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Vocabulary
- Life skill - tool for building a healthy life
- Coping - Dealing with problems and troubles in an effective way
- Consumer - A person who buys products or services
- Resource - Something that you can use to achieve a goal
Life Skills
Life skills help improve the six components of health. E.g. a skill can improve your social health by teaching communication.
Some can effect all six components. E.g. making good decisions. Decisions are everywhere in the six components.
Ten life skills
- Assessing your health - Allows you to figure out what improves or worsens your health.
- Communicating effectively - Can strengthen relationships with others
- Practicing wellness - How to practice healthy behaviors daily
- Coping - Helps with difficult times, situations and emotions
- Being a wise consumer - Helps make good decisions when buying health products and services
- Evaluating media messages - Take in information and gauge what is correct and incorrect, can help make better decisions about health
- Using community resources - E.g. using libraries, health clinics and Gov. agencies to better health
- Making GREAT decisions - Model for making better decisions, better health decisions
- Using refusal skills - Avoid risky situations with refusal skills, e.g. avoiding alcohol/drugs
- Setting goals - Tips on how to reach goals. Ref. Section2.4