Week #8

Social Health

Friendship: a relationship based on mutual trust, acceptance and common interests or values. 

Objectives:

1. Distinguishing between casual and close relationships.

2. Understand what can benefit a healthy friendship and what can hinder it.

3. Identify the safety rules for a dating relationship

Violence in a dating relationship:

1. Dating Violence: is a pattern of emotional, physical or sexual abuse that occurs in a dating relationship.

2. There is a CYCLE OF VIOLENCE: this connects the following stages in a circle (cyclical pattern) of one thing leading to another until the pattern repeats.

a) violent episode: This is when the verbal, emotional, sexual or physical abuse occurs

b)calm period: a period accommodated with apologies, promises of improvement, gifts or denial of abuse

c) tension-building: picking fights, criticism or threatening increases, tension builds until the cycle repeats and the violent episode erupts. 

Date Rape: when rape occurs on a date

Safety for dating/ ways to help prevent date rape

1. go out as a group

2.let someone know where you are going

3.avoid alcohol or other drugs

4. have money to get home

5.in an emergency call 911

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Choosing Abstinence: 

Understand how sexual practices can impact the following:

1. emotional health

2.your relationship

3.risk of pregnancy 

4. risk of sexually transmitted infections 

Emotional Intimacy refers to the openness, sharing, affection and trust that can develop in a close relationship. 

Skills for maintaining abstinence:

1. set clear limits

2. communicate your limits

3. avoid high-pressure situations

4. assert yourself 

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For the topics above please include why each point is important. We discussed several options during class but they are open to interpretation of individual experience or opinion. 

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