Rationale
Effective communication enhances personal, family, and community health. This standard focuses on how responsible individuals use verbal and non-verbal skills to develop and maintain healthy personal relationships. The ability to organize and to convey information and feelings is the basis for strengthening interpersonal interactions and reducing or avoiding conflict.
Performance Indicators
Utilize skills for communicating effectively with family, peers, and others to enhance health.
Demonstrate refusal, negotiation, and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.
Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.