropriate for your health.

Front 6

Evaluating Media Messages

Back 6

will give tools to evaluate media messages helping you make better decisions about health

Front 7

Using Community Resources:

Back 7

health clinics, libraries, and government agencies; will help you find these services and will describe how they can assist you

Front 8

G:

Back 8

Give Thought to the Problem and Consider the Consequences

Front 9

R:

Back 9

Review Your Choices

Front 10

E:

Back 10

Evaluate the Consequences of Each Choice

Front 11

A:

Back 11

Assess and Choose the Best Choice

Front 12

T:

Back 12

Think It Over Afterwards

Front 13

STOP:

Back 13

admit that you made a poor decision. When you admit your faults, you take responsibility for what you’ve done

Front 14

THINK:

Back 14

Tell whomsoever you choose about you decisions and its relative consequences. Discuss ways to correct/better the situation

Front 15

GO:

Back 15

do your best to correct the situation

Front 16

Peer Pressure:

Back 16

is a feeling that you should do something because that is what your friends want

Front 17

Direct Pressure-

Back 17

the pressure that results from someone who tries to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do

Front 18

Indirect Pressure:

Back 18

the pressure that results from being swayed to do something based on everyone else doing the same thing

Front 19

Safe:

Back 19

Make sure that you goal won’t necessarily harm you