High School Health - Vocabulary List 1

Health

Quality of life, including physical, mental-emotional, and family-social health.

Wellness

Quality of life resulting from health status.

Value

Standard or belief, such as compassion, good citizenship, or respect.

Habits

Fixed, automatic behaviors.

Communication Skills

Skills, such as active listening, that help you share feelings, thoughts, and information with others.

Active Listening

A way of responding by clarifying, restating, summarizing, or affirming that shows you hear and understand what someone is saying.

Negative Peer Pressure

Influence from peers to act irresponsibly.

Self Control

The degree to which one regulates his or her own behavior.

Self Esteem

A person's positive or negative belief about his or her worth.

Peer Pressure

The positive or negative influence that peers consciously or unconsciously place on others to behave in certain ways.

Codependent

A person who neglects himself or herself and instead wants to come for, rescue, or control someone else.

Risk

 chance taken without knowledge of the outcome; it can be calculated and have positive effects and be unnecessary, or have negative effects.

Health Goal

Healthful behavior you work to achieve and maintain.

Protective Factor

Something that increases the chances of a positive outcome

Assertive Behavior

Expressing ideas, feelings, and decisions without feeling threatened by others' reactions.

Mediation

The process in which an outside person helps people in a conflict find a healthful, safe, nonviolent solution.

Random Event

An incident over which a person has little or no control.

Volunteer Burnout

Loss of enthusiasm about volunteering that results from feeling overwhelmed.

Personality

An individual's unique pattern of characteristics influenced by heredity, behavior, environment, and attitude, which make him or her different from others.

Resiliency

The ability to adjust, recover, bounce back, and learn from hard times.