Each semester I teach a course titled “Personal Health and Wellness.” Twenty …
Each semester I teach a course titled “Personal Health and Wellness.” Twenty to thirty students consistently register for the course and they are required to study content within several health and wellness topics such as psychological health, physical fitness, nutrition, drug abuse, tobacco use, heart disease, infectious disease, and sexual health. The course objectives are consistent with the Montana Health Education Standards, including objective 6: to demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance their health.
In an effort to address objective 6 of the Montana Health Education standards and teach in a culturally responsive way, I recently integrated a series of goal –setting activities into my Personal Health and Wellness course. The goal of this novel integration was to teach students how to effectively use goal-setting to improve an aspect of their life. Consistent with goal theory, I expected that if they experienced success with a thoughtful and appropriate goal, students would have improved levels of hope and self-efficacy.
This second lesson enables students to apply what they know about human …
This second lesson enables students to apply what they know about human reproduction via PIV sex (Lesson 1 of this series) to other means of reproduction. They will not only learn the steps in how insemination and IVF work to create a pregnancy, but they will also learn that people other than parents can provide the genetic material (eggs, sperm, and embryos) and give birth to a child for someone else (surrogates). Students will be working in small groups to help one another understand the concepts and to practice using the inclusive language that the educator modeled in the first lesson.
Who keeps telling smokers they can’t quit without help? For decades there …
Who keeps telling smokers they can’t quit without help? For decades there have been far more ex-smokers than smokers, and an estimated 75% of smokers quit without drugs or professional help. But smoking cessation is a global phenomenon serviced by multibillion-dollar industries, including the pharmaceutical and e-cigarette sectors and health professionals. These industries try to denigrate unassisted cessation and promote their products and services – “weapons of mass distraction” – as essential to successful quitting. This contributes to the medicalisation of a process that, before these products were available, had a natural history where drugs and expertise were absent, yet millions of people around the world still quit.
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