This document discusses healthy relationships and the roles people play in relationships. It defines what a relationship is and lists different types of relationships. It also discusses that healthy relationships fulfill basic human needs of love, belonging, safety and value. The document explores how people take on different roles in relationships and lists some examples of roles. It identifies respect, caring, honesty and commitment as traits of healthy relationships. The document provides tips for building healthy relationships through self-respect, respect for others, communication, cooperation and compromise.

1. HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIPS

2. RELATIONSHIPS
• Relationship: a bond or connection you have with
other people
• Acquaintance
• Casual Friend
• Friend
• Best Friend
• Boyfriend/Girlfriend
• Marriage
• Family
• Parent
• Child
• Sibling

3. ACCORDING TO ABRAHAM MASLOW…
• Everyone needs to be loved and to belong.
• Each of us also needs to feel
safe, secure, valued, and recognized.
• Relationships provide these basic human needs

4. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS CAN…
• Help you become a better person
• Give you someone to talk to when you’re having
problems
• Help relieve stress
• Make life more enjoyable

5. ROLES
• Role: a part you play in many relationships

6. BRAD PITT VIDEO CLIPS
• Brad Pitt is just one person, but he has played many
different roles. Is that true for all of us?
• Do we all play different roles in the relationships we
have throughout our lives?
• Do the roles we play ever change?

7. MRS. EVANS’S ROLES
• Wife • Coach
• Sister • Church Member
• Daughter • Cook
• Friend • Maid
• Student • Tenant
• Teacher
• Aunt

8. What are roles you play?

9. INGREDIENTS FOR A HEALTHY
RELATIONSHIP
• Self Respect
• Respect for Others

10. RESPECT FOR OTHERS
• Listen to other people
• Be considerate of other’s feelings
• Develop mutual trust
• Be realistic in your expectations

11. TRAITS OF HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
• Mutual Respect
• Treat others with respect, they’ll respect you in return
• Caring
• Treat others with kindness and consideration.
• Be empathetic
• Honesty
• Honest and open with others, rather than concealing
thoughts, feelings or actions
• Commitment
• Contribute to the relationship and work to keep it strong,
may require sacrifices.

12. CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS
• Trustworthiness: • Caring:
• Doing what you say • Sympathy, empathy
you will do • Citizenship:
• Responsibility: • Helping neighbors,
• borrow something shoveling walks etc.
breaks you replace it. • Respect:
• Fairness: • Listen when someone
• -taking turns, sharing is talking,

13. UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS
Stereotyping: making an exaggerated or
oversimplified judgments about people who
belong to a certain group.
Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment of a
particular group of people.
Bullying: deliberately harming or threatening
other people who cannot easily defend
themselves.
Hazing: making others perform certain tasks in
order to join the group.

14. SKILLS FOR A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
• Communication
• Exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or
more people.
• Cooperation
• Working together for the good of all
• Compromise
• Problem-solving method in which each participant gives up
something to reach a solution that satisfies everyone.
• Parents Cooperation/Compromise Challenge

15. RELATIONSHIP BANK ACCOUNT
 We have a different bank account
with every person we have a
relationship with.
 The quality of our relationships
depends on how many deposits
and withdrawals we make in each
account.
 When there are significant “funds”
in our bank accounts, an
occasional withdrawal will not
damage the relationship.
 Minimize withdrawals and make
generous deposits on a regular
basis.
 Activity