Associate Level Material

Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet

Part 1

For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions.

Physical health: Physical health relates to our bodies, like exercise and diet.

Social health: Social health relates to how we are capable of relating to other people, like being capable of making a bond with another human being.

Intellectual health: Intellectual health relates to being able to make intelligent decisions, learn from mistakes made, or being able to solve problems with critical thinking.

Environmental health: Environmental health, in my opinion, relates not only to our external environment, but how we appreciate, and maintain our internal environment as well. But to provide an example of our external environment, I will point out the efforts many cities have made to prohibit smoking outdoors, or in restaurants.

Emotional health: Emotional health relates to how we handle ourselves in situations, for example knowing how to control your temper with someone who is purposely trying to make you angry. Another example would be the trust that is shared between people in the military when they are deployed.

Spiritual health: Spiritual health relates to one’s beliefs in something beyond just that one person, like deity, or a philosophy which helps guide that person to a better way of life morally, or to help provide answers, and comfort to things in which we do not know through faith. An example of this would be prayer, or meditation to achieve a higher state of awareness of oneself, or to feel comforted by the thought that something may help you through the act of prayer.

Part 2