Earlier than we enter into our first romantic relationships (however after we’ve got left the protected cocoon of all household, all of the darn time), we be taught to develop and keep platonic relationships. These first friendships assist us to be taught varied social and emotional expertise—they usually additionally present us with our first examples of each wholesome and unhealthy relationships.
In Unequal Partners, Shadeen Francis, MFT, takes the crucible of the teenager friendship and makes use of it to show college students find out how to acknowledge good and dangerous friendship conduct. On this approach, college students may be higher ready for the longer term, and have the ability to see any warning indicators that will exist of their romantic relationships.
Right here’s a glimpse:
A TRUE FRIEND
Assessing Energy and Management in Friendships
By Shadeen Francis, MFT
Goals
By the tip of this lesson, individuals will have the ability to:
- Replicate on their concepts of fine friendship conduct.
- Acknowledge the traits of controlling or disempowering relationships.
- Determine various approaches to energy and management in friendships.
Viewers
Younger adolescents (ages 10-13)
Rationale
Friendships are kids’s earliest nonfamilial relationships; subsequently they set the stage for future social interactions. By studying find out how to establish problems with energy and management in a friendship, individuals are given the chance to apply recognizing warning indicators in romantic relationships. On this lesson, individuals acquire a greater understanding of relationship dynamics, and apply them to actual eventualities. They’re inspired to collaborate with friends to develop numerous methods for constructing extra constructive interactions.
The lesson goes on to supply alternatives for college kids to debate examples of fine and dangerous friendship behaviors, and the impression they’ll have on particular person friendships, and on friendship teams. The lesson plan additionally goes into energy and management dynamics, and tries to impart the notion that wholesome relationships are constructed upon equality and mutual respect.
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