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CHAPTER 4
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Chapter 4
Social Health
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify skill that improve communication
- Illustrate the gender differences in communication
- Discuss the pros and cons of online social networks
- Recount why students may have physical and mental health benefits when involved in intimate relationships
- Discuss the science of love, including the psychological, anthropological, and biochemical views
- Identify characteristics of health and unhealthy relationships
- Recall the issues that couples in long term relationships may confront
Social Health Defined
Social health refers to the ability to interact effectively with other people and with the social environment, to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships, and to fulfill social roles
Communication
Effective communication is key to developing and maintaining healthy relationships
Learn to Listen
Be Agreeable Yet Assertive
Understand How Men and Women Communicate Differently
Nonverbal communication is more powerful than words
Developing Relationships in a Digital Age
- Humans are social beings
- Before we can love or
accept others we must
love and accept ourselves
- How we interact with each other has changed with the rise of the Digital Age (Risks and Rewards)
- Internet
- Social Networking
Facebook Twitter
- Self-Disclosure and Privacy
Other Aspects of Relationships
- Friendships
- Loneliness – different than being alone
- Shyness and Social Anxiety
Dating on Campus
Dating – not what it used to be….
Meeting People
Online Flirting and Dating
Hooking Up
What are the “rules”?
The “Science” of Love
Intimacy: A state of closeness between two people, characterized by the desire and ability to share one’s inner most thoughts and feelings with each other
- Is love a part of intimacy?
- Is intimacy a part of love?
- Can you be intimate with someone without being in love with them?
Stenberg’s Love Triangle (psychological view)
Dysfunctional Relationships
Characterized by negative and destructive patterns of behaviors between partners, or between parents and children
Physical Aggression
Emotional Abuse
Recognize the signs
Codependency
Characteristics include: enabling, exaggerated sense of responsibility, wanting to “rescue”, …
Long-Term Relationships
- Cohabitation
- Same-sex Relationships
- Marriage
Issues:
Money Children
Sex Careers
Infidelity/Extramarital Affairs
