Safe and Healthy Friendships

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Safe and Healthy Friendships
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Peer Relationships

• These relationships can play an important role in
  your health and well-being.
• As you get older, your social groups expand.

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Attributes of Friends
Similar values, interests, beliefs, and attitudes
Open and honest communication
Sharing of joys, disappointments, dreams, and concerns
Mutual respect, caring, and support
Concern about each other
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3 Types of Friends

• Casual and Close
• Platonic
• Online

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Casual and Close

• Casual-someone with whom you share interests but
  not deep emotional bonds.
• Close-have strong emotional ties to each other.
  You feel comfortable sharing your thoughts,
  feelings, and experiences.

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Platonic Friendships

• Friendship with a member of the opposite gender
  in which there is an affection, but the two are
  not considered a couple.
• Were just friends!

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Online Friendships

• Can be rewarding because you can get to know
  people from other parts of the world.
• Can be dangerous as well because people lie.

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Problems in Friendships

• Cliques
• Envy or Jealousy
• Changes in friendship

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Cliques

• A small circle of friends who exclude people
  viewed as outsiders.
• Exclude others by showing prejudice.

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Managing Feelings of Envy or Jealousy

• These feelings can harm a friendship.
• Ask yourself these questions if you feel
  jealous..
• What is making me feel jealous?
• Is my friend deliberately trying to make me feel
  this way?
• Are these feelings more important than our
  friendship?

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Changes in friendship

• As you grow older you and a close friend might
  spend less time together and develop new
  interests.

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Activity for today

• Students will choose 2 movies or TV shows they
  are familiar with that have a friendship
  displayed.
• Then analyze the friendship to see if it is
  healthy or unhealthy based on our class
  discussion of healthy relationships.

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Cliques Good or Bad??

• 10 Things I Hate About You Part 1 YouTube
• Answer the following question
• In what ways can cliques be good and when can
  they be bad? Explain your reasons.