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Standard 1.0 Mental and Emotional Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use mental and emotional health knowledge, skills, and strategies to enhance wellness.
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Standard 1.0 Mental and Emotional Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use mental and emotional health knowledge, skills, and strategies to enhance wellness.
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Standard 1.0 Mental and Emotional Health: Students will demonstrate the ability to use mental and emotional health knowledge, skills, and strategies to enhance wellness.
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A. Communication
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A. Communication
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A. Communication
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1. Recognize and apply effective communication skills.
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1. Recognize and apply effective communication skills.
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1. Recognize and apply effective communication skills.
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a. Demonstrate effective listening skills.
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a. Identify reasons for advocacy, including for needs and rights of others, healthy social environment, and fairness.
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a. Analyze barriers to effective communication.
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b. Demonstrate effective speaking skills.
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b. Demonstrate effective advocacy skills, in oral and written forms.
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b. Utilize/model strategies to overcome barriers when communicating information, ideas, emotions, and opinions.
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c. Demonstrate ways to communicate respect for diversity, including mental and physical disabilities, culture, and race/ethnicity.
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c. Evaluate effective communication in everyday situations.
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B. Emotions
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1. Establish how emotions influence behavior.
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a. Synthesize positive ways to manage emotions.
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C. Components of Personal Well-being
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C. Components of Personal Well-being
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1. Analyze components to promote personal well-being.
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1. Apply the components of personal well-being to develop lifelong wellness skills and strategies.
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a. Define and give examples of the components of personal well-being, identified as spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional/mental, social, and environmental.
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a. Explain the importance of assuming responsibilities of personal health behavior.
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b. Investigate the components of personal well-being to assess areas of personal need.
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b. Compose a personal health goal and measure progress towards its achievement.
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c. Devise a plan that addresses personal strengths, needs, and health risks.
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D. Decision Making
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1. Apply the decision-making process to personal issues and problems.
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a. Predict how decisions regarding behavior have consequences for self and others.
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b. Analyze how decisions are influenced by external conditions including culture and the media.
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E. Character Traits
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1. Examine personal assets and strengths that contribute to ones uniqueness.
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a. Develop strategies to incorporate positive character traits.
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F. Stress
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1. Investigate factors associated with personal stress.
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a. Identify personal stressors.
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b. Evaluate and analyze strategies to manage stress.
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c. Apply coping skills to manage real-life situations.
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G. Conflict Resolution
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1. Recognize the nature of conflict and conflict-resolution.
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a. Identify sources of conflict.
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b. Identify solutions for conflict.
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c. Summarize conflict resolution strategies.
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d. Demonstrate conflict resolution strategies, including collaboration, negotiation, and refusal to avoid harmful situations to self and others.
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H. Self Image
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7. Compare internal and external influences on self image.
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a. Analyze how self image is influenced by external forces, such as media, friends, family, and role models.
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b. Analyze how self image is influenced by internal forces, such as heredity, interests, and likes/dislikes.
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I. Personal Goals
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1. Implement a strategy and evaluate progress toward achieving personal goals.
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a. Identify the importance of setting goals.
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b. Explain how changing information, abilities, priorities, and responsibilities influence personal goals.
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c. Evaluate strategies, skills and resources that are used to achieve personal goals.
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d. Develop a goal to adopt, maintain or improve a personal wellness habit.
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e. Construct a plan to achieve a personal wellness goal.
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J. Mental Illness, Depression, Suicide
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1. Identify potential destructive behaviors.
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a. Identify warning signs of depression, suicide and/or other destructive behaviors.
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b. Identify resources that address depression and suicide.
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c. Examine suicide prevention strategies.
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