Making It Work: Teens Talk about Relationships
Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Learn to choose a partner wisely by knowing yourself first
- Handle conflict constructively
- Identify controlling or aggressive behaviors
- Learn healthy ways to end a relationship
- Includes Teacher’s Guide with lesson plan, handouts, and activities.
Rather than trivialize dating, Making It Work shows a group of teens sincerely talking about how to build a healthy relationship and how to end it compassionately if they need to break up. Facilitated by two adults, the conversation covers five important aspects: choosing well (know your values), starting out right (getting attention without harassment), dealing with conflict, recognizing controlling behaviors, and ending a relationship. Video dramatizations model behaviors as the teens in the group describe and discuss situations they have experienced.
In a randomized controlled trial with 142 high school students, Making It Work significantly raised teen awareness that controlling individuals are more likely to become dangerous or abusive and should therefore be avoided.
The Teacher’s Guide for Making It Work includes discussion questions and answers, a lesson plan, ready-to-copy handouts, and additional suggested activities. Although it is set up for a group presentation, this program can also be viewed by individuals at home, in medical clinics, at school, or in the library.
Making It Work is part of a three-video package about teen relationships.
Built Around Solid Research
Developed by the Oregon Center for Applied Science, Inc., this program demonstrated significant effects during a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Awards
Telly Award
Summit Award
|
