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This document discusses building healthy relationships and effective communication. It covers choosing relationships like friendship and family, roles people play, and traits of healthy relationships like cooperation, compromise, respect and honesty. It also discusses communication skills like speaking, listening and body language. Barriers to communication and constructive criticism are addressed. The document also touches on peer pressure, refusal skills, and maintaining good relationships with everyone.

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Building Healthy Relationships Wellness 1 Mrs. Gunderson
Choosing Relationships • Relationship: a bond or connection between people • Friendship – a significant relationship between two people based on caring, consideration, and trust • Family relationships provide the strongest bond with others.
Your Many Roles • A role is a part that you play. – Sister, brother, daughter, son, member of the football team, a student, an employee, a church member, boyfriend, or girlfriend – Sometimes the roles you play are clear cut.
The Healthy Relationship • Cooperation: working together for the good of all • Compromise: the result of each person’s giving up something in order to reach a solution that satisfies everyone
Other Traits of a Healthy Relationship • Respect • Acceptance • Honesty • Trustworthiness • Dependability • Loyalty • Empathy: the ability to share another person’s feelings or thoughts
Communication • A process through which you send messages to and receive messages from others • 3 basic skills for effective communication: – Speaking – Listening – Body Language
Communication • “I” message: a statement in which a person tells how he or she is feeling using the pronoun “I” • 80% of our waking hours are spent communicating. • We only retain 30% of what we hear in a ten minute presentation. – This drops even lower after 48 hours.
Communication • Active Listening: really paying attention to what someone is saying and feeling • Reflective Listening • Clarifying • Encouraging • Empathizing
Nonverbal Communication • Body Language: nonverbal communication through gestures, facial expressions, and behaviors • Most is subtle. • Being aware of your body language helps you make sure you are sending the messages you intend.
Barriers to Effective Communication • Unrealistic expectations • The need to project a tough or superior image – Identity: a sense of who you are and your place in the world • Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment against a particular group of people
Constructive Criticism • Non-hostile comments that point out problems and have the potential to help a person change • Giving feedback can be helpful to your relationship. • Avoid attacking the other person.
Compliments • Complimenting another person is a way of acknowledging his or her self worth. • Unlike other forms of communication, compliments are not done with an expected response. • Some compliments are self-effacing and may come at the expense of your own pride.
Friendships • Casual friends are peers with whom you feel socially connected. • Close friends share what they are really feeling and thinking. • Platonic friendship: a relationship with a member of the opposite gender in which there is affection but no sexual activity
Cliques • A small, narrow circle of friends, usually with similar backgrounds and tastes, that excludes people they view as outsiders • One of the most negative aspects of cliques is that they can have prejudiced beliefs and actions. • Stereotype: an exaggerated and oversimplified belief about an entire group of people
Responsible Relationships • Infatuation: exaggerated feelings of passion for another person • Dating often leads to an ongoing relationship with one person. • It is important to remember that adolescence is a time of trying different relationships and roles. • Not all teens date.
Peer Pressure • The control and influence people your age may have over you • Manipulation: a sneaky or dishonest way to control or influence others • Being passive means giving up, giving in, or backing down without standing up for your own rights and needs.
Peer Pressure • Aggressive: overly forceful, pushy, hostile, or otherwise attacking in approach • Assertive: standing up for your own rights, in firm but positive ways
Refusal Skills • Techniques and strategies that help you say “no” effectively when faced with something that you do not want to do or is against your values – 1. State your position simply but firmly. – 2. Suggest alternatives to the behavior being proposed. – 3. Back up your words with actions.
Conclusion • Use these skills to help maintain good relationships with everyone in your life – close and distant, present and future.

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  • 2. Choosing Relationships • Relationship: a bond or connection between people • Friendship – a significant relationship between two people based on caring, consideration, and trust • Family relationships provide the strongest bond with others.
  • 3. Your Many Roles • A role is a part that you play. – Sister, brother, daughter, son, member of the football team, a student, an employee, a church member, boyfriend, or girlfriend – Sometimes the roles you play are clear cut.
  • 4. The Healthy Relationship • Cooperation: working together for the good of all • Compromise: the result of each person’s giving up something in order to reach a solution that satisfies everyone
  • 5. Other Traits of a Healthy Relationship • Respect • Acceptance • Honesty • Trustworthiness • Dependability • Loyalty • Empathy: the ability to share another person’s feelings or thoughts
  • 6. Communication • A process through which you send messages to and receive messages from others • 3 basic skills for effective communication: – Speaking – Listening – Body Language
  • 7. Communication • “I” message: a statement in which a person tells how he or she is feeling using the pronoun “I” • 80% of our waking hours are spent communicating. • We only retain 30% of what we hear in a ten minute presentation. – This drops even lower after 48 hours.
  • 8. Communication • Active Listening: really paying attention to what someone is saying and feeling • Reflective Listening • Clarifying • Encouraging • Empathizing
  • 9. Nonverbal Communication • Body Language: nonverbal communication through gestures, facial expressions, and behaviors • Most is subtle. • Being aware of your body language helps you make sure you are sending the messages you intend.
  • 10. Barriers to Effective Communication • Unrealistic expectations • The need to project a tough or superior image – Identity: a sense of who you are and your place in the world • Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment against a particular group of people
  • 11. Constructive Criticism • Non-hostile comments that point out problems and have the potential to help a person change • Giving feedback can be helpful to your relationship. • Avoid attacking the other person.
  • 12. Compliments • Complimenting another person is a way of acknowledging his or her self worth. • Unlike other forms of communication, compliments are not done with an expected response. • Some compliments are self-effacing and may come at the expense of your own pride.
  • 13. Friendships • Casual friends are peers with whom you feel socially connected. • Close friends share what they are really feeling and thinking. • Platonic friendship: a relationship with a member of the opposite gender in which there is affection but no sexual activity
  • 14. Cliques • A small, narrow circle of friends, usually with similar backgrounds and tastes, that excludes people they view as outsiders • One of the most negative aspects of cliques is that they can have prejudiced beliefs and actions. • Stereotype: an exaggerated and oversimplified belief about an entire group of people
  • 15. Responsible Relationships • Infatuation: exaggerated feelings of passion for another person • Dating often leads to an ongoing relationship with one person. • It is important to remember that adolescence is a time of trying different relationships and roles. • Not all teens date.
  • 16. Peer Pressure • The control and influence people your age may have over you • Manipulation: a sneaky or dishonest way to control or influence others • Being passive means giving up, giving in, or backing down without standing up for your own rights and needs.
  • 17. Peer Pressure • Aggressive: overly forceful, pushy, hostile, or otherwise attacking in approach • Assertive: standing up for your own rights, in firm but positive ways
  • 18. Refusal Skills • Techniques and strategies that help you say “no” effectively when faced with something that you do not want to do or is against your values – 1. State your position simply but firmly. – 2. Suggest alternatives to the behavior being proposed. – 3. Back up your words with actions.
  • 19. Conclusion • Use these skills to help maintain good relationships with everyone in your life – close and distant, present and future.