Total health
These are the three sides of the Health Triangle.
What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health?
Teenagers should generally get this many hours of sleep each night.
What is 8–10 hours?
This is your belief about your own worth and value
What is self-esteem?
This is the ability to understand another person’s feelings or point of view.
What is empathy?
Jordan stays up until 2:00 a.m. and struggles to concentrate in class. Which two areas of health are being affected?
What are physical and mental/emotional health?
This word describes a healthy balance among the different areas of your life.
What is wellness or total health?
This nutrient is the body’s preferred and quickest source of energy
What are carbohydrates?
This is the body and mind’s response to demands or challenges.
What is stress?
This communication style clearly expresses your needs while respecting other people.
What is assertive communication?
Ava calmly tells a friend, “I don’t like being spoken to that way. Please stop.” What skill is she using?
What is assertive communication or boundary-setting?
This side of the Health Triangle includes thoughts, feelings, and reactions to challenges.
What is mental/emotional health
Exercise may improve your mood by causing your brain to release these chemicals.
What are endorphins?
This is the event or situation that causes a stress response
What is a stressor?
These personal limits protect your comfort, safety, time, and well-being in relationships.
What are boundaries?
Carlos begins exercising with friends and notices that he feels happier and less lonely. Which three areas improved?
What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health?
This happens because the three areas of health affect one another
What is interdependence?
name three habits that support good physical health
What are exercise, nutritious eating, sufficient sleep, hydration, hygiene, and avoiding harmful substances?
Name two healthy strategies someone could use to manage stress.
What are exercise, talking to someone, breathing exercises, journaling, sleep, time management, or taking a break?
Name two qualities of a healthy relationship
: What are trust, honesty, respect, communication, support, fairness, and appropriate boundaries?
Taylor feels overwhelmed by schoolwork, stops sleeping well, and begins avoiding friends. What started the chain reaction?
What is stress caused by a school-related stressor?
Explain why a person who is physically fit may not necessarily have good total health.
They could still struggle with mental/emotional health or unhealthy relationships.
This type of exercise makes the heart and lungs work harder for an extended period.
What is aerobic or cardiovascular exercise?
his skill involves recognizing your emotions and understanding how they influence your behavior
What is self-awareness?
Explain the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication.
Passive communication avoids expressing needs; aggressive communication ignores others’ rights; assertive communication expresses needs clearly and respectfully.
A student eats nutritious food and exercises regularly but constantly insults others and cannot maintain friendships. Which part of the Health Triangle needs the most improvement?
What is social health?