Unit 1
Personal and social well-being
Learning aims After completing this unit, you must be able to do the following: ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Understand and respect changes in your body.
Identify the influence of the media and the community on your body image.
Accept yourself for who you are.
Identify your own abilities, interests and potential.
Create opportunities to make the most of your own abilities, interests and potential.
Identify and cope with peer pressure.
Apply problem-solving skills in conflict situations.
Important terminology Abilities: Features you have that enable you to fulfil certain tasks; something you can do well, e.g. a skill or a talent.
Body image: How you see your body.
Interests: Things in which you are interested and in which you like to participate or which
you like doing.
Peer pressure: When a group puts pressure on an individual/group to participate in a
particular action, irrespective of whether it is right or wrong.
Potential: A quality that helps you achieve a certain objective or to do best in the things in
which you excel.
Problem-solving: Certain actions carried out to resolve problems. Self-image: What you think of yourself as a person.
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