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Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works

 

Lesson 9.10: Healthy and Unhealthy Relationship

Lesson Goals

  • Clarify values about healthy and unhealthy relationships.
  • Identify risks of dating significantly older partners.
  • Determine resources for a person in an unhealthy relationship.

Connecting the Lessons

Builds on Lesson 9.3: Sex, Gender and Sexual Responsibility and Lesson 9.7: Sexual Risk and Low-Risk Intimacy.

SEL Skills Addressed

  • Self-awareness
  • Relationship skills
  • Responsible decision making

Logic Model Determinant(s)

  • Address values around abstinence and sex.
  • Address attitudes about abstinence and sex.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms regarding sexual behavior.
  • Address perceptions of peer norms about relationships.
  • Promote SEL skills to increase use of condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Increase self-efficacy to demand the use of condoms and/or other protection methods.
  • Use SEL skills to increase assertive communication in relationships
  • Increase communication with parents and other caring adults.
  • Increase knowledge of resources for community or reproductive health information and services.
  • Increase perceived risk in having an older partner.