Health and Wellness

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Health and Wellness

• A Quality of Life

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5 Aspects of Wellness
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Physical Health

• Your physical characteristics and the way your
  body functions.
• Weight
• Strength
• Function
• Absence of disease

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Social Health

• Interactions with people to build satisfying
  relationships.
• Starting as early as an infant, learning how to
  interact with your parents.
• Influenced by
• Family
• Social group (yo peeps)
• Close Friends (BFF)
• Environment (ex rain sun)

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Mental Health

• The state of mind that enables you to cope with
  the emotional demand of your everyday life.
• Ability to
• Accept new ideas
• Changing class schedule
• Recognize the reality
• of a situation
• Have a sense of self-worth
• Tolerate things that
• are different
• Race, Sexuality, Opinion

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Emotional Health

• Expressing feelings in an appropriate way.
• Being able to enjoy life at all times even when
  being emotional and physically challenged.

• Express anger without violence
• Express sadness without serious depression

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Spiritual Health

• Maintaining harmonious relationships with other
  living things and having spiritual directions and
  purpose.
• Religion
• Understanding your individual purpose in life.
• Having faith, hope, love,
• and a reverence for living.

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Activity

• Pull out a blank piece of paper
• Name
• Date
• Class Period
• Title it The 5 Aspects of Wellness

• Just like on slide 2 create your own wheel of
  wellness but on each piece of the wheel put two
  things that relate to you.

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Example
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Health and Wellness

• Health
• State of well-being that comes from a good
  balance of the five aspects of health.
• Wellness
• Optimal health in each of the five aspects of
  health
• Self-esteem
• Feeling good about yourself and your abilities
• Social support
• Deriving positive feelings from sharing life
  situations with others
• Physical fitness
• A state in which your body can meet daily life
  demands

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• Health Concerns

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Teen Health

• 1 in 5 teens in the United States has at least
  one serious health problem.

• Each year 3 million teens are infected with a
  sexually transmitted disease.

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Why are You most at risk?

• Young adults take risks everyday its a part of
  growing up and learning how to take the right
  risks.
• Example
• Mr. Dahl will not skydive too much risk
• Family
• Money
• Students
• Too scared
• You might skydive
• Family

Consequence
Consequence