The Ninth Edition of Donatelle’s book is a Green Edition, written, produced and manufactured with an emphasis on environmental responsibility. The book presents readers with Ideas for Thriving, focusing on the concept of wellness and on developing positive behaviors that contribute not just to health, but also to well-being and thriving. This current, user-friendly book holds readers’ interest by covering health topics of primary concern to them, and provides readers with the tools they need to make healthy, lifelong behavior changes and become savvy consumers of health information.

Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of support materials, this edition makes teaching and learning personal health easier than ever. The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package. The Teaching Tool Box, the Instructor Resource DVD with 30 new ABC News videos, the revamped website, the anonymous MyHealthLab self-assessments, which speak to the gradebook, the updated Test Bank utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy to categorize questions, and the Teaching Health & Wellness Community website all help professors teach and assess readers better and more easily than ever before.

Key Topics: The Basics of Healthy Change,  Psychosocial Health, Managing Your Stress, Your Sleep, Violence and Abuse, Healthy Relationships and Sexuality, Your Reproductive Choices, Addiction and Drug Use, Alcohol and Tobacco, Nutrition and You, Managing Your Weight, Your Body Image, Personal Fitness, Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer, Your Risk for Diabetes,  Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions, Aging, Death, and Dying, Environmental Health, Your Spirituality, Savvy Health Care Consumerism,

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Market: Intended for readers interested in learning the basics of health