Peer Relationships

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Peer Relationships

• Chapter 12

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Types of peer relationships

• Friendships a significant relationship between
  two people
• Platonic friendship friendships with a member
  of the opposite gender in which there is
  affection but the two people are not considered a
  couple

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Types of peer relationships

• Casual friendships a relationship between peers
  who share something in common
• Close friends Have strong emotional ties and
  feel comfortable sharing their thoughts,
  experiences, and feelings

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Types of peer relationships

• Cliques a small circle of friends usually with
  similar backgrounds or tastes, who exclude people
  viewed as outsiders
• Prejudice making assumptions or judgments about
  an individual without really know him or her

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Types of peer relationships

• Stereotype an exaggerated or an oversimplified
  belief about an entire group of people, such as
  an ethnic or religious group or gender

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Building Strengthening Friendships

• Be Loyal
• Encourage each other
• Respect each other

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Peer Pressure Refusal Skills

• Lesson 2

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Peer Pressure

• Peer Pressure The influence that people your
  age may have on you

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Positive Peer Pressure

• Participating in activities that have a positive
  outlook
• This may also include not participating in risky
  behaviors or activities
• Role model when you use positive peer pressure
  to influence someone in a healthful way

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Negative Peer Pressure

• Harassment persistently annoying others. May
  include name calling, teasing, or bullying.
• Manipulation an indirect, dishonest way to
  control or influence others.

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Resisting Negative Peer Pressure

• One way to resist negative peer pressure is to
  avoid it
• Make responsible choices

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Assertive Refusal

• Assertive standing up for your rights in a firm
  but positive way
• When you are assertive you state your position
  and stand your ground while acknowledging the
  rights of the other individuals

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Refusal Skills

• Refusal skills techniques and strategies that
  help you say no effectively when faced with
  something that you dont want to do or that goes
  against your values

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Refusal Skills

• Step 1 State your position
• Step 2 Suggest alternatives
• Step 3 Stand your ground

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Passive Aggressive Responses

• Passive people have a tendency to give up, give
  in, or back down without standing up for their
  own rights and needs
• Aggressive people are overly forceful, pushy,
  hostile, or otherwise attacking in their approach

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Dating and Setting Limits

• Lesson 3

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Dating

• Infatuation exaggerated feelings of passion for
  another person, develops
• Affection a feeling of fondness for someone

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Avoiding Risk Situations

• Avoid places where alcohol and other drugs are
  present
• Avoid being alone with a date at home or in an
  isolated place

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Setting Limits

• Your parents or guardians may set limits to your
  dating relationships
• Curfew a set time at which you must be home at
  night

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Abstinence A Responsible Decision

• Lesson 4

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Abstinence Until Marriage

• Abstinence a deliberate decision to avoid
  high-risk behaviors, including sexual behavior
  before marriage and the use of tobacco, alcohol,
  and other drugs
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
  infections spread from person to person through
  sexual contact

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Committing to Abstinence

• Priorities those goals tasks, and activities
  that you judge to be more important than others
• Self-control a persons ability to use
  responsibility to override emotions

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Guide to commit to abstinence

• Establish your priorities
• Set personal limits on how you express affection
• Share your thoughts with your partner
• Talk with a trusted adult
• Avoid high-pressure situations
• Do not use alcohol or other drugs

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Reasons to practice abstinence

• Legal implications
• Effects on your physical health
• Unplanned pregnancy
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Effects on your emotional health
• Effects on your social health