Week 3 - Monday, February 13 or Wednesday, February 15 

What We'll Cover In Class:

TOPIC:  How we create our life one choice at a time

         Keep what is working for us; change what is not    

  • Self-organize, self-regulate, and self-transcend
  • Intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic and how we want you to analyze the topics
  • Introduce the Behavior Change Project and HEALTH ADVOCATES

Enduring Message:  We make choices every day that create outcomes.  We will continue to make the same choice (usually out of habit) even when we know the outcome has been negative in the past unless we intentionally think about changing it.  Making different more positive choices creates different more positive outcomes.  Choose well. 

Assignments for the Week

  1. Take quiz in D2L (open Monday, February 13 @ 12:01 until Sunday, February 19 @ Midnight).  The quiz will cover Chapter 13- Protecting Yourself, Your Rights and Your Health and concepts presented this week on protecting yourself. 
  2. Complete the Lifescan Question Set Page. Due  Monday, March 5, at noon.  Staple a cover page to the analysis and the computer print out of the results and submit it to THE BOX.

    Students will choose another person who is 20-30 years older than themselves. Click on the Lifescan hotlink in purple below; and either have the older person answer the questions directly or read them the questions and complete the Health Risk Analysis for them. If the student is forty or older, they can do a peer or spouse.   The assignment consists of 1) conducting a Lifescan assessment on the chosen subject, 2) printing out the results, and 3) TYPING a double-spaced two-page paper that includes the following:

    • Before giving the subject the questionnaire, ask them what they believe a) might be their likely cause(s) of death and why, b) what are behaviors that might increase their chance of dying of those causes, and c) are protective behaviors might decrease their chances of death from those causes.  If they changed their behaviors now, do they believe they could change what they think will cause their death? 
    • Complete the Lifescan assessment with the subject. If you and the subject can sit at a computer together, then you can complete the assessment directly on the Lifescan website. If you will be talking to the subject on the phone or will not have access to a computer when you do the assessment, you can print out the questions before you meet with your subject. You can ask the subject to provide you with the answers necessary to complete the Lifescan assessment and enter the answers on the website later. See the http://wellness.uwsp.edu/other/lifescan/lifescan.asp for the question set you will use.
    • Print out the subject's results and share the results with the subject. Your paper should include some direct quotes of the subject's reactions to the results.
    • What behaviors do you think the subject should change to increase useful life expectancy?

    Attach a cover page with your name, id #, section # and assignment title with both the 2-page double spaced paper and the computer printout of the Lifescan results and place the assignment in The Box in CPS by Monday, March 5, 2012 at noon.  The Lifescan results and paper will be placed in your personal folder and can be given to the subject at the end of the semester.

  3. Optional extra credit: Do a Lifescan assessment and 2-page paper on yourself as well (500 extra credit points). Attach all the same materials including a cover page and place it in THE BOX as well, but do not attach it to the first document.   This is also due in THE BOX in CPS by March 5, 2012 at noon.
  4. Start reading Chapter 5.