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Skills for Healthy Relationships

Skills for Healthy Relationships. Communication. The process of sharing information, thoughts, or feelings. Communicating is a skill. These skills include “I” messages, active listening, assertiveness and appropriate body language. “I” Messages.

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Skills for Healthy Relationships

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  1. Skills for Healthy Relationships

  2. Communication The process of sharing information, thoughts, or feelings. Communicating is a skill. These skills include “I” messages, active listening, assertiveness and appropriate body language.

  3. “I” Messages Is a statement that expresses your feelings, but does not blame or judge the other person. Example page 136

  4. Active Listening Is focusing your full attention on what the other person is saying and letting that person know you understand and care. An active listener responds to what is being said. The listener makes the speaker feel comfortable about opening up and expressing feelings.

  5. Assertiveness Be assertive- stand up for your rights State your position- say “no” Suggest alternative- Stand your ground Don’t be “passive”- a tendency to give up, give in, or back down without standing up for their own rights and needs. Some people feel they have to be “aggressive”-overly forceful, pushy, hostile, or otherwise attacking in their approach.

  6. Body Language Includes posture, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. People are often unaware of the silent messages sent by their body language.

  7. Cooperation Working together towards a common goal. Examples? Cooperation builds strong relationships that are based on a mutual trust, caring, and responsibility.

  8. Compromise Is the willingness of each person to give up something in order to reach an agreement. Is a skill of give and take.

  9. Compromise (cont.) • Possible solutions: when you are willing to compromise, you let the other person know how important the relationship is to you. • When not to compromise: when something is dangerous or against your values. • -instead of compromising be assertive and take a stand and make it clear about how you feel.

  10. Friendships • Is a relationship based on mutual trust, acceptance, and common interests or values.

  11. People look to their friends for honest reactions, encouragement during bad times, and understanding when they make mistakes.

  12. Safe and HealthyFriendships Peers – people of similar age who share similar interests. TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS: Friendship- a significant relationship between two people.

  13. Friendships • Platonic Friendship- a friendship with a member of the opposite gender in which there is affection but the two people are not considered a couple.

  14. Friendships • Casual Friendship- between peers who share something in common.

  15. Friendships • Close Friendship- casual friends who have strong emotional ties, share thoughts, feelings, and experiences

  16. Problems with Friendships Envy and Jealousy Cruelty Cliques

  17. DO NOW! • Does WHS Have “Cliques”? • Clique- a small circle of friends, usually with similar backgrounds or tastes, who exclude people viewed as outsiders.

  18. Problems with Cliques • Prejudice- making assumptions or judgments about an individual without really knowing him or her. • Stereotype- an exaggerated and over simplified belief about an entire group of people, such as an ethnic or religious group or a gender.

  19. QUESTION How do you judge a new person you just met?

  20. Choosing Friends • Be Loyal • Encourage Each Other • Respect Each Other

  21. Peer Pressure • Peer Pressure- the influence that people your age may have on you.

  22. QUESTION Is all peer pressure negative? Explain

  23. Peer Pressure • Harassment- persistently annoying others • (Name calling, teasing, bullying)

  24. Negative Peer Pressure • Manipulation- an indirect, dishonest way to control or influence others. • Mocking or teasing • Using guilt trips • Bargaining- making a deal to get your own way • Using flattery • Bribing- money or favors • Making threats • Using blackmail

  25. Positive Peer Pressure • Role model to others: • examples?

  26. Dating • How do you know when its time to date? • Is there a specific time to date? • Explain?

  27. Dating • Teens begin to have feelings of attraction to people they only thought of as classmates or friends. • *develop social skills • *learn more about yourself • *discover new interests • *reaffirm your values • *begin thinking about your future

  28. Dating • Infatuation- exaggerated feelings of passion for another person. • Affection – a feeling of fondness for someone.

  29. Deciding to date • May not be ready • May have other interests • May have other time commitments • May have family traditions or values • “Everyone is UNIQUE”

  30. WHO ?Male or Female • Who asks the other person out? • Who decides where to go? • Who drives or arranges for • transportation? • Who pays? • Who decides • when the date is over? • Curfew- a set time at which you • must be home at night.

  31. Successful relationships • 1. Establish your priorities- • Think about your goals and set priorities that will help you reach them. Consider YOUR values and those of your family such as respect, honesty, integrity and morality. • Priorities- those goals, tasks and activities that you judge to be more important than others.

  32. ASSIGNMENT • Describe the “perfect date”. • Include all components of dating that were discussed in the previous notes. • (This is a quiz grade)

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