Are You in an Unhealthy Relationship?

Earlier than we enter into our first romantic relationships (however after now we have left the protected cocoon of all household, all of the darn time), we be taught to develop and preserve platonic relationships. These first friendships assist us to be taught numerous social and emotional expertise—and so they additionally present us with our first examples of each wholesome and unhealthy relationships.

In Unequal Partners, Shadeen Francis, MFT, takes the crucible of the teenager friendship and makes use of it to show college students methods to acknowledge good and unhealthy friendship conduct. On this method, college students could be higher ready for the longer term, and be capable to see any warning indicators that will exist of their romantic relationships.

Right here’s a glimpse:

A TRUE FRIEND
Assessing Energy and Management in Friendships
By Shadeen Francis, MFT

Targets

By the tip of this lesson, members will be capable to:

1. Mirror on their concepts of excellent friendship conduct.
2. Acknowledge the traits of controlling or disempowering relationships.
3. Establish various approaches to energy and management in friendships.

Viewers

Younger adolescents (ages 10-13)

Rationale

Friendships are youngsters’s earliest nonfamilial relationships; subsequently they set the stage for future social interactions. By studying methods to establish problems with energy and management in a friendship, members are given the chance to apply recognizing warning indicators in romantic relationships. On this lesson, members acquire a greater understanding of relationship dynamics, and apply them to actual situations. They’re inspired to collaborate with friends to develop numerous methods for constructing extra constructive interactions.

The lesson goes on to supply alternatives for college kids to debate examples of excellent and unhealthy friendship behaviors, and the influence they will have on particular person friendships, and on friendship teams. The lesson plan additionally goes into energy and management dynamics, and tries to impart the notion that wholesome relationships are constructed upon equality and mutual respect.

For those who’d prefer to see the complete lesson plan, it’s best to decide up your copy of Unequal Partners right here!