Year 8

Personal Best Program

2015
Part B

WORK BOOKLET

NAME: _______________________________________________

DEAR GROUP: _________________________________________

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 Relationships
Session One- Relationships
Go to http://au.professionals.reachout.com/relationships

1. Read the paragraph on Relationships. In the space below, write down the different
impact which stable relationships and difficult relationships can have on our lives.

Impact of Stable Relationships Impact of Difficult Relationships

2. In the space below, write one paragraph about a stable relationship you have
experienced and another paragraph about a difficult relationship you have
experienced. How did these relationships affect you?

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Session Two – Signs of a Troubled Relationship
Go to http://au.professionals.reachout.com/relationships

1. Read the paragraph on Signs of a Troubled Relationship. In the space below, write
down the signs of a troubled relationship:

2. Think about your own personal relationships. Complete the diagram below in which
outline the signs of a troubled relationship from your own life experience:

Signs of a
Troubled
Relationship

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Session Three – Relationship Difficulties

Go to http://au.professionals.reachout.com/relationships

1. Read the information relating to Relationship difficulties, Family, Friends, Partners /

special relationships.

2. Write down what you can do if you or a friend is in a difficult relationship.

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Session Four – How To make Friends

Go to http://au.reachout.com/how-to-make-friends

1. Read the information regarding How to make friends, Friend ready, Places to Go,
Learn some skills and It’s bigger than this.

2. Create a Guide to Making Friends in High School for the Year 6 students at
Canterbury Public School. In the spaces below, write down strategies for making
friends.

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Session Five – Listening skills

Go to http://au.reachout.com/listening-skills-worth-having

1. Read the information on How to be an expert listener.

2. Summarise the strategies for being an effective listener below.

Strategies
for being an
effective
listener

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Session Six – Styles of Communication

Go to http://au.reachout.com/tips-for-communicating

1. Read Tips for communicating.

2. Read Styles of communication.

3. Complete the following table in which you explain the differences between
Aggressive, Passive and Assertive communication.

Aggressive

Passive

Assertive

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Session Seven – Family conflict with parents

Go to http://au.reachout.com/family-conflict-with-parents

4. Read Family conflict with parents.

Diary Writing: A friend of yours was involved in a conflict with her parents. Her
situation improved significantly after she implemented the advice you gave her on
how to resolve the conflict.

Write a diary entry below in which you recount the advice you gave your friend and
how this helped her. Use some of the information from Family conflict with parents
in your diary entry. You are free to make up the information regarding the conflict
itself.

Dear Diary,
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I recently gave my friend some advice which helped her to resolve a conflict she was
having with her parents.

The conflict between my friend and her parents had to do with…

The advice I gave my friend was to…

As a result of my friend implementing this advice….

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Session Eight – How to build self-confidence

Go to http://au.reachout.com/how-to-build-self-confidence

Read How to build self-confidence

Complete the following graphic organiser in which you apply strategies for building self-
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Session Nine – What is self-talk?

Go to http://au.reachout.com/what-is-self-talk

Read What is self-talk?

Summarise the 3 keys to developing better self-talk

Listen to what you’re saying Monitor your self-talk Change your self-talk
to yourself

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Session Ten – Why do people get angry?

Go to http://au.reachout.com/why-do-people-get-angry

Read Why do people get angry?

1. List the reasons why people can become angry.

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2. Identify things you can do to handle someone else’s anger:

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Session Eleven - Building better coping skills

Go to http://au.reachout.com/building-better-coping-skills

Read Building better coping skills.

Writing task: You have been asked to give a speech to a regional SRC in which you provide
teenagers with skills for coping with difficult situations.
Write your speech below in which you highlight at least 5 coping skills teenagers can use.

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Session Twelve – Ways to relax

Go to http://au.reachout.com/ways-to-relax

Read Ways to relax.

Complete the following graphic organiser in which you list relaxation strategies.

Session Thirteen – Relaxation training

Go to http://au.reachout.com/relaxation-training

Read Relaxation training.

Practise the relaxation techniques using the procedure contained in How to Do It.

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Session Fourteen – Problem solving

Go to http://au.reachout.com/all-about-problem-solving

Read All about problem solving

Think about a problem. This can be real or one you make up.

Apply the How to problem solve procedure to your problem in order to resolve it.

Write your responses in the scaffold below.

Steps for solving a problem Applied to your problem

Step 1. Define the problem.

Step 2. Work out goals for each problem.

Step 3. Brainstorm lots of possible

solutions.
Step 4: Rule out any obvious poor
options.
Step 5. Examine the consequences of
different options. 
Step 6. Identify your best options.

Step 7. Put your solutions into practice.

Step 8. How did it go?

Session Fifteen – What is mindfulness

Go to http://au.reachout.com/what-is-mindfulness

Read What is mindfulness.

Read How to be more mindful. http://au.reachout.com/how-to-be-more-mindful

Explore the Smiling Mind site http://smilingmind.com.au/

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Session Sixteen – Evaluation

Think about the 16 activities you undertook as part of the Personal Best Program Part B.

1. What aspects of this course did you find interesting or worthwhile?

2. What aspects of this course did you not enjoy or not find interesting?

3. What suggestions can you make as to how to make this program more relevant and /
or interesting for Year 8 students?

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