The Beartooth MT Ascent Relationship Skills Program
What makes a relationship healthy? Characteristics of healthy relationships
At Beartooth Mt Ascent We help the young men to recognize that good relationships share certain characteristics, such as trust, openness, and mutual respect and acceptance. They will learn all the required skills, such as the ability to communicate and manage conflict effectively. In
Family life, dating relationships and marriage, these skills are absolutely crucial.
Young men can develop and practice good relationship skills in their everyday contacts with staff, parents, friends and peers. The young men will also learn to evaluate their many relationships by studying the characteristics that make a relationship healthy.
Young adults can develop skills and understanding that will help them to recognize and build healthy dating relationships. It will also serve them well if and when they marry.
There are two sides to trust — being able to demonstrate that you trust someone and being able to act in a trustworthy fashion. Trust