Working With Youth - Romantic Relationships

Details signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships to help youth assess their own relationships

Explains that positive examples of sex and sexuality help youth grow into sexually healthy adults.

A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.

Love is ... is a video compilation, where local teens share their healthy relationship experiences in one extended video and also in four slightly different, separate mini videos.

Tips to help youth and their partners create and maintain a healthy relationship.

Overview and statistics for stakeholders, researchers, practitioners Includes state by state data and resources in these topics: Dating and Sexual Relationships, Bullying, LGBT, Dating Violence, Healthy Friendships, Talking With Teens.

Quiz for assessing whether you are in a healthy relationship and modeling respect at home.

Quiz for teens to determine whether they are in a safe and healthy relationship

Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.

Summary of Kirby Summit on adolescent brain development and neuroscience. Includes three key messages and recommendations for researchers, program developers, TTA providers, and funders.

Research summary that concludes programs aimed at preventing teen dating violence or promoting healthy teen relationships more broadly are likely to be most effective if they take into consideration the potential ways in which peers and peer contexts shape teens’ experiences within close relationships.

In this Research Brief, Child Trends used the “Romantic Pair” subsample of a long-term study of adolescent health to describe relationship dynamics among young adults in heterosexual relationships.