Relationships are important for human connection and well-being. Healthy relationships are built on trust, mutual respect, sharing, and effective communication. Good communication involves listening skills, assertiveness, using "I" statements, asking open questions, and reading nonverbal cues. Relationships require balancing rights and responsibilities between partners to promote equality and prevent abuse of power.

1. Relationships and Health

2. Developing and Maintaining Positive Relationships Relationships are the connections we have with certain people and certain groups. We can not live without relationships. One of our human needs is to relate to others and share experiences. Close interpersonal relationships can satisfy the need for love, care, support, acceptance and a sense of belonging in the world. Over time we be involved in having many different relationships with different people for long or short terms, however one thing is for sure, our relationships will be Dynamic meaning constantly changing and developing. This means relationships require work and a strong effort to maintain those relationships.

3. The most positive and successful relationships rely on the following key factors. -Trust?? -Mutual Respect??? -Sharing??? -Effective communication???? Communication: To enhance communication both parties need to enhance the ability to be both a sender of info and a reciver. Practice in pairs for second!

4. Skills for Effective Communication : Good communication is the key for all healthy, positive and satisfying relationships. Communication allows conflict resolution to be possible without further conflict because they can express feelings, emotions & opinions. Some topics may be very difficult to discuss, e.g sex, relationship fights, or bad memories. Being able to communicate will reduce conflict and embarrassment when discussing these topics. E.g Counselor

5. Numerous skills are required for effective communication , with practice and effort these skills can be improved to the benefit of the relationship. - Active Listening ??? (ears, mind, heart & nonverbal) Assertiveness??? (express positive feelings, stand up for your rights, and express negative opinions without creating further conflict) “ I” messages????; (e.g I feel, I understand) Open questions???? (these encourage a much fuller response) Negotiation??? (coming to a mutually agreed arrangement through discussion. It only works when both parties are open to a positive result) Nonverbal Communication???? (This is the physical reactions and statements made from the body to complement every conversation.) e.g eye contact, facial expressions, posture, and even tone of voice) Mark Twain “if we are supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear” Consider that statement.

6. Accepting and fulfilling responsibilities : Rights are super important in relationships. Many rights are situated in the laws and moral standards of society. Each Right carries with it responsibilities; actions we must take to show respect for other people. Rights and responsibilities will change for each relationship based on the nature of the relationship. E.g our rights and responsibilities change from say a girlfriend to the local video owner. Whatever the relationship is, it is important that the other member is respected and their rights met. You come up with your own rights and responsibilities for relationships.

7. Respect for others’ rights : All relationships require a balance of responsibilities between the people in the relationships. (think back to yr 10 pdhpe when you studied relationships and power in relationships. Boundaries are also very important in relationships so both parties feel equal in the relationship. Positive relationships require all members of the relationship to pull there weight and fulfill their responsibilities. Remember that you still have a relationship with your parents and the same principals exist in that relationship. Also remember that parental relationships are also dynamic.

8. Power in relationships: Power in relationships needs to be equal if both parties rights and responsibilities are to be met. Power is often scued in one partners favor and therefore resentment is caused in the other partner. Power does not just relate to boyfriend girlfriend, same sex partners. It can be in many different forms in many different relationships. Power can originate from many areas, such as socioeconomic status, education, finance, gender, race and orientation to certain groups. Our ability to use power or act with power depends on the situation we are in. E.G you can argue with friends but it is not the best option to argue with a boss. Power in relationships can be used in positive and negative ways. A balance of power enables both parties in a relationship to feel safe.

9. When power is not used correctly then a case of Abuse is caused. Abuse is when someone uses power against others to intimidate them and get them to do what they want. The types of abuse are listed below; - physical??? -emotional??? -verbal??? -sexual??? Remember that trust is very hard to earn so therfore when abused then it will be very hard to gain back. A balance of power is not always possible, eg school students and teachers, kids and parents. However rights and responsibilities should still be met for positive relationships.

10. REVIEWING RELATIONSHIPS ; Relationships provide a person with a sense of connectedness and therefore self efficacy and self esteem. That means the status or nature of a relationship does effect health in a broad way. Connectedness provides us with a sense of feeling valued and supported.

11. Tomorrow Tomorrow you need to go on research lesson! First go to the PDHPE staffroom and collect your work from my desk! Then go to the library and complete the research task. Good luck! Next week we start the Body in Motion So congrats you have completed core 2!