Health and Wellness

What is Health?

• Health is only social

• Health is only physical

• Health is the balance of social, mental/emotional and physical health.

• Health is only mental/emotional.

How do you achieve wellness?

• Work towards balancing all areas.

• If you ignore an area your health suffers.

• If you make improvements to an area, the others will benefit.

What is true about the health triangle?

• The health triangle consists of physical health and social health only.

• If a person ignores one side of the health triangle, his or her total health suffers.

• The three sides of the health triangle are NOT equal.

• A person ONLY needs to work on one aspect of health in order to obtain wellness.

You get into a fight and break your wrist?

• Mental/Emotional

• Physical

• Social

• Hurtful

Your friends are mad at you because you got them into trouble.

• Mental/Emotional

• Physical

• Social

• Sad

You lost a big basketball match and you are feeling sad.

• Mental/Emotional

• Physical

• Social

• Unhappy

You got into a fight and broke your arm (). All of your friends started making sure you were okay and would hang out with you (). This made you feel happy ().

• Mental, Physical, Mental/Emotional

• Physical, social, Mental/Emotional.

• Mental/Emotional, Physical, Social

• Physical, Mental/Emotional, social.

What happens if one side of the health triangle is affected negatively?

• Your health stays the same

• Only that one side drops.

• The other two drop negatively but the one affected stays the same

• All sides of the Health Triangle are affected.