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Adult Education Life Management Skills (Health)
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This course is all about you and the important decisions you make. It’s also about having the correct information before making those decisions. We’ll deal with real issues like nutrition, substance abuse, coping with stress, and what to do about sex.
Good health is both mental and physical. Making good decisions starts with knowing the facts, understanding the consequences, and having the confidence to choose well. A series of signposts will take you through the course providing information, direction, and a little encouragement. We’ll also offer some important tools for communicating your feelings and opinions. We’ll even talk about being a savvy consumer in a world of advertising, credit cards, and designer jeans. This course comes with a long-term payoff because the good decisions you make now will set a positive direction you can follow for a lifetime.
Major Topics and Concepts
- Nurturing self-esteem in self and family
- Effective parenting skills and responsibilities
- Nutrition based on food guide pyramid, dietary guidelines and food label laws, nutrient functions, and sources
- Eating disorders and weight management
- Food safety and prevention of food-born illness
- Effective communication skills including “I” messages, active listening, communication barriers, communication styles, and the importance of family communication
- Cultural influences on communication
- Nonverbal communication
- Refusal skills for peer pressure and other influences
- Conflict resolution process
- Physical, mental, emotional, social, economic, and legal consequences of drug use including alcohol and tobacco
- Identifying addictions and finding help for them
- Causes and effects of stress on the body and management techniques for stress
- Time management tools and personal application
- Value identification, personal application of values
- Goal setting and personal applications
- Decision Making
- Suicide prevention and depression
- Advertising influences and techniques
- Consumer rights/responsibilities and governmental consumer protection agencies
- Healthcare savvy
- Credit card rights, responsibilities, costs, dangers and fraud prevention
- Checking/Saving account procedures
- Environment and conservation procedures
- Reproductive system structures functions and disorders
- Issues surrounding testicular cancer and breast cancer prevention
- Teen Pregnancy health risks and consequences, sexual activity costs vs. abstinence
- Sexually transmitted diseases, their cycle, and consequences
- CPR performance
Competencies
Avoiding and Minimizing Risky Behaviors
Students will demonstrate an understanding of avoiding and minimizing risky behaviors by summarizing factors that influence behavior, explaining the access of information and services to enhance health, and describing disease prevention.
Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships
Students will demonstrate an understanding of creating and maintaining healthy relationships by explaining the importance of treatment of others with dignity and respect, explaining the avoidance of substance abuse, and summarizing the daily practices of health-enhancing behaviors.
Family and Community Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of family and community health by describing the use of interpersonal communication skills to enhance health, explaining the elements of health care plans, and explaining advocacy for family and community health to avoid health risks.
Healthy Eating
Students will demonstrate an understanding of healthy eating by explaining the benefits of healthy eating habits, explaining tools for eating healthy, and summarizing strategies for healthy food choices. Ratings table Proficiency Rating Points Description for mastery level 1: MasteredMastered Points for mastery level 1: 11 Description for mastery level 2: Not MasteredNot Mastered Points for mastery level 2: 00 Mastery at: 1 points Proficiency Calculation: Achieve mastery 2 times Select outcome 4642 Managing Physical and Mental Health 4642 Managing Physical and Mental Health Students will demonstrate an understanding of managing physical and mental health by explaining the impact of healthy habits on overall wellness, explaining the body and mind connection and describing strategies for meeting health goals.
Managing Physical and Mental Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of managing physical and mental health by explaining the impact of healthy habits on overall wellness, explaining the body and mind connection and describing strategies for meeting health goals.
