Wellbeing assessment
The concepts and areas of Hauora:
Physical wellbeing (Taha tinana)
- Physical wellbeing is about keeping fit and making sure that you’re healthy.
- For example, you can stay fit and healthy by going on a walk every day and eating healthy foods like fruit and vegetables.
Mental & Emotional wellbeing (Taha hinengaro)
- Mental and emotional wellbeing is about learning to cope with the normal stresses of life by having a healthy mindset.
- For example, you can do something that you enjoy to help relieve your stress.
Social wellbeing (Taha whanau)
- Social wellbeing is about spending time with friends and family often.
- For example, you can meet up with your friends or family to catch up.
Spiritual wellbeing (Taha wairua)
- Spiritual wellbeing is about knowing what your belives are and understanding the meaning of life.
- For example, you can set achievable goals and stick to them.
Whare tapa wha
The whare tapa wha has for equal walls, this symbolizes the four dimensions of Maori well/being, these are physical wellbeing (Taha tinana), mental & emotional wellbeing (Taha hinengaro), social wellbeing (Taha whanau) and spiritual wellbeing (Taha wairua). All these dimensions of well-being are interrelated as if one of them gets affected they can all become affected. For example, if someone was going through a tough time mentally this would effect there mental and emotional well-being, this could cause them to self isolate from others which would have a negative effect on their social well-being. This could cause depression or sadness which can make a person become unmotivated to do anything, this would mean that the spiritual wellbeing and physical wellbeing would be affected because if they are unmotivated they won’t want to complete their goals also causing them to not feel like getting out and doing any physical activity
Effects and impacts on wellbeing
Physical wellbeing:
Mia and anna could become addicted to vaping as vapes contain nicotine which is an addictive drug, this could have a major impact on their overall health.
This could negatively affect their health as vaping has many physical effects on a person, low doses of nicotine can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and eye irritation and High doses of nicotine can cause high blood pressure, seizures, coma, and even death.
This impacts their physical well-being as vaping negatively affects someone’s health. Vaping effects the lungs negatively and if they continue to vape they will find doing any physical activity difficult.
Strategies to support Physical wellbeing:
- They could give the vape to a responsible adult, this would mean they no longer have the vape and therefore they won’t be able to use it so they don’t have access to the vape which prevent them vaping and effecting their physical wellbeing with the short term and long term effects of vaping.
- They could do their research on vaping to help them understand that vaping has many negative short terms and long term effects on the body.
Mental & Emotional wellbeing (Taha hinengaro)
They could feel guilt and regret trying the vape. This is because they know they did something bad and it may be weighing on there mind. They also know that they did something wrong and are trying to hide what they did. This would impact there mental and emotional wellbeing because they feel guilt and regret which could end up being long term and make them feel unmotivated and sad.
Strategies to support mental & emotional wellbeing
- They can confess what they did to make them stop feeling guilty about what they have done.
- Talk to a trusted parent or counselor to get any unwanted emotions off their chest.
Social wellbeing (Taha whanau)
If parents/ caregivers find out there may be punishments including
getting grounded and not being able to hang out with friends they might not b able to hang out with each other or be allowed to go back to the cousin’s house where the found the vape. Another possible effect could be them losing friends as some people might no longer ant to associate themselves with people who vape. This is because their parents won’t want them to be around the wrong influence and some people won’t want to hang out with them again as they don’t want to be negatively influenced by them. This would impact their social wellbeing as they may lose friends this will affect her negatively as it will make them feel lonely and sad.
Strategies to support social wellbeing:
- The first strategy to support social wellbeing is to apologize for their mistakes this will help their parents and friends understand that they realize what they did was wrong which will increase their chances of forgiving them and will more likely be able to hang out with them again
- Another strategy to support their social wellbeing is to distance themselves from the people who may be having a negative influence on them, this will make them a better person overall. People want to be friends with others who positively influence them so even though they might be losing some of their old friends they will be able to make new ones.
Spiritual wellbeing (Taha wairua)
If they become addicted to vaping it will endanger their spiritual development this could cause them to stop believing in previous beliefs they may have had it can also cause them to become unmotivated to do things as vaping may take over the majority of their life. This will impact there spiritual well-being as they may not be motivated to set and accomplish goals, also if they follow a religion it could affect their beliefs or impact their opinions on things.
Strategies to support spiritual wellbeing:
- They should stop vaping before the start so they won’t have to suffer the long term spiritual effects of vaping.
- Try goal setting and find something to focus on to increase their self worth and integrity.
