Mastering Health Skills & Communication

Mastering Health Skills and Communication

Developing expertise in essential health practices and techniques to grow and mature as a teen and young adult.

Mastering Health Skills

Self-Management

• 1. Monitor

• 2. Evaluate

• 3. Adjust one's behavior to enhance personal health and safety.

Self-Management

Self-Management is a skill that involves assessing, analyzing, applying knowledge, monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting behavior to enhance personal health and safety. It empowers individuals to take control of their well-being and make informed decisions. By practicing self-management, individuals can lead healthier and safer lives.

Multiple Choice

Which skill involves monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting one's behavior to enhance personal health and safety?

• Self-Management

• Relationship Management

• Critical Thinking

• Decision Making

Mastering Health Skills

• Stress Management: Learn to manage positive and negative change in health-enhancing ways.
• Communication: Listen, understand, and express oneself in respectful, safe, and health-enhancing ways.
• Decision Making: Make well-informed choices to enhance personal, family, and community health and safety.

Decision Making

Trivia: Decision making is a skill that involves making well-informed choices to enhance personal, family, and community health and safety. It is an essential skill that helps individuals navigate through various situations and make the best possible decisions. By developing strong decision-making skills, individuals can improve their overall well-being and contribute to the well-being of others.

Multiple Choice

Which skill involves making well-informed choices to enhance personal, family, and community health and safety?

• Stress Management

• Communication

• Decision Making

• None of the above

Match

Match the following

• Manage positive and negative change in health enhancing ways.

  
  

• Persuade others to promote, support or behave in ways that enhance personal, family and community health.

  
  

• Listen, understand and express oneself in respectful, safe and health enhancing ways.

  
  

• Interpersonal and intra-personal knowledge and skills

  
  

Stress Management

Advocacy

Communication

Relationship Management

• Stress Management

• Advocacy

• Communication

• Relationship Management

Planning & Goal Setting

Develop health-enhancing short-term and long-term goals. Implement, evaluate, and revise health-enhancing plans to accomplish goals.

Developing Health-Enhancing Plans

Trivia: Setting health-enhancing short-term and long-term goals is crucial for developing effective plans. It allows individuals to evaluate and revise their strategies, ensuring they accomplish their health goals. By implementing these plans, individuals can enhance their overall well-being and lead a healthier lifestyle.

Multiple Select

Which of the following is part of the health skill Planning and Goal Setting?

• Evaluate and revise health-enhancing plans

• Implement health-enhancing plans

• Accomplish health-enhancing plans

• Develop health-enhancing plans

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Advocacy
persuade others to promote, support or behave in ways that enhance personal, family and community health.

  

Relationship Management
Interpersonal and intra-personal knowledge and skills

All things
COMMUNICATION

Multiple Select

Which communication skill involves demonstrating active listening and understanding?

• Summarizing

• Encouraging

• Restating

• Clarifying

• Empathyzing

Verbal vs non-verbal communication

Verbal communication

The exchange of words - including
written

Focuses on how you use words and
language

Interaction by face to face, over the
phone or electronic/snail mail

Regardless of channels, people need
language to communicate, read and
interact effectively.

Non-Verbal communication

Components other than words that
generate meaning

Components such as body language,
gestures, and eye contact

Non-verbal communication expresses
emotional meaning

Multiple Select

Check all types of Verbal Communication

Multiple Select

Check all types of NON Verbal Communication

Barriers to Communication

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Lack of attention or interest

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Distractions

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Interruptions

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Multitasking

❏

Emotions

❏

Opinions about the message

❏

Language/vocabulary that is difficult to
understand

❏

Noisy surroundings

Multiple Select

Which of the following can be barriers to communication?

• Lack of attention/distractions

• Opinions/emotions

• Language

• Multitasking

• Interruptions

● Ask questions for clarification

● Maintain eye contact

and face your speaker

● Be relaxed and do not

let yourself get

distracted

● Keep an open mind

● Picture the words of

the speaker and provide

feedback

To be a good Active Listener...

