Wellness 101
This dimension of health focuses on your body and includes exercise, nutrition, sleep, and medical care.
What is physical health?
These are the beliefs, principles, or ideas that help determine what is important to you.
What are values?
This communication style involves clearly expressing your needs and opinions while also respecting others.
What is assertive communication?
This six-letter decision-making model helps people think through important choices.
What is DECIDE?
The five-letter acronym used to help create effective personal goals.
What is SMART?
Friendships, family relationships, communication, and feeling connected to others are all part of this dimension of health.
What is social health?
Money, clothing, a car, and a phone are examples of this type of value because they involve physical objects.
What are tangible values?
Someone avoids sharing what they really want, frequently gives in to others, and has difficulty saying “no.” This person is using this communication style.
What is passive communication?
Before making an important decision, you first need to clearly identify this.
What is the decision/problem that needs to be made or solved?
This lifestyle behavior gives your brain and body time to recover and affects your mood, concentration, learning, and physical health.
What is sleep?
A person who can recognize feelings, express them appropriately, and cope with difficult emotions is demonstrating strength in this dimension of health.
What is emotional health?
Honesty, friendship, independence, kindness, and family are examples of this type of value.
What are intangible values?
Interrupting, threatening, yelling, blaming, or trying to control another person are characteristics of this communication style.
What is aggressive communication?
Jordan is deciding whether to stay up until 2 a.m. studying or go to bed at 11 p.m. Jordan thinks about how each choice could affect tomorrow's test, mood, and energy. What important decision-making skill is Jordan using?
What is considering/evaluating the consequences?
“I will exercise more” isn't quite a SMART goal yet. Give one change that would make it more measurable.
Answers may vary.
Example: “I will exercise for 30 minutes three days each week.”
Maya spends time outdoors, recycles, and makes an effort to keep her home and community clean and safe. She is supporting this dimension of health.
What is environmental health?
This term describes the overall way a person feels about their own worth and value.
What is self-esteem?
“I feel frustrated when plans change without telling me because I need time to prepare” is an example of this communication tool.
What is an “I” statement?
After making a decision, you ask yourself:
“Did this work? Would I make the same choice again?”
Which part of good decision making are you completing?
What is evaluating the decision/outcome?
Which goal is more likely to be SMART?
A. “I will get healthier.”
B. “For the next four weeks, I will go to bed by 10:30 p.m. on school nights at least four nights each week.”
What is B?
It is specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.
Name four of the six dimensions of health.
Any four of:
What are personal values?
Her values helped guide her behavior and decision.
Your friend wants you to do something that makes you uncomfortable. You respond:
“No, I'm not comfortable doing that, but I'd be happy to do something else with you.”
Identify the communication style and explain what makes it effective.
What is assertive communication?
It clearly communicates a boundary while still respecting the other person.
Sam is offered a ride home by someone who has been drinking. Using good decision-making skills, identify:
Answers may vary but should include:
Taylor has slept only five hours a night for several nights. Taylor is now irritable with friends, struggling to concentrate in class, and exhausted during the day.
Name three dimensions of health that may be affected.
Any three appropriate dimensions, including: