Chapter 2 Vocabulary

specific tools and strategies that help you maintain, protect, and improve all aspects of your health.

• Interpersonal Communication

• Health Skills

• Refusal Skills

the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people.

• Interpersonal Communication

• Conflict Resolution

• Advocacy

communication strategies that can help you say no when you are urged to take part in behaviors that are unsafe or unhealthful, or that go against your values.

• Conflict Resolution

• Refusal Skills

• Health Skills

the process of ending a conflict through cooperation and problem solving.

• Conflict Resolution

• Advocacy

• Refusal Skills

ways to deal with or overcome the negative effects of

stress

• Stress Management

• Health Skills

• Refusal Skills

taking action to influence others to address a health-related concern or to support a health-related belief

• Advocacy

• Conflict Resolution

• Refusal Skills

steps that enable you to make a healthful decision

• long-term goal

• values

• Decision Making Skills

ways to deal with or overcome the negative effects of

stress

• goal

• values

• action plan

goal that you can reach in a short period of time

• long-term goal

• short-term goal

a goal that you plan to reach over an extended period of time.

• long-term goal

• short-term goal