Author: Catherine Sanderson, Diane Farthing, Mark Zelman, Melanie Lynch, and Melissa Munsell

Essential Health Skills for High School teaches skills-based health education in your classroom. This fourth edition features core health topics such as nutrition, physical activity, and mental health; and cutting-edge health topics, such as COVID-19, vaping, opioid addiction, body positivity and compassion, mindfulness, and online communication and safety. Content and skills align to the National Health Education Standards.

Table of Contents

Abbreviated Contents

Essential Health Skills for High School 4e

• Front Matter
• Unit 1 Promoting a Lifetime of Health and Wellness
• • 1 - Health and Wellness Fundamentals
  • 2 - Health and Wellness Skills
  • 3 - Interpersonal Skills
• Unit 2 Being Mentally and Emotionally Healthy
• • 4 - Promoting Mental and Emotional Health
  • 5 - Shifting to Positive Thinking
  • 6 - Managing the Stress in Your Life
  • 7 - Understanding Mental Illnesses
• Unit 3 Developing a Healthy Lifestyle
• • 8 - Following a Healthy Diet
  • 9 - Having a Healthy Body Image
  • 10 - Engaging in Physical Activity
• Unit 4 Avoiding Hazardous Substances
• • 11 - Vaping and Tobacco
  • 12 - Alcohol
  • 13 - Medications and Drugs
• Unit 5 Establishing Healthy Relationships
• • 14 - Maintaining Healthy Relationships
  • 15 - Violence Prevention and Response
• Unit 6 Protecting Your Health
• • 16 - Personal Safety
  • 17 - Environmental Health
• Unit 7 Understanding Diseases and Disorders
• • 18 - Communicable Diseases
  • 19 - Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
  • 20 - Noncommunicable Diseases
• Unit 8 Human Reproduction and Development
• • 21 - The Beginning of Life
  • 22 - Health Across the Life Span
• Background Lesson 1 The Body Systems
• Background Lesson 2 Personal Hygiene
• Background Lesson 3 Sleep
• Glossary/Glosario
• Index