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Wellness for Life
Chapter Fifteen
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Developing Successful Interpersonal
Relationships
• Human beings need social relationships
• We cannot thrive as solitary creatures
• Forming relationships
• Self-Concept and Self-Esteem
• Friendship:
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Companionship
Respect
Acceptance
Help
Trust
Loyalty
Mutuality
Reciprocity
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Forming Relationships, Cont.
• Forming relationships (continued)
• Love and intimacy
• Choosing a partner
• Communication
• Self-disclosure
• Listening
• Feedback
• Conflict and conflict resolution
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Clarify the issue
Find out what each person wants
Determine how you both can get what you want.
Decide how to negotiate
Solidify the agreements
Review and renegotiate
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Forming Relationships, Cont.
• Marriage
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Realistic expectations
Feel good about your partner’s personality
Good communication
Effective ways of resolving conflicts
Agree on religious/ethical values
Egalitarian roles
• Successful Families
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Forming Relationships, Cont.
• Intimate relationships satisfy many human needs,
including the need for approval and affirmation
• This can be accomplished by having and
developing the following:
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Self-concept and self-esteem
Friendships
Love and intimacy
Choosing the right partner
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Communication
• The key to developing and maintaining any
type of intimate relationship is good
communication
• The following are necessary for promoting
these areas:
• Communication skill development
• Conflict and conflict resolution techniques
See the box “Guidelines for Effective Communication”
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Marriage
• The primary functions and benefits of marriage
are those of any intimate adult relationship
• This also provides a setting to provide for
provisions toward the future
• However, the concept of “love” is not enough to
make a successful marriage
• Coping properly with the challenges of marriage
requires the commitment of both people through
the inevitable ups and downs of a relationship
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Successful Families
Researchers have proposed six major qualities or themes
that appear in strong families
1. Commitment
2. Appreciation
3. Communication
4. Time together
5. Spiritual wellness
6. Coping with stress
and crisis
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Life-Enhancing Measures of Aging
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Challenge your mind
Plan for social changes
Develop physical fitness
Eat wisely
Maintain a healthy body
composition
• Control drinking and
overdependence on
medications
• Don’t smoke
• Recognize and reduce
stress
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Using the Health Care System Intelligently
• In order to take responsibility for your
own health care, the following actions
need to be addressed:
• How to manage your medical problems
• Know when to see a physician
• Self-treatment options
• Over-the-counter medications (OTC)
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How to Get the Most out of
Medical Care
• Communicate effectively with your physician
• Written list of questions
• Understand “follow up” concept
• Strategies for good communication:
• Before the visit
• During the visit
• At the end of the visit
• Getting appropriate screening tests
• Understand how to select healthcare plans and costs involved
• Use complementary and alternative medicine
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM)
• CAMs are therapies or practices that are not part of
conventional or “mainstream” health care and
medical practice
• Most people use CAM therapies in addition to
conventional medical treatment
• Before selecting this option, consider the following:
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Safety
Effectiveness
Timing
Cost
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Environmental Health
• Environmental health focuses on long-standing concerns
between the environment and the health consequences
that occur between these interactions
• Today, there is a growing concern for the following:
• Population growth
• Pollution:
• Greenhouse effect and global warning
• Thinning of the ozone layer
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Environmental Health: What Can You Do?
• Individual action
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Conserve gas and electricity
Conserve water
Recycle and buy recycled products
Dispose of hazardous wastes safely
• Community action
• Political action
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Fit and Well for Life
• Adopt a wellness lifestyle
• Behavior change basics:
• Choose one behavior
• Maintain motivation and
commitment
• Five-step program
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Monitor
Analyze
Set goals
Develop a plan
Make a personal contract
• Utilize and do the
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Rewards
Support from others
Forgive lapses
Expect to succeed
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Chapter Fifteen
WELLNESS FOR LIFE
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