Unit 1: Personal and social well-being

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.