platonic friendship

clique

stereotype

c. Identical beliefs and values

C

d. They can be rewarding way to meet people from around the world

D

The correct answer is B.

This statement should not be asked when you are jealous or envious of a friend. Overcoming these negative feelings should involve reminding yourself of your unique talents and positive aspects of your own life.

B. How can I show my friend that I’m just as popular or smart as he or she is?

Use “I” statements as it creates the atmosphere of not blaming anyone in the situation, it is because of the circumstances.

c. Talk about your own feelings and reasons for ending the friendship.

Positive effect – cliques create a sense of belonging, and this is a type of emotional security.

Negative effect – creating prejudice against individuals as they do not behave the same way as the people in the clique.

Positive and negative effect of cliques

Be honest and assertive in explaining what changed in your friendship. Listen to what your friend have to say in your view. From there you have to talk about what needs to be changed or adapted to so that the friendship can survive. If not, or the friendship is becoming harmful, it is better to end it.

Change in friendship

For example, you do not study much but after hanging out with your friends who always study, you learn to study as well. With the increase in your grade, your parents and teachers will see that you are responsible in studying. If your peers have a habit of smoking, you can adapt that as well to belong to that clique and the adults and some teens may see you as a rebel.

Peers can influence how you act towards something or someone.

Types of friends

Name-calling and bullying are hurtful or intimidating behaviors. These negative behaviors are classified as harassment, which is a coercive behavior that consistently annoys others.

Harassment

Being assertive means that you have the ability to stand your ground while respecting others. It involves communication strategies such as using refusal skills and offering alternatives.

Assertive

Refusal skill is a communication strategy that allows a person to say no or to resist negative peer pressure.

Refusal skills

The correct answer is B.

Positive peer pressure involves encouraging your friend to join community projects and other activities that would positively influence him/her. It does not involve risky behaviors or activities that might harm a person.

B. Encouraging friends to become volunteers at a homeless shelter

The correct answer is D.

Manipulation is exerting negative peer pressure on someone by using indirect, dishonest actions and behaviors that would control or influence other people. In this case, asking a person directly about his/her feelings is not considered a manipulation technique.

D. Asking a person to tell you honestly what she thinks

The correct answer is A.

The three-step process of refusal skills include stating your position, suggesting alternatives, and standing your ground.

A. Try it once before saying no.

Shaking of the head and raising of the hand in a stop sign are body language.

c. Nonverbal assertive refusal

If the clique that you belong to puts on a negative pressure on you, you may be harmed in all aspects. You will also be seen as a pushover and people may lose their respect of you.

Passive response

Since emotions are heightened, fighting can’t be controlled at times and physical violence is the result of these pressure.

Most people yell or fight back when responding aggressively to peer pressure.

Tell them that they need to stop bullying the student as it causes emotional instability to them. Instead of bullying, you can also be a support for the bullied student. If it persists, you can tell a teacher about the situation.

Respond in an assertive manner.

Types of communication

Abstinence is defined as the practice of restraining your own self to avoid high-risk or dangerous behaviors, such using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and engaging in sexual activities.

Abstinence

If a person has self-control, he/she is able to control himself into making responsible actions when faced with a temptation.

Self-control

Intimacy is the close friendship that is shared by two individuals. When two people become close and develop genuine affection, they start to become intimate with each another.

Intimacy

The correct answer is C. There are STDs that cause infertility in females and sterility in males. Moreover, some STDs are untreatable, such as HIV/AIDS.

C. Some STDs have no cure, and some can cause infertility or even death.

The correct answer is A. If you date someone who respects you enough and shares the same values with you, then he/she would be able to accept and understand your commitment to abstinence. In this case, your self-control would be maintained.

A. Date someone who respects and shares your values

The correct answer is B. The statements shown in choices A, C, and D are pressure lines that force someone to be engaged in sexual activities.

B. If you feel uncomfortable with this, then we shouldn’t do it.

The correct answer is D. According to the statistics, there are 1,000,000 American teenage girls that get pregnant every year.

D. 1,000,000

You were not able to uphold the values you set for yourself and you will start thinking that it may be the start of losing the other values that you have.

When it is against the values of the family and yourself.

It is easier to give in to pressure without supervision from adults or anyone with you. Alcohol and drug intoxication also impairs judgment to refuse sexual advances.

Being alone with a date at home and being in places where there are alcohol and drugs.

Sexually active individuals have their time cut off from making new relationships and building the existing relationship they have with their friends. It also harms the relationship they have with their family if it is opposite of the family values. They may also face hurtful words from other people in the case of unplanned pregnancy.

Sexual activity on social health

Most parents set a curfew in staying out on school nights and on weekends. Also, some parents talk with teens about sexual activities and abstinence or avoiding high-risk activities. They can also talk about the places where to go on dates and the activities during the date.

Setting limits for dating

The more exposed the teens are to sexual contents in digital form, the more they are likely to engage in sexual activity. They tend to get curious over things they see on the internet and TV. Nowadays, sex is an open topic among adolescents and to know more about it means that you belong to a circle.

Media influence on sexual activities

Physical benefits: Abstinence can prevent you from getting STDs or sexually transmitted diseases and eliminate the chance of unplanned pregnancy.

Mental/emotional benefits: Guilt can be prevented because the teens kept sexual activities from their parents; hurt if the partner is not committed to the relationship as in a marital relationship; and regret and anxiety if the teens contracted STD and unplanned pregnancy.

Social benefits: No need to stop education to take care of a baby if an unplanned pregnancy occur; teens won’t have provide additional financial support for their child; teens can create new relationships or interests.

Benefits of abstinence