Active Listening

Trivia: Did you know that active listening involves demonstrating understanding and clarifying information? It goes beyond just hearing the words. Active listeners also use techniques like summarizing and restating to show their engagement. Encouraging the speaker is another important aspect of active listening. So, next time you're in a conversation, try practicing active listening skills!

Multiple Select

To be an active listener you should...

• Make eye contact

• Continue doing a task as the person speaks

• Practice using good posture

• Read or watch videos on your phone while the person is speaking

• Complete other work during a conversation

Multiple Select

To be an active listener you should...

• Use appropriate facial expressions and gestures

• Ask questions at appropriate times to clarify your understanding

• Interrupt when you don't agree with what they are saying

• Ignore Distractions

• Complete other work

Mastering Listening Skills

• SUMMARIZING: Review and highlight important parts of the message.
• ENCOURAGING: Show interest and keep the person talking.
• RESTATING: Demonstrate active listening and understanding.
• CLARIFYING: Clear up doubts and gather more information.
• EMPATHIZING: Respect their point of view and understand their feelings.

Multiple Choice

Match the correct definition to the Active listening Skill: SUMMARIZING

• Review and highlight important parts of the message

• Show interest and keep the person talking

• Demonstrate active listening by retelling directions or steps

• Clear up doubts and gather more information

• Respect their point of view, understand their feelings

Multiple Choice

Match the correct definition to the Active listening Skill: EMPATHIZING

• Review and highlight important parts of the message

• Show interest and keep the person talking

• Demonstrate active listening by retelling directions or steps

• Clear up doubts and gather more information

• Respect their point of view, understand their feelings

Multiple Choice

Match the correct definition to the Active listening Skill: CLARIFYING

• Review and highlight important parts of the message

• Show interest and keep the person talking

• Demonstrate active listening by retelling directions or steps

• Clear up doubts and gather more information

• Respect their point of view, understand their feelings

Multiple Choice

Match the correct definition to the Active listening Skill: RESTATING

• Review and highlight important parts of the message

• Show interest and keep the person talking

• Demonstrate active listening by retelling directions or steps

• Clear up doubts and gather more information

• Respect their point of view, understand their feelings

Multiple Choice

Match the correct definition to the Active listening Skill: ENCOURAGING

• Review and highlight important parts of the message

• Show interest and keep the person talking

• Demonstrate active listening by retelling directions or steps

• Clear up doubts and gather more information

• Respect their point of view, understand their feelings

TONE

Assertive

Avoids the problem

Lack of confidence

Poor body language

Non-active

May let others walk over

them

Gets “passed” over

Focuses on others

needs/wants instead

of their own

Expresses feelings but
respects the feelings of

the person they are

talking to also

Speaks clearly and

confidently

Appropriate volume

Manners

Honest

Calm

Focuses on own

needs/wants and not

others

Disrespectful

Loud

Angry facial expressions

Opinionated

Over-confident

Demanding

May impose on personal

space

Aggressive

Passive

Tones of Voice

Multiple Choice

Which is true of a passive tone

• Uses appropriate volume, maintains their own boundaries and good manners, is honest, Expresses feelings with respect to the other person

• Focuses on their own needs/wants, is disrespectful, invades the other person's boundaries (emotional and/or physical)

• Focuses on pleasing the other person instead of maintaining their own boundaries, avoids confrontation, poor body language

Multiple Choice

Which is true of an assertive tone

• Uses appropriate volume, maintains their own boundaries and good manners, is honest, Expresses feelings with respect to the other person

• Focuses on their own needs/wants, is disrespectful, invades the other person's boundaries (emotional and/or physical)

• Focuses on pleasing the other person instead of maintaining their own boundaries, avoids confrontation, poor body language

Multiple Choice

Which is true of an aggressive tone

• Uses appropriate volume, maintains their own boundaries and good manners, is honest, Expresses feelings with respect to the other person

• Focuses on their own needs/wants, is disrespectful, invades the other person's boundaries (emotional and/or physical)

• Focuses on pleasing the other person instead of maintaining their own boundaries, avoids confrontation, poor body language

Multiple Choice

The exchange of information through the use of words, actions and listening is

• Body Language

• Communication

• Active Listening

• Writing a letter