Managing Sexually-

Related Issues
Objective

1. discuss some necessary skills and factors to be better

manage sexually-related issues

2. apply decision making skills in managing sexuality-related

issues
 Activity

How will you manage yourself?

Situation 1:

You were invited by your friend to watch a movie in their house

over the weekend. You gracefully accepted it with permission of
your parents. While watching an inspiring film, your friend
suggested instead to watch a pornographic film. What should
you do? What is your basis for you decision? Explain.
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Manage
– to handle or direct with a degree of skill (Merriam Webster)

– to take charge or care of (collinsdictionary.com)

– to succeed despite difficulties or to control, influence or to

take charge (yourdictionary.com)
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How ?
1. Making Responsible Decisions
2. Access to Education and Services
3. Networking with Support Groups
4. Alternative Are Necessary
5. Goal Setting
6. Evaluating Plans and Actions
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1. Making Responsible Decisions

 A decision is a choice you make or act upon.

 A good decision is a decision in which you have carefully

considered the outcome of each choice.

 Decision-making skills will help you make decisions based on

your needs and desires and must be practiced and exercised
in resolving issues and concerns about sexuality.
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1. Making Responsible Decisions

– relationships
– abstaining or participation in sex
– protecting ourselves from factors
sexually-transmitted disease
– pregnancy for females
– it can have implications overall health
outcomes
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1. Making Responsible Decisions

STEPS:
1. Determine the problem
2. Explore the alternatives
3. Consider the consequences
4. Identify your values
5. Decide
6. Evaluate
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2. Access to Education and Services

– access to sexuality and reproductive information and youth-
centered services (rights)

– understanding the concept of

decision-making and social
influences provide significant
insight for effective interventions
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3. Networking with Support Group

– parents, peers, the media, and host of other factors influence
decisions and subsequent health outcomes
– the family plays a very significant
role in the decision –making of
the youths (communication)
– be aware that disclosure of personal
information may put you at risk of harm
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4. Alternatives Are Necessary

choices consequences

best choice is the one that

makes life beautiful

sexual activities
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5. Goal Setting

SMART
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6. Evaluating Plans and Actions

– for further development of your

decision-making and
management skills on sexuality-
related issues

– adolescents must be equipped with coping skills to help them

make wise decisions for themselves
 Activity

Use the steps in decision-making:

Situation 1:

One of your closest friends tells his/her problem and asks for
your support. He got his girlfriend pregnant / she got pregnant.
How can you show your support and stand firm with the morals
that having children should be the choice of matured individuals
under the blessing of marriage?
 Activity

Use the steps in decision-making:

Situation 2:

Your classmates are going to a party this weekend, this is the

first time that you are asked to attend by a friend but then you
discern that your parents will not approve it. You don’t want to
make your friends angry by not going, but you also don’t want
to get in trouble with your parents. Determine what decision you
should make.
“It is not what you do to your children, but what you have
taught them to do for themselves that will make them
successful human beings”.
- Ann Landers
Thank you for
listening!!!
References:

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