Comprehensive Health Skills for High School, 5th Edition

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 Skills

Lesson 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 Pressure

Module 2: Building Mental and Emotional Health

Lesson 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 Resilience

Module 3: Stress, Mental Health Conditions, and Coping Strategies

Lesson 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 Grief

Module 4: Food, Nutrition, and Physical Activity

Lesson 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 Activity

Module 5: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs

Lesson 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 Abuse

Module 6: Safety

Lesson 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 Environment

Module 7: Personal Health and Wellness

Lesson 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 Diseases

Module 8: Social Health

Lesson 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 Relationships

Module 9: Violence

Lesson 9.1: Bullying and Cyberbullying
Lesson 9.2: Sexual Harassment and Assault
Lesson 9.3: Abuse and Neglect
Lesson 9.4: Violence in the Community

Module 10: Human Development and Sexuality

Lesson 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 Abstinence

Module 11: STIs and Pregnancy

Lesson 11.1: Common STIs
Lesson 11.2: HIV/AIDS
Lesson 11.3: Preventing and Treating STIs
Lesson 11.4: Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood

Module 12: Pregnancy Prevention

Lesson 12.1: What Is Contraception?
Lesson 12.2: Barrier Methods
Lesson 12.3: Hormonal Methods
Lesson 12.4: Natural Methods and Sterilization

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Front Matter (PDF, 1.48 MB)

Lesson 1.5 (PDF, 1.35 MB)

Lesson 5.3 (PDF, 1.83 MB)

Lesson 5.4 (PDF, 2 MB)

Correlations

HECAT

2025 Comprehensive Health Skills for High School (PDF, 758.2 KB)

Indiana

Health and Wellness - Grades 9 – 12 (PDF, 485.99 KB)

National Standards

National Sex Education Standards, Second Edition (Grades 9–10) (PDF, 230.19 KB)

National Health Education Standards (Grades 9–12) (PDF, 204.51 KB)

About the Author(s)

Catherine Sanderson - Catherine A. Sanderson is the Poler Family Professor and Chair of Psychology at Amherst College. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with a specialization in Health and Development, from Stanford University, and received both master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Princeton University. Professor Sanderson’s research examines how personality and social variables influence health-related behaviors. Her research also examines the development of persuasive messages and interventions to prevent unhealthy behavior and predictors of relationship satisfaction. This research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Professor Sanderson has published more than 25 journal articles and book chapters; four college textbooks; high school and middle school health textbooks; and a trade book, The Positive Shift, which examines how mind-set influences happiness, health, and even how long people live. Her latest book, Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels, examines why good people often stay silent or do nothing in the face of wrongdoing. In 2012, she was named one of the country’s top 300 professors by the Princeton Review.

Mark Zelman - Mark Zelman is a Professor of Biology at Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology at Rockford College, with minors in chemistry and psychology. He received a PhD in microbiology and immunology at Loyola University of Chicago, where he studied the molecular and cellular mechanisms of autoimmune disease. During his postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, he studied aspects of cell physiology pertaining to cell growth and cancer. Dr. Zelman supervises undergraduate research on streptococcal and staphylococcal infections, and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. He teaches science education courses for high school teachers. He has published articles on microbiology, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, and biotechnology, and he has written two college texts on human diseases and infection control. Dr. Zelman works with the West Africa AIDS Foundation in Ghana and other public health projects in the US and abroad. He is an officer of the Illinois State Academy of Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of the Academy’s scientific journal, Transactions.

Diane Farthing - Diane Farthing received her bachelor’s degree and teaching credentials from Kent State University in Ohio and has been teaching health education for 38 years. In 2010, she became a National Board Certified Teacher. Diane’s teaching career includes 16 years at a continuation high school and five years at the middle school level. Since 2004, she has been teaching health education and anatomy and physiology at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California. She spent seven years as part of the Bay Area Physical Education-Health Subject Matter Project leadership team designing and delivering professional development institutes. In 2014, she took on the role of Health Program Director for the Health and Physical Education Collaborative (H-PEC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping teachers develop physical and health literacy in their students. Diane was a member of the CDE’s Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee and helped write the Health Education Curriculum Framework for California Public Schools. She is the 2019 California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD) Health Teacher of the Year and the 2020 Western District Teacher of the Year.

Melanie Lynch - Melanie Lynch is an experienced teacher with more than 25 years in the classroom. She spent the first 21 years of her career specializing in teaching only health education. She now teaches health and physical education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at North Allegheny Intermediate High School. She has served as Vice President of Health Education for SHAPE Pennsylvania for five years and served as their President in 2016. Also in 2016, SHAPE America named Melanie the National Health Education Teacher of the Year. Melanie’s love of working with students and her creative, skills-based lesson ideas have taken her all over the country, where she has spoken to thousands of teachers. Melanie is grateful to work, learn, and grow with so many amazing teachers.

Melissa Munsell - Melissa Munsell has worked as an instructional specialist in the Physical Education and Health Department at North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, and served as the K–12 Health Education Lead for the district. Melissa received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from The University of Texas at Austin and is certified to teach Physical Education K–12 and Health Education 6–12, among other endorsements, in the state of Texas. She has 28 years of teaching and administrative experience, including six years teaching health education at the high school level. She has also served as vice president of the Health Division and General Division of the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (TAHPERD) and presents workshops and lectures on various health topics locally and statewide.