Decision Making

Question 1

A decision

Answer 1

is a choice you make or act upon.

Question 2

A good decision

Answer 2

is a decision in which you have carefully considered the outcome of each choice. To accept personal responsibility is to accept how your decisions may affect you and other people.

Question 3

Decision-making skills

Answer 3

will help you make decisions based on your needs and desires.

Question 4

Decision-making skills

Answer 4

must be practiced and exercised in resolving issues and concerns about sexuality.

Question 5

The 6 steps of Decision Making

Answer 5

→ Determine the problem
→ Explore the alternatives
→ Consider the consequences
→ Identify your values
→ Decide
→ Evaluate

Question 6

How important is making good decisions?

Answer 6

Your decisions related to your sexual behaviors affect yourself and other now or later in your life. These sexual behaviors may be toward yourself, your family, your friends, or other people.

Thus, what you choose to do, and how you behave, should be guided by family, social and spiritual standards, and should be based on decision-making steps or procedures.