Comprehensive Health Skills for High School, 5th Edition
By: Catherine Sanderson, Mark Zelman, Diane Farthing, Melanie Lynch, and Melissa MunsellCopyright: 2025
Subject: Health: High School
Grade Level: 9-12
- Comprehensive Health Skills for High School provides the skills and information students need to make responsible decisions and promote a lifetime of health and wellness. This fifth edition features cutting-edge, contemporary health topics, such as vaping, opioids, social media, mindfulness, empathy and resilience, online communication, health disparities, and COVID-19. Factual, objective information about human sexuality is included in the text. Content and skills align to the National Health Education Standards and the National Sex Education Standards.
- Each module contains skills-based activities that align to each health skill area in the National Health Education Standards. These activities were created by award-winning health instructors. Each health and wellness topic focuses on the skills students can use to make healthy decisions and promote health.
- Up-to-date terminology and new topics make Comprehensive Health Skills for High School the most current text available. Extensive supplements include customizable lesson plans, skills-based activities, parent/other trusted adult engagement assignments in English and Spanish, performance assessments for differentiation with rubrics, workbook activities in English and Spanish, videos, audio summaries, and content updates. All handouts are editable Word DOCX files that provide greater flexibility in their use.
- High-interest special features encourage deeper thinking about health topics. Features such as Health in the Media connect concepts to experiences with media, including social media. Local and Global Health features help students analyze social determinants of health and apply skills in their own communities and globally. Skills for Health and Wellness features demonstrate how health skills can be used in real-life situations.
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- Table of Contents
- Module 1: Health Fundamentals and SkillsLesson 1.1: What Are Health and Wellness?
Lesson 1.2: Individual Factors Affecting Health and Wellness
Lesson 1.3: Environmental Factors Affecting Health and Wellness
Lesson 1.4: Making Decisions and Setting Goals
Lesson 1.5: Using Health Information
Lesson 1.6: Accessing Health Services
Lesson 1.7: Advocating for Community and Public Health
Lesson 1.8: Communicating Effectively
Lesson 1.9: Resolving Conflicts
Lesson 1.10: Resisting PressureModule 2: Building Mental and Emotional HealthLesson 2.1: Mental and Emotional Health and Well-Being
Lesson 2.2: Embracing Your Identity
Lesson 2.3: Building Your Self-Esteem
Lesson 2.4: Improving Your Body Image
Lesson 2.5: Expressing Your Emotions
Lesson 2.6: Establishing a Positive Mind-Set
Lesson 2.7: Developing Empathy and ResilienceModule 3: Stress, Mental Health Conditions, and Coping StrategiesLesson 3.1: Understanding Stress and Other Adverse Events
Lesson 3.2: Coping Strategies for Stress and Other Events
Lesson 3.3: What Are Mental Illnesses?
Lesson 3.4: Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders
Lesson 3.5: Getting Help for Mental Illnesses
Lesson 3.6: Preventing Suicide and Coping with GriefModule 4: Food, Nutrition, and Physical ActivityLesson 4.1: What Is Nutrition?
Lesson 4.2: Having a Healthy Eating Pattern
Lesson 4.3: Choosing and Preparing Healthy Foods
Lesson 4.4: Understanding Physical Activity and Fitness
Lesson 4.5: Getting Enough Physical ActivityModule 5: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other DrugsLesson 5.1: Safe Medication Use
Lesson 5.2: Medication Misuse and Abuse
Lesson 5.3: Health Effects of Vaping and Tobacco
Lesson 5.4: Health Effects of Alcohol
Lesson 5.5: Other Drug Misuse
Lesson 5.6: Preventing and Treating Substance Use, Misuse, and AbuseModule 6: SafetyLesson 6.1: Preventing Accidents and Injuries
Lesson 6.2: Performing First Aid
Lesson 6.3: Handling Dangerous Situations
Lesson 6.4: Being Safe on the Internet
Lesson 6.5: Understanding the Environment
Lesson 6.6: Protecting Your EnvironmentModule 7: Personal Health and WellnessLesson 7.1: Personal Hygiene
Lesson 7.2: Sleep
Lesson 7.3: What Causes Diseases?
Lesson 7.4: Recognizing Communicable Diseases
Lesson 7.5: Preventing and Treating Communicable Diseases
Lesson 7.6: Cardiovascular Diseases
Lesson 7.7: Cancer
Lesson 7.8: Other Noncommunicable DiseasesModule 8: Social HealthLesson 8.1: Qualities of a Healthy Relationship
Lesson 8.2: Supporting Family and Community Relationships
Lesson 8.3: Developing Peer Relationships
Lesson 8.4: Understanding Romantic RelationshipsModule 9: ViolenceLesson 9.1: Bullying and Cyberbullying
Lesson 9.2: Sexual Harassment and Assault
Lesson 9.3: Abuse and Neglect
Lesson 9.4: Violence in the CommunityModule 10: Human Development and SexualityLesson 10.1: The Male Reproductive System
Lesson 10.2: The Female Reproductive System
Lesson 10.3: Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
Lesson 10.4: Understanding Development
Lesson 10.5: Adolescence and Puberty
Lesson 10.6: Aspects of Sexuality
Lesson 10.7: Practicing Sexual AbstinenceModule 11: STIs and PregnancyLesson 11.1: Common STIs
Lesson 11.2: HIV/AIDS
Lesson 11.3: Preventing and Treating STIs
Lesson 11.4: Teen Pregnancy and ParenthoodModule 12: Pregnancy PreventionLesson 12.1: What Is Contraception?
Lesson 12.2: Barrier Methods
Lesson 12.3: Hormonal Methods
Lesson 12.4: Natural Methods and Sterilization - The Look Inside images are for preview purposes only. The format of the actual product may vary from the images shown.
- Correlations
- HECAT2025 Comprehensive Health Skills for High School (PDF, 758.2 KB)IndianaHealth and Wellness - Grades 9 – 12 (PDF, 485.99 KB)National StandardsNational Sex Education Standards, Second Edition (Grades 9–10) (PDF, 230.19 KB)National Health Education Standards (Grades 9–12) (PDF, 204.51 KB)
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