Personal, social and community health

Personal identity and change

Factors that shape personal identities and adolescent health behaviours

WA9HEHPP1

Strategies for managing changes and transitions

WA9HEHPP2

Staying safe

Skills to determine the appropriateness and reliability of online health information

WA9HEHPS1

Skills to deal with challenging or unsafe situations:

  • refusal skills
  • initiating contingency plans
  • acting assertively

WA9HEHPS2

Actions and strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in a range of environments

WA9HEHPS3

For example:

  • the use of complementary health practices to support and promote good health
  • responding to emergency situations to administer first aid, such as Danger, Response, Send, Airway, Breathing, Compression, Defibrillation (DRSABCD)
  • identifying and managing unsafe situations
  • safe blood practices

Strategies are examined, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs that can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships

WA9HEHPS4

For example:

  • describing strategies that enhance the safety and wellbeing of sexual partners, such as communicating feelings of each party, respecting boundaries and choices, gaining affirmative consent, assertive communication and respecting individuals’ rights
  • investigating the Western Australian legal requirements in relation to seeking, giving, refusing and accepting the refusal of consent, and considering how these laws relate to relationships with friends, colleagues, strangers and intimate partners, in both online and offline interactions
Healthy and active communities

Impact of external influences on the ability of adolescents to make safe and informed choices relating to:

  • sexual health behaviours
  • alcohol, drugs or other harmful substance use
  • risk-taking

WA9HEHPH1

Implications of attitudes and behaviours on individuals and the community

WA9HEHPH2

For example:

  • prejudice
  • marginalisation
  • homophobia
  • discrimination
Interacting with others

Characteristics of respectful relationships and how these can prevent violence and abuse

WA9HEHPI1

For example:

  • respecting the rights and responsibilities of individuals in the relationship
  • communication
  • respecting gender equality
  • respecting personal differences and opinions
  • empathy

Managing emotional responses and resolving conflict in family or social situations

WA9HEHPI2

For example:

  • coping with rejection
  • negotiation skills
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