This short guidance title opens with a definition of healthy relationships, which two onscreen hosts describe as relationships involving common goals and interests, featuring characteristics such as trust, respect, and choice. Unhealthy relationships, by contrast, are often marked by conflict and double standards. Aimed at middle and high school students, the program covers both platonic and romantic relationships, using examples to illustrate the concepts (occasionally with rotoscoping, which gives real images the heightened, abstract look of animation). Miguel recalls that two friends asked him to help them cheat on a test. To keep the peace, Miguel provided them with answers, and everybody got in trouble. Tia and Emma talk about friends who betrayed a confidence or spoke about them disrespectfully. In both cases, the so-called friends attempted to make them look small. In the romantic scenarios, unnamed students describe bossy or controlling behavior. Along the way, experts put the stories into perspective. Social worker and program advisor Amy Edelstein describes an unhealthy relationship as one that features any kind of bullying, while clinical psychologist Robert Eckstein divides abuse into three categories: emotional, physical, and sexual. Definitions and examples are followed by solutions, which often involve leaving an unhealthy situation. Recommended. Aud: J, H, P. (K. Fennessy)
How to End Unhealthy Relationships
(2016) 16 min. DVD: $149.95 (teacher’s guide included). Human Relations Media. PPR. Closed captioned. ISBN: 978-1-62706-075-2. Volume 31, Issue 4
How to End Unhealthy Relationships
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