Personal Growth: Pregnancy, Parenting, Emotional Health

• Personal growth and development involves lifelong physical, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes.
• It encompasses understanding the body, hormonal changes, and their impact on sexuality.
• It studies the human condition and how interactions affect physical, mental, social, and emotional growth from infancy to old age.

Pregnancy and Parenting

• These are life stages that impacts all aspects of wellness.
• Pregnancy and parenting bring emotional, financial, physical, mental, and social changes.
• It can bring happy experiences but also great challenges.
• Parenting requires knowledge, skills, and practice.
• Medical and financial challenges can make this stage more difficult.
• Preparation is important for a healthy pregnancy, delivery, and transition to parenting.

Emotional Health

• Includes views, feelings, and expressions about oneself.
• It affects how one handles stress and makes choices related to others.
• Emotionally healthy people develop appropriate coping mechanisms to resolve issues and achieve positive outcomes.
• Strategies include mental health management, positive responses, resource connection, confident communication, and support system recognition.

Social and Sexual Health

• It focuses on the ability to communicate and interact with others effectively and respectfully.
• It involves forming meaningful relationships and interacting in healthy, appropriate ways.
• It shows respect and acceptance of individual differences like race, religion, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomic background, and health-related decisions.
• Social and sexual health is enhanced by connections with others, adaptability in social and sexual situations, support from individuals and institutions, and a sense of belonging.

Community Health Services and Support

• They provide resources and assistance for disease and injury prevention and to improve the quality of services provided.
• They promote public health, health equity, healthy lifestyles, and reduce health disparities.
• This can include appropriate cultural and linguistic services, medical/dental care, nursing, shelter, hunger relief, and allied health services.
• These services may be provided at home, in residential settings, or at community healthcare facilities.

Movement Skills and Concepts

• It includes learning the fundamentals of movement across various terrains and understanding biomechanics.
• Movement skills are categorized as locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative.
• Concepts include spatial awareness, body awareness, and qualities of movement.

Physical Fitness

• The ability to move, perform daily tasks, and handle unexpected physical challenges without excessive fatigue.
• Fitness activities can be done at low, moderate, and high levels, affecting body function.

Lifelong Fitness

• Making fitness a part of one’s daily life.
• Establishing fitness habits to maintain health throughout life.
• It recognizes the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle.
• Benefits include reduced diseases, injuries, and pain.
• It focuses on self-evaluation, goal setting, social engagement, sportsmanship, and enjoyment of movement rather than competition.

Nutrition

• Intake of food in relation to the body’s nutritional needs.
• A balanced nutrition plan with regular activity is key to physical wellness.
• It involves developing good eating habits, choosing healthy foods, and understanding the effects of portion size, sugars, and fats.
• Balancing food intake with exercise, considering age, lifestyle, and heredity, is important.

Personal Safety

• Involves awareness of surroundings and understanding how situations/behaviors can lead to harm.
• Identifying potential risks and knowing steps to prevent injuries and diseases.
• It includes knowing how to seek help in uncomfortable/unsafe situations without self-blame.

Health Conditions, Diseases, and Medicines

• Health conditions include acute or chronic illnesses and diseases, either controllable or life-threatening.
• Diseases can be communicable, vector-borne, or zoonotic.
• Early detection, screenings, treatment, and vaccines help prevent illnesses and outbreaks.
• Medicines treat or relieve diseases and pain and can be prescribed or accessed over the counter.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

• These substances can be found in various forms and have short-term and long-term effects.
• They include legal and illicit substances, as well as over-the-counter and prescription medications.
• Tobacco products such as cigarettes and e-cigarettes can cause physical and mental damage.
• The use of these products can negatively affect the user, family, and community.

Dependency, Substance Use Disorder, and Treatment

• Dependency is developing a tolerance and increased need for a substance, with physical and psychological aspects.
• Substance use disorder is when casual substance use escalates.
• Treatment includes programs and facilities for assistance and recovery.
• Individuals in need can seek help from school and community resources.