Establishing healthy relationships |
(a) Think about some of the relationships in your life that you enjoy and make you feel happy and supported. Who are they with? How did you meet them? |
(b) What kinds of things do you do that make these relationships healthy and successful? |
(c) What is it about the other person that makes them a good friend or partner? |
Challenges in social relationships |
(a) When you think about your social life right now, what are the biggest problems that you are facing? |
(b) Sometimes relationships don’t work out quite right, and that happens to everyone. If you’ve ever had a friendship or another type of relationship that ended even though you didn’t want it to, what do you think made that happen? |
Possible gaps in existing social skills information |
What kinds of things have you been taught by a teacher, counselor, class, book or a TV show about friendships, other relationships, or dating that really helped you |
What kinds of problems do you experience with social skills that no teacher, no counselor, no class, no book, and no TV show or movie has ever helped you with? |