Building Your Health Triangle: Decision-Making and Balance in Life

1. Journal #3 • Draw your very own health triangle! • How are you feeling at this moment? • In balance? Out of balance? • What are you doing to keep you physical side of the triangle healthy? Mental/Emotional? Social? • List 5 things you can do to keep balanced.

2. Decision Making & Resistance Skills

3. Decision Making Skills • Steps that enable you to make a healthful decision • These steps are designed to help you make decisions that protect your rights and health • It is important to seek advice from those with more experience then yourself

4. Many Ways to Make a Decision • Flipping a coin • Using tarot cards or astrology • Accepting the first option • Listing advantages and disadvantages • Asking an “expert” • Calculating each value • Using Decision Making Model

6. Protective Factors • being reared in a loving, functional family • being involved in school activities • having positive self-esteem • having clearly defined goals and plans to reach them • having close friends- regularly practicing one's faith • feeling a sense of accomplishment at school • having a role model • having a healthful attitude about competition and athletics • being committed to following community rules • having a plan to cope with life's stressors

7. Risk Factors - dysfunctional family- low self-esteem- being unable to resist peer pressure or influence- lacking faith experiences- genetically predisposed to chemical dependency- experiencing family disruptions- experiencing depression- experiencing academic and/or athletic pressure

8. Decision Making Styles • Inactive-Fail to make choices, and this failure determines what will happen. • Reactive-Allow others to make your decisions, influenced by what others think, wanting to be liked by others. • Proactive-Examine the decision to be made, identify and evaluate actions, select actions, and take responsibility (uses the decision making model).

9. Decision Making Tips • Do not make decisions that are not yours to make. • Avoid snap decisions. • Consider those affected by your decision. • Do your decision making on paper. • Trust yourself to make a decision and then to be able to field the consequences appropriately.

10. Resistance Skills • Skills that are used when you want to say no to an action or to leave a situation • Say no in an assertive way • Give reasons for saying no • Use nonverbal behavior to match verbal behavior • Avoid being in situations where there will be peer pressure • Resist pressure to engage in illegal behavior • Influence others to make responsible decisions

12. Decision Making Skills • These steps are designed to help you make decisions that protect your rights and health • It is important to seek advice from those with more experience then yourself

13. Many Ways to Make a Decision • Using tarot cards or astrology • Listing advantages and disadvantages • Calculating each value

14. Making Decisions

15. We all have biases • Selective search for evidence • Repetition bias • Group think

16. Decision Making Styles • Inactive- • -Allow others to make your decisions, influenced by what others think, wanting to be liked by others. • -Examine the decision to be made, identify and evaluate actions, select actions, and take responsibility (uses the decision making model).

17. Decision Making Tips • Avoid snap decisions. • Do your decision making on paper.

18. Resistance Skills • Skills that are used when you want to say no to an action or to leave a situation