Health Notes 2024

Mental & Emotional Physical

- Thoughts & Feelings - Fitness
- Ability - Nutrition
- Rational thought processes - Sleeping
- Ability to react to situations calmly - Showering
- Concentration

Spiritual Social
- Beliefs - Relationships
- Faith - could be religion
- Goals
- Morals & values

● Resilience - Your way of bouncing back and trying again

● Each aspect of well being is equally important. They all interlink Eg.

Short Term Long Term

Physical Social
Positive Negative Positive Negative
- More time to recover - Falling behind - Got closer with - Not being with friends
after school in school, dance The ones I have
- No physical school

Mental/Emotional Spiritual
Positive Negative Positive Negative
- Being outside more - Being with family to much - Realizing how much you - Can’t do much
- Spending time with treasure things in life
family

● What change occurred?

His fathers rage, got cancer

● How were the persons 4 dimensions of wellbeing affected:

These 4 dimensions were treated very badly, treated like they didn’t exist

● Physical:

Scars and bruises, he went to hospital his dad broke his elbow. Was raped, malested and groomed for more than
eight months, had cancer in his stomach

● Mental/Emotional:

Felt suicidal, depresed, un loved

● Social:

His aunty and grandad were like his gardens, he felt safe around them. When his dad was beating him he would run
to his grandads house and hide.

● Spiritual:

Blamed himself for everything that happened

● How are these factors inter-connected (PEEL paragraph)

● What negative feelings did this person have:

Suicidal, sad, blamed everything on him,

● What was their personal response to this feeling?

Looked like he wanted to cry, and didn't want to talk about it.

● Identify another person that was affected by this change:

His dad was the one that caused all of his pain and trauma he went through .

● Identify the following strategies that that person used:

Personal:

Thought about the positives that the kids were alive and that they were close to the grandparents.

Interpersonal:

Send the kids to the grandparents house if they felt unsafe or in danger.

Societal:

Tried to seek help from his friends but got laughed at. Hid from his dad when he was going through his rage moment
and went to his grandads,

Soul Surfer
- Bethany
- Bsf Alana
- Bethany and her friend Alana vs each other in a surfing competition & Bethany won
- Can’t go to Mexico because she has stay stay and train for regionals
- Bethany's dad gets surgery on his knee
- Alana, her brother & her dad go surfing with bethany
- Bethany gets attacked by a shark
- Alana and her family take Bethany to the car to meet the ambulance
- Lost 60% of her blood
- They found the shark that bit her
- After her recovery Bethany is in the water again
- Bethany gets a prosthetic arm but didn't like it
- “ I don’t need easy, I need possible”
- Gives away her surfboards
- Bethany goes to Thailand to help out with the destruction from tsunami
- Wants to compete in nationals again
- Bethany competed in nationals and came 5th
Bethanys Well-being

Before the shark attack

Spiritual:
- Her spiritual well being with the ocean
- She felt passionate with her religion
- The goals she set with her surfing
- Went to church

Mental/Emotional:
- She was always confident and proud of where she has come
- Had a healthy mind-set

Physical:
- She pushed herself
- She kept trying and trying until she was happy with what she had accomplished
- She was training and surfing everyday

Social:
- Bsf Alana
- Had a good relationship her family
- Spoke to Sarah Hill about her problems

Straight after the shark attack

Spiritual:
- Went to church to talk to sarah Hills about why this has happened to her
- “Jesus please, please get me to the beach” - Bethany
- “How can this be God’s plan for me? I don’t understand” - Bethany
- “I think? I know I’m going to surf again” - Bethany

Mental/Emotional:
- Depressed
- Thought she couldn’t do anything with only 1 arm
- Having dreams about the shark coming back for her in the ocean
- Didn’t want to do anything
- “Life is an adventure, sometimes you wipe out and land in the impasse zone.” - Bethany/ Bethany’s father
- “Get a new perspective” - Sarah
- “But what scared me most is that I may never be able to surf again” - Bethany

Physical:
- Everything was harder
- Tying her hair up or putting clothes on was a challenge for her
- “The doctor said I can get back out in the water as soon as the stitches come out.” - Bethany
- “I think I’m ok, what am I supposed to do now?” - Bethany
- “I don’t need easy, I just need possible.” - Bethany

Social:

- “She’s a living miracle” - Doctor

- “I wouldn’t change what happened to me because I wouldn’t have had this chance” - Bethany
A year after the shark attack

Spiritual:
- “I got my strength from Jesus Crist” - Bethany
- “I wouldn’t change what happened to me because I wouldn’t have had this chance” - Bethany
- She still believed in herself

Mental/Emotional

- “Life is an adventure, sometimes you wipe out and land in the impasse zone.” - Bethany/ Bethany’s father
- “Get a new perspective” - Sarah
- “That's a small step in a good direction.” - Bethany’s mother

Physical:

- “I don’t need easy, I just need possible.” - Bethany

- Everything got easier after w while as she got used to having only 1 arm

Social:

- “She’s a living miracle” - Doctor

- “I wouldn’t change what happened to me because I wouldn’t have had this chance” - Bethany

Communication

● Passive 5%
● Passive/Aggressive 3% Assertiveness model
● Assertive
● Aggressive 2%

D Describe the situation

E Express your feelings using “I statements”
S State what you want to happen
C Consequences

Make up real scenarios x5

- Pressure to sneak out

Scenario: Being pressured to drink

Describe the situation:

You're at a bar, drinking with a friend and you feel sick. You want to go home but your friend wants to
stay and drink more with you.
Express your feelings using “I statements”
- Annoyed
- Pressured
- Angry

State what you want to happen:

I would like for you to stop drinking and pressuring me to stay here and listen to me and come home.

Consequencenses:
- I listen to my friend and I keep drinking and now I feel even worse now that I've stayed here.
- We both end up really drunk and don’t get home safely

Scenario: Pressured to steal

Describe the situation: Me and Mary are at the mall and we both really like this facial cream that is at MECCA
but it's very very expensive and we don’t have the money to buy it. Mary wants me to steal it, “You came here
with me so you have to do it!”

Express your feelings:

- Angry
- Pressured
- WHAT THE HELL
- Scared

State what you want to happen:

I would like for her to stop telling me to steal, and we should both leave that isle or store.

Consequences:
- We could get caught
- We accidentally drop it and break it
- If its more that $500 we could go to jail

Pressure to vape

Describe the situation:

Mary is in the left corner of the classroom, I'm sitting next to her and she suddenly pulls out a vape from her
pocket. She asks me if I have vaped I say no and she is now forcing me to try it because it is so good and that I
won’t regret it.

Express you feelings:

- Scared
- Fearful
- Pressured
State what you want to happen:
I would like for her to stop telling me to vape and to get on with her work, so that we both don’t get caught

Consequences:
- We both get caught
- I get in trouble too because I was next to her and watching her do it
- Somebody tells on us

Pressured to sneak out

Describe the situation:

Mary wants to go out to a party late at night but our parents have already said no, so Mary has said I HAVE TO
sneak out with her.

Express your feelings:

- Annoyed
- Pressured
- Worried

State what you want to happen:

I want to not go out and for Mary to either leave and go home or go without me.
How did the kayak trip affect your wellbeing?

Spiritual Mental/Emotional
- Having a sense of belonging with where we - The concentration of alert in the fresh air
live - Feeling calm and open with nature
- The goal of kayaking for 1 hour and 40 - Taking a break from school, phones
minutes and achieving it

Physical Social
- The adventure paddling through the wind - Speaking to and meeting different people
- The cold refreshing feeling of the clear ocean - Sharing our stuff
water - Motivating each other
- Listening carefully to the different birds - Having fun as a class and getting along with
- Observing the difference species of each other
plants/trees - Getting outside our comfort zone
- Increasing muscle strength
- Getting a bit to much Vit D

Kayaking trip reflection essay

Thursday the 14th of March, on a cold but clear morning the L1 Health class at Mahurangi College
kayaked from Puhoi to Wenderholm and finished with a soothing and refreshing swim in the ocean

What would be covered Your own writing

Wellbeing and hauora are a
combination of 4 aspects (XXXX)
A good combination will make you feel…
Missing one of them will…
Making sure that you get all of these
aspects is part of your responsibility as
a human being and there are things you
can do to make sure that your wellbeing
is provided for.
This trip was one of them because it
provided support in all of the aspects.
Wellbeing and hauora are a combination of 4 aspects including spiritual,
physical, mental/emotional and social. A good combination will make you
feel like a healthy human being. If these aspects are not under control
you will not being living in a fully healthy human being way. Making sure
that we get all of these aspects is part of our responsibility as human
beings and there are things we can do to make sure that our wellbeing is
being kept as positive as possible. I believe this trip was a great way to
meet new people, test ourselves and in general have a great time.

Physical wellbeing (taha tinana) is Physical wellbeing (taha tinana) is our physical body, its growth,
XXXXXXX Taha tinana - Physical development, and ability to move, and ways of caring for it. On this
well-being trip,
the physical body, its growth,
development, and ability to move, and
ways of caring for it
- The adventure paddling
through the wind
- The cold refreshing feeling of
the clear ocean water
- Listening carefully to the
different birds
- Observing the difference
species of plants/trees
- Increasing muscle strength
 - Getting a bit to much Vit D

Taha hinengaro - Mental and Taha hinengaro - Mental and emotional well-being
emotional well-being coherent thinking processes, acknowledging and expressing thoughts
coherent thinking processes, and feelings and responding constructively
acknowledging and expressing
thoughts and feelings and responding
constructively
- The concentration of alert in
the fresh air
- Feeling calm and open with
nature
- Taking a break from school,
phones

Taha whanau - Social well-being

family relationships, friendships, and
other interpersonal relationships;
feelings of belonging, compassion,
and caring; and social support
- Speaking to and meeting
different people
- Sharing our stuff
- Motivating each other
- Having fun as a class and
getting along with each other
- Getting outside our comfort
zone

Taha wairua - Spiritual well-being

the values and beliefs that determine
the way people live, the search for
meaning and purpose in life, and
personal identity and self-awareness
(For some individuals and
communities, spiritual well- being is
linked to a particular religion; for
others, it is not.)
- Having a sense of belonging
with where we live
- The goal of kayaking for 1 hour
and 40 minutes and achieving
it