CHAPTER 1 Health, Wellness, Behavior
• Health: Is about the absence of disease
• Wellness: Achieve the highest level of health possible in each dimension
• Target Behavior: One well defined habit chosen as a primary focus for change
• Behavior Change: On organized deliberate effort to alter or replace an existing habit or
pattern of activity
• Risk Factor: a condition that increases ones chances of disease or injury
• Self-efficiency: the degree to which one believes in his or her ability to achieve something
• Internal locus of control: Gives you a strong belief in your ability to effect change
• External Locus of control: Leads you to see other people and things as controlling what
you do and weather you can change.
• Self-talk: the way you think and talk to yourself
• The six dimensions of Wellness:
• Intellectual Wellness: The ability to think clearly, reason objectively, analyze, and use
brain power to solves problems and meet life’s challenges
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• Social Wellness: A persons degree of social connectedness and skills leading to
satisfying interpersonal relationships
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• Physical Wellness: A state of physical health and wellbeing that includes body size
and shape, body functioning, measures of strength and endurance, and resistance to
disease.
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• Spiritual Wellness: a feeling of unity or oneness with people and nature, and a sense
of life’s purpose, meaning or value. For some a belief on a supreme being or religion.
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• Emotional Wellness: The ability to control emotions and express them appropriately
the right times; includes self-esteem, self-confidence, and other emotional qualities.
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• Environmental Wellness: An appreciation of how the external environment can
effect one-self and an understanding of the role one plays in preserving, protecting
and improving it.
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• Additional Dimensions of Wellness
• Occupational and Financial
• Behaviors that contribute to wellness
• Staying physically fit
• Eating healthy food
• Managing stress
• Managing weight
• Avoiding: drugs, alcohol, smoking, abuse, injury
• When implementing a health behavior to your life, what’s the most important thing?
• To become aware and understand the stages of behavior change.
• What are the 5 steps for creating a health behavior and wellness plan?
• Understand the stages of behavior change
• Increase your awareness
• Contemplate changes
• Prepare for change
• Take action to change
• List and Explain the 7 Stages of Behavior Change
• Pre-contemplation: Tired, given up, not wanting to change
• Contemplation: Warming up, making a plan
• Preparation: Inconsistent change, gathering supplies
• Action: Consistent behavior for six or more months
• Maintenance: Prevent relapse
• Relapse: going back to old habits
• Termination: new behavior ingrained
• When setting goals what ae some things to consider?
• What your barriers are, what your capable of
• When setting SMART goals what are some things to consider
• Is it specific
• Is it measurable
• Is it action oriented
• Is it realistic
• Is it time oriented
• Examples of rewards for SMART goals
