INSTRUCTOR RESOURCE AND SUPPORT MANUAL
Health: The Basics FOURTEENTH EDITION
Rebecca J. Donatelle
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
Health: Getting There—Staying There!
CHAPTER 1A
Focus On: Difference, Disparity, and Health: Achieving Health Equity16
CHAPTER 2
Promoting and Preserving Your Psychological Health
23
CHAPTER 2A
Focus On: Cultivating Mindfulness and Spiritual Well-Being
35
CHAPTER 3
Managing Stress and Coping with Life’s Challenges
41
CHAPTER 4
Improving Your Sleep
54
CHAPTER 5
Preventing Violence and Injury
63
CHAPTER 6
Connecting and Communicating in the Modern World
78
CHAPTER 6A
Focus On: Understanding Your Sexuality
89
CHAPTER 7
Considering Your Reproductive Choices
99
CHAPTER 8
Recognizing and Avoiding Addiction and Drug Abuse
118
CHAPTER 9
Drinking Alcohol Responsibly and Ending Tobacco Use
135
CHAPTER 10
Nutrition: Eating for a Healthier You
153
CHAPTER 11
Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight
167
CHAPTER 11A
Focus On: Enhancing Your Body Image
179
CHAPTER 12
Improving Your Personal Fitness
187
CHAPTER 13
Reducing Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer
201
CHAPTER 13A
Focus On: Minimizing Your Risk for Diabetes
222
CHAPTER 14
Protecting against Infectious Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections
1
229
CHAPTER 14A
Focus On: Reducing Risks for Chronic Diseases and Conditions
247
CHAPTER 15
Making Smart Health Care Choices
257
CHAPTER 15A
Focus On: Understanding Complementary and Integrative Health
267
CHAPTER 15B
Focus On: Aging, Death, and Dying
274
CHAPTER 16
Promoting Environmental Health
284
Preface
How to Use This Manual Preparing for a course can often be the most daunting part of teaching it! The Instructor Resource and Support Manual to accompany the fourteenth edition of Health: The Basics was designed to aid personal health and wellness instructors to prepare lectures, activities, and syllabi. It is especially helpful for teachers who are preparing and creating their personal health and wellness lecture materials for the first time. Each section of the manual offers advice and instruction on how to: • organize the content throughout the course, • prepare clear and informative materials in the least amount of time, and • provide the best interactive learning experience for your students. The chapter outlines in Part 1 will help you easily incorporate key terms, discussion questions, critical thinking questions, student activities, PowerPoint lecture slides, ABC News video clips, and images and tables from the text. Chapter outlines are broken into the following parts to allow for easy accessibility and quick reference to all the available student and instructor resources.
Overview The overview provides background information pertinent to a topic in the chapter or suggestions for what to pay particular attention to during the course of instruction of the chapter.
Learning Outcomes The learning outcomes list the key concepts students should understand as they reach the conclusion of each chapter. These outcomes can be helpful in organizing lesson plans or lectures and come directly from the main text.
Lecture Outline The outlines for each chapter are helpful in formulating and structuring lectures.
Discussion Questions The discussion questions are presented to help students understand the material conceptually. The questions integrate the information presented in the text with real life to facilitate better understanding.
Critical Thinking Questions These questions are meant to help students apply the information in each chapter directly to their everyday lives. They are intended to help students consider how to make reasoned, healthy decisions for their immediate futures and prompt them to consider the long-term consequences of their choices.
Student Activities Activities in and outside of the classroom help students apply their new knowledge. The different levels of activities (individual, community, and diverse population/nontraditional) help students understand the comprehensive aspects of health.
Additional References Additional references can be used as resources for expanding the information in the text. These current references are from various journals and can be useful for synthesis activities.
For Further Information There are many organizations that provide free or low-cost information that can help make lectures more interesting. Website addresses are provided for information requests. Many organizations have local chapters that can be great resources for guest speakers.
Additional Media Videos can enhance lectures and be used to promote discussion. Each suggested video should be previewed before use in class to make sure it is appropriate for specific audiences. General best practices for teaching are covered in Teaching Tips in Part 2, and the sample syllabi and course outline in Part 3 will show you examples of how to organize your lectures given inevitable time constraints. The tips in Getting Started with MasteringHealth are a valuable resource for any instructors with online components to their course, and can be found in Part 4. We’ve also included the full set of our popular Great Ideas in Teaching Health and Wellness newsletters in Part 5, which have helped many professors add fun interactive activities to their classrooms.
Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules (RTGs) A personal health instructor’s resource guide to accompany Health: The Basics and My Health. These modules are designed to create a blueprint for using the Mastering Health online system and all of the ancillary tools that accompany the content. The goal of these modules is to provide an organized method of implementing Mastering Health assets along with in-class activities including Learning Catalytics questions and lecture presentations into your personal health class.
Each module is divided into segments: