1. Social and Emotional Health
Unit 2

2. Explain why friendships are important to social health.
Describe the characteristics of a healthy family.
Identify communication skills for building healthy relationships.
Describe ways to manage stress.
Identify ways of resolving conflicts.
Student Expectations

3. Use Your Journal!

4. Do you think you communicate well? Why?
How do you think you handle conflict and stress? Why? If you think you handle it well, give specific examples.

5. Essential Questions Why is having friends important?
How can I make and keep friends?
What can I do when my friends want me to do things I don’t want to do.

6. Friends

7. Need for others Relationships Friendships
The connection you have with other people.
Parents/relatives
Neighbors
Friendships
A special type of relationship between people who enjoy being with each other.
Similar interests
Similar values
Personal qualities
Same school or neighborhood
Provide companionship and keep you from being lonely

8. Qualities of a good friend
Loyalty-
Reliability-
Sympathy-
Caring-
Qualities of a good friend

9. Peer Pressure
Positive peer pressure- what you feel when your peers inspire you to do something worth while.
Negative peer pressure- what you feel when your peers challenge you to do something wrong or try something that goes against your values.

10. Dealing with negative peer pressure.

11. Ways to resist negative peer pressure
Avoid situations where trouble might occur.
Do a values check
Get a buddy
Say no
Walk away
Ways to resist negative peer pressure

12. Review Define the word relationship and use it in a sentence.
Name 3 reasons why teens may become friends.
Define peer pressure. Give examples of positive and negative peer pressure.
How can friends show good loyalty.
Review