Decision Making-6-8

Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.

Demonstrate procedures for communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict. Demonstrate Christian integrity by communicating in positive ways, resolving differences and preventing conflict.

Apply decision-making skills related to the protection and promotion of individual health. Apply decision-making skills that promote the concept that God has given us the gift of life that calls us to respect and protect our individual health.

Demonstrate skills essential to enhancing health and avoiding dangerous situations. Demonstrate responsibility through action, respecting and protecting our bodies by avoiding dangerous situations.

Describe possible causes and consequences of conflict and violence among youth in schools and communities.

Demonstrate methods for addressing interpersonal differences without harm (e.g., avoidance, compromise, cooperation).

Explain how positive communication helps to build and maintain relationships at school, at home and in the workplace.

Apply a decision-making process to an individual health concern.

Apply refusal and negotiation skills to potentially harmful situations.

Use conflict resolution techniques to resolve problems.

Practice polite behavior in words and deeds. 

Define methods for addressing interpersonal differences in a positive manner.

Demonstrate courage to stand up for convictions through conflict management remembering that God wants everyone to be peace makers. 

Use the decision-making process to assess and solve an individual health problem.

Discuss how individuals can control their responses to other people’s choices.

Compare and contrast consequences for good and bad health choices.

Promote a persistent attitude toward the task of healthy living and remember that a healthy person can serve God more actively. 

Establish a plan of action for avoiding dangerous situations.

Practice refusal skills in order to avoid potentially harmful situations (e.g., substance abuse, peer pressure).

Discuss peer pressure in terms of needing to use refusal skills. 

Be stewards of the Lord by living the Gospel. 

Recognize the command to “love your neighbor as yourself,” then protect self and others from harm.