Wellness: Concepts and Applications continues to use a variety of learning aids to enhance student comprehension.

            Goals for Behavior Change: These are listed at the beginning of each chapter, giving students objectives that help them apply what they learn in the text. They reinforce the concept of self-responsibility on which the text is based.

            Nurturing Your Spirituality: These boxes cover such topics as living well with cancer, making decisions about sex, and enjoying healthy pleasure, showing students that wellness goes beyond the physical dimension.

            Wellness on the Web: These are activities that take students to quizzes, questions, and self-assessments on the text’s online learning center. Completing these activities will help the students assess their current practices and design a more wellness-oriented lifestyle.

            Wellness Across the Generations: These boxes address wellness concepts throughout the life span by looking at issues such as childhood origins of heart disease, alcohol and drug use among young women, and strength training for older adults.

            Real World Wellness: These question-and-answer boxes show students how to put wellness concepts into practice. Helpful tips give students practical advice for initiating behavior change and staying motivated to follow a wellness lifestyle.

            Just the Facts: Special material in these boxes encourages students to delve into a particular topic or closely examine an important health issue.

Key Terms: The most important terms for student retention have been set in boldface type in the text for easy identification.

            Chapter Objectives: These are introduced at the beginning of each chapter. They help the student identify the chapter’s key topics. Accomplishing the objectives indicates fulfillment of the chapter’s intent.

            Chapter Summaries: These identify the main parts of the chapter and reinforce the chapter objectives.

            Review Questions: Questions are provided to help students review and analyze material for overall understanding.

            References: Accurate and current documentation is given at the end of the chapters.

            Suggested Readings: Additional current resources are provided for students to obtain further information.

            Assessment Activities: Each chapter concludes with at least two Assessment Activities to help students apply the content learned in the chapter to their own decision-making. The text is perforated for easy removal of the Assessment Activities.

            Appendix: Food Composition Table – More than 1200 common foods and fast foods are analyzed. This comprehensive table will help students complete Assessment Activities in Chapter 6.

            Glossary: A comprehensive glossary is provided at the end of the text that includes all key terms, as well as additional terms used in the text.

Just a quick glance through the pages of Wellness: Concepts and Applications will show you that technology is woven through every chapter. Similarly, the ancillary package that accompanies the text emphasizes technology while acknowledging the merit of the printed ancillaries. Together, the text and its ancillaries offer the ideal approach to teaching and learning – one that integrates the best tools that technology has to offer, challenging both instructors and students to reach higher.