Health and wellness

Discussion 1 – My biggest health concern is…….(Required)

Discussion Board Assignment 1 takes place Week 4. Original post due?Wednesday by 11:59 pm. Your two required reply posts must be submitted by?Friday  by 11:59 pm. 

General Instructions: This assignment is an interactive, posting-based discussion activity created to encourage interaction between students as well as student and instructor. Each discussion board activity is focused on a central theme with corresponding questions. Your participation will be graded based on the completion of required tasks (listed below) and the depth of analysis and engagement in your posts. 

You are required to write one main post and two reply posts. 

Each post must include at least one unique source of outside information which supports your ideas/analysis. Each source must then be properly cited at the end of the post. (For assistance, refer to this?citation formatting link. Do not simply paste the URL.) 

Your posts MUST be written at a professional level, like any other written college assignment. This includes correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation, as well as a minimum length of 250 words. If you need assistance in English writing, please access the Grossmont Writing Center and/or the Purdue Owl Writing Center online. 

Remember: the assignment is to get you talking about what you have discovered.?Use specific examples both in your answers to the questions and in your responses to other students’ postings. Check out the Grading Rubric (Discussion Board Rubric 120). 

Discussion Board Assignment 1 Instructions:

1) Read the PowerPoint slides about the 7 dimensions of Health and Wellness (physical, intellectual, psychological, spiritual, social, environmental, and occupational)

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2) Describe a health concern you have, that you feel comfortable sharing with the class (example: risk factor for diabetes, or not getting enough sleep, or having anger issues).

3) State and explain which dimension your health concern belongs in (example: diabetes risk, and not getting enough sleep is the physical dimension, anger issues are in the psychological dimension).

4) Describe a plan ( action steps needed to address this concern) that you are doing or would like to do, to move toward better health in this area Reference an outside source which supports this plan and include a proper citation for this source at the end. 

5) Submit your post by clicking on Reply, typing/pasting your post into the text box, and then clicking Post Reply. 

6) Respond to at least 2 other student’s posts by reading their thread and clicking on the reply button. Your response needs to have some depth by giving specific examples of why you are saying what you are saying- In other words, don’t simply post ” that was a great idea you had”. See example posts below.

In your reply posts DO NOT Diagnose other students’ health issues- instead, share how you relate to their health concern, or just be empathetic (put yourself in their shoes), and then advance the conversation by including outside information relevant to the topic – for example, additional concerns or strategies they could consider. You should be able to fully integrate and expand on this information in your reply post. Finally, properly cite your source(s) at the end of each reply. 

Here’s an example post: Discussion Board 1 post Example 

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1. Discussion Board Rubric 120 

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