Background
1.  What are the four essential skills?  pp. 1 & 8
2.  What are the seven national Health Education Standards?  p. 6
3.  Briefly define refusal skills and assertiveness skills.  p. 9
4.  One of the key statements from the Code Blue report is the assertion that "health and education are _________  ________".
5.  What are the leading causes of death for youth ages 5-20?
6.  What six behaviors (or priority health areas) place adolescents at risk for severe consequences including premature death?
7.  Which key findings form the 1997 YRBS do you find most striking and why?
8.  Which social skills are specifically named in the theoretical approaches section?
9.  How does the risk factor approach differ from the protective factor approach?
10.  Explain what is meant by "resilient" individuals?
11.  Describe the youth development paradigm shift.
12.  The seven aspects of self that are critical to survival and healthy youth development can be arranged into what three broad categories?

Teaching the Skills
13.  What are the five steps in teaching social skills?
14.  Compare the chapter on "Making it Work" with Tom Jackson's Activities That Teach.  What similarities do you see?
15.  How does the lesson on pp. 47-50 help to create a supportive environment?