Life Orientation T1 + T2

• Uniqueness


  What makes a person special / different to someone else
• Self awareness


  Interests you have, who you are, strengths & weaknesses
• Interests


  Attracts attention → want to learn be more involved
• Strengths


  Things you do naturally well in
• Weaknesses


  Qualities limiting you from being effective
• Self esteem


  How you feel about yourself
• Self-awareness

  • Know yourself
  • Interests
  • Likes & dislikes
  • Skills
  • Strengths & weaknesses
  • Goals, wishes & hopes
  • Values & beliefs
• Self-awareness


  • Believe in yourself, respect and value yourself, be confident
• Self-esteem

  • How much you like / feel about yourself
  • How successful you think you are
  • How much you value / believe in yourself
  • How confident you are

  
• Self-esteem


  • Sarah has high self esteem: likes, accepts, believes in herself, usually feels confident, works hard on improving her weaknesses
• Personal development areas


  • Social
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional
  • Mental
  • Physical
• Self-development


  • How you improve yourself
  • Build on strengths
  • Improve weaknesses
  • Develop life skills
  • Become best person you can be
• Self-development


  • Sarah improve on time management, keeps diary, plans each day, doesn't waste time, if something needs to be done tries do immediately
• Influences of self-awareness / esteem


  • What others say about you
  • What happens in your life
  • How you cope with difficult things in your life
  • Response or reaction to success or failure
  • How popular you think you are
  • How much you think your friends like you
  • How family, friends, other important people in your life treat you

  
• Factors affecting self-esteem


  • Parents
  • Friends / Teachers / Coaches
  • Successes
  • Attitude / Affection / Praise
  • Media
  • Appearance
  • Feedback from others

  
• Media affecting self-esteem


  • Newspapers & magazines
  • Television & radio
  • Cellphone messages
  • Internet
  • Social media apps
• Media affecting self-esteem


  • People with "perfect bodies and faces and lastest fashions"
  • Compare ourselves unrealistic images try to look like that but can't

  
• Building self-awareness


  • Keep open mind, try new hobbies, discover new interests
  • Be mindful of your strengths & weaknesses and grow in them
  • Stay focused in the moment, aware of emotional triggers
  • Set boundaries for yourself helping to stick to your values
  • Practice self-discipline
  • Consider how your actions affect others
• Building self-awareness


  • Exercising
  • Shy, struggle starting conversation → grow communication skills
  • Hungry → easily irritated and angry
  • No sex before marriage / no drugs
  • Choose not to eat junk food knowing impact on health
  • Before giving opinion see what could be perceived as
• CHATS


  • Calm and friendly
  • Hold your tongue, listen
  • Ask questions about → interests / talents
  • Talents acknowledgment → qualities make person unique
  • Smile
• Building confidence


  • Communication skills: Express yourself clearly, no misunderstanding
  • Be Assertive: Say clearly & know what you want stating viewpoint, Be polite, respectful, sure of yourself, Stand straight & tall, speak for yourself, say please and thank you
  • Participate community organisations: Volunteer → more help others → better feel yourself, Take part → community events → talk people → have hobbies & interests, Play sport → keeps fit, healthy, Register → vote → suitable age
• Good Decision Making


  • Evaluate about what decision means to you
  • Get information about different options / choices
  • Think about effects / consequences
  • Decide most informed & responsible decision, the best option
  • Act on your decision, do what you decided
• Decisions by husbands


  • Many men make decisions about partners healthcare
  • If women cannot make own decisions about healthcare → expose illness, disease, increasing risk HIV in women
  • Many cultures, men make the decisions regarding the household: Purchases of food, bigger items or equipment → economic power limited, When they can visit family and friends → social isolation
• Power


  Authority over another person or environment life; ability to get things done
• Power relations


  Sharing power between people in a relationship
• Masculinity


  Behaving in a manner typical of men and boys (maleness)
• Femininity


  Behaving in a ways typical for women (femaleness)
• Gender


  Society made roles, behaviours, activities, qualities suitable men & women, gender is learnt, not a biological function
• Stereotype


  Group of people judged based on single quality or characteristic
• Influence of gender inequality


  • Sexual Abuse: inappropriate touch → family, friends, strangers → uncomfortable
  • Teenage Pregnancy: unwanted teen pregnancy → peer pressure
  • STI's: gender inequality may influence it
• Unequal power relations


  Indicate men decide conditions sex occurs
• Sexual Abuse


  • Rape, incest, molestation, violent sexual acts
  • Internet violence → posting private illicit photos of people without consent
• Factors influencing teenage pregnancy


  • Lack of sexual education
  • Poverty
  • Rape
  • Deep desire to feel loved
  • Thinking babies save relationships
  • Forceful pregnancy due to unequal power relations
• Gender norms


  May encourage women be obedient to partners
• Women may not have necessary discussions for sex


  Untreated STI's↑ risk HIV
• Gender inequality


  May influence mental illness; depression + suicide
• Healthy romantic relationship


  • Two individuals encouraging supporting one → best versions of themselves → make sacrifices voluntarily out of love
• Unhealthy power relationship


  • Joker is physically, emotionally, sexually abusive towards Harley
  • Beauty ends up locked up in house not, allowed to leave. It teaches girls to stay in abusive relationships with explosively angry men hoping they change.
• Physical Health


  Physical health of persons body; absence of disease & fitness level
• Mental Health


  Normal emotional, behavioural, social maturity of person; healthy mental well - being one uses to function normally in society during