Health 6.9

Influencing factors. The student recognizes how relationships influence individual health behaviors including skills necessary for building and maintaining relationships. The student is expected to:

(A) differentiate between positive and negative relationships that can affect individual health such as clubs, gangs, or families;

(B) examine social influences on drug-taking behaviors;

(C) explain ways of maintaining healthy relationships such as resisting peer pressure to engage in unsafe behavior;

(D) practice conflict resolution/mediation skills;

(E) describe strategies such as abstinence for communicating refusal to engage in unsafe behaviors; and

(F) describe methods for communicating important issues with parents and peers.