Healthy Relationships 1

Loyalty
Mutual respect

Being able to share

feelings Concern

Healthy
Relationships
Value each
other
Trustworthiness

Empathy Compassion
 Unhealthy Relationships 2

Jealousy “Fits of
rage” Afraid to disagree

one person constantly

checks up on the other Ideas are
criticized

Unhealthy
Relationships
physical abuse
Pressured to change
of meet other
person's standards

One person exerts One person tells

power and control the other what to
wear, what to do
or who to hang out
 Types of Abuse
Cultural
using racial slurs, not allowing someone to
obserbe the dietary or dress customs of faith,
threatening to “out” someone, ot isolating
someone who doesn't speak the dominant
language where they live
Financial
when someone controls all the
budgeting & finances or running up
debt in the other person’s name
Mental/Psychological
when one partner through a series of
actions ot words wears away at the
other’s sense of mental wellbeing and
health
3
Physical
punching, kicking, strangling, or
physically restraining someone
against their will.
Sexual
can involve rape, forced sex acts, or
withholding or using sex as a weapon.
Verbal/Emotional
harsh criticisms,& verbal insults
telling someone they are “worthless,
stupid, ugly, and no one would want
to ever want them”
 Mental Health Experts 4

Psychiatrists Primary care providers

A medical doctor who can do (Family doctor”
everything a psychologist can, Unless it is an emergency go to family doctor

plus prescribe medicine. first.

Therapist & Counselors

Psychologists
Experts who use talk therapy
Can make mental health diagnosis
techniques to help their clients. They
and develop a treatment plan. They
can work with the whole family or
have doctoral degrees but are not
individual.
medical doctors and cannot
prescribe medication.
Nurses Clinical Social Workers
Those with advanced degrees can Help people live healthier, more productive lives.
provide therapy and sometimes Can help families work through challenging
medication management. experiences.
 IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL BOUNDARIES 5

To have your
privacy and
boundaries you
To feel safe in a have created,
relationship respected
To be treated
respectfully-absence of To be heard
emotional, physical or and listened to
verbal abuse

Why personal
boundaries?
To have your
needs met To feel
validated

To respect the answer To be appreciated

“no” means “no” and valued
 HOW TO CREATE PERSONAL BOUNDARIES 6

STATE YOUR LIMITS

START SMALL TUNE INTO YOUR
FEELINGS

BE ASSERTIVE BE DIRECT

SETTING
PERSONAL
BOUNDARIES
GIVE YOURSELF
SEEK SUPPORT
PERMISSION

MAKE SELF-CARE A PRACTICE

PRIORITY REFLECT ON YOUR SELF-AWARENESS
PAST & PRESENT