SPECIAL TOPICS TAUGHT IN WELLNESS

Physical Health

1. Fitness Assessments
   1. Flexibility, Strength, Endurance, %Body Fat, Height/Weight
   2. Target Heart Rate
   3. Basil  Metabolic Rate
   4. Body Fat Index
   5. Use of technologies
2. PE Skills for Lifetime Fitness
3. PE Skills for Team Sports Interaction
4. Degenerative Diseases and Disorders
   1. Diabetes
   2. Cancer
   3. Cardiovascular Disease
   4. Obesity
   5. Genetic risk factors
5. Safety Education & Behavioral risk factors

Mental & Emotional Health

1. Wellness Triangle & Continuum
2. Wellness surveys
3. Stress Management strategies
4. Suicide prevention
5. Death & Dying issues (stages of grief)
6. Addiction prevention

1. Tobacco, alcohol, other drugs
2. Eating disorders
3. Internet &  Video games
5. Self-confidence & Decision Making Skills
   1. Dealing with failure
   2. Goal setting steps

Social & Emotional Health

1.   Healthy Peer relationships

a.   Communication/listening (assertiveness  and refusal skills)

b.   Responsibilities of the family

c.   Defining needs and want

d.   Conflict resolution (peer mediation)

2.   Healthy Family Relationships

a.   Communication/listening  skills (affective listening)

b.   Responsibilities of the family

c.   Defining needs and wants

d.   Conflict resolution

3.   STD’s & AIDS  Awareness prevention (Abstinence)

4.   Reproductive System  (physical & emotional changes)

5.   Violence Prevention & Internet Safety