DECISION MAKING
Actions that enhance, benefits, and protects our mind and bodies
What is healthy behvaior?
The two forms of communication
What is non-verbal and verbal communication?
Substances that can increase the odds of thinking unclearly
What are alcohol and drugs?
Showing you value the other person's opinion, even if you don't agree.
What is Validate
What are the steps in PROPS?
Pause, Reflect, Options, Prioritize, Select
The two types of decisions you make daily
What are healthy and unhealthy decisions?
One of the most fundamental structures of society
What is Family?
Shared ideas, activities, languages, and other social expressions of members of on group that differentiates it from another group.
What is culture?
Understanding and being sensitive to the other person's feelings, thoughts, and experience.
What is Empathize
What are the steps for assessing risk?
1. Know what kind of risk taker you are
2. Be aware of group energy
3. Watch out for the infulence of alcohol and drugs
4. For some things there is no safe level of risk
5. Talk it out with someone
6. Measure the likely results
7. If you've done something before, your perception of its riskiness is lower
Two techniques to use to keep yourself emotionally balanced.
What is centering and re-framing?
Three examples of non-verbal communication
What is eye contact, facial expressions, body language, or hand gestures?
Keeps something from happening by enhancing our well-being and avoiding harmful behavior
What is prevention?
A situation, person, place, or thing that causes an emotional response.
1. Initiate
2. Mirror
3. Summarize
4. Validate
5. Empathize
A situation with more than one possible outcome
What is a dilemma?
Taking responsibility for our own thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and actions.
What is Accountability?
The five types of media presented in the LifeSkills unit
What is internet, music, television, movies, and books?
Shaping a message so that they attract a specific group of people who share individual or cultural interests, beliefs, and practices.
What is Targeting
Top five reasons people use media
Entertainment, Excitement, Coping, Identification with a group, Seeking information
Acronym of a decision-making method
What is the PROPS method?
Describe a situation in which someone’s words say one thing and their nonverbal communication says something different.
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To have control of emotions and behaviors.
What is self-control?
To have respect, esteem, or appreciation for an object, relationship, or idea.
What is Value?
Five ways the media can influence our perceptions.
Information and Entertainment, Health, Gender, Sex and Dating