Wellness + Decision Making

Lesson #1

Health Status: The condition of a person’s body, mind, emotions, and relationships.

1. A person’s heredity

2. The quality of the environment in which a person lives

3. The random events that occur in a person’s life

4. The health care a person receives

5. The behaviors and situations a person chooses

Health Status (cont.)

6. The quality of the relationships a person has

7. The decisions a person makes

8. A person’s ability to use resistance skills

9. The kinds of risks a person takes

10. The degree to which a person is resilient

Behaviors / Factors

Healthful Behavior: action that a person chooses that promotes health, prevents injury or illness, and improves the quality of life.

Risk Behavior: action a person chooses that threatens health, can cause injury or illness, and destroys the environment.

Protective Factor: something that increases the likelihood of a positive outcome.

Risk Factor: something that increases the likelihood of a negative outcome.

Relationships

Healthful Relationship: positive behaviors

Harmful Relationship: negative behaviors

Communication: very important to be skilled in this for your relationships.

Decisions

Responsible Decisions: choice that leads to positive outcomes.

Wrong Decisions: choice that leads to negative outcomes.

SituationsHealthful situation: positive circumstance

that promote health and prevent injury, illness, or premature death.

Risk situation: negative circumstance that threatens health and can cause injury, illness, or premature death.

Risks

Risk: unknown outcome

Calculated Risk: Careful consideration of the possible outcomes

Unnecessary Risk: Chance that is not worth taking

How to take responsibility for your health

• Quality of Life: is the degree to which a person lives to the fullest capacity.

• Wellness: is the quality of life that results from a person’s health status.

• The wellness scale: scale that shows the ranges in quality of life.

The Wellness Scale

Premature Major Minor Average High Level Optiomal

Death Illness Illness Wellness Wellness Wellness

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Injury Injury

Wellness is the quality of life that results from your health status.

The Wellness Scale

Risk Behaviors in Teens

1. Unintentional and intentional injuries

2. Tobacco use

3. Alcohol and other drug use

4. Sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection, other STDs, and pregnancy

5. Diet choices that contribute to disease

6. Lack of physical activity

Dimensions of Wellness (6)

• Environmental Wellness

• Emotional Wellness

• Physical Wellness

• Social Wellness

• Spiritual Wellness

• Intellectual Wellness

Guess the areas of wellness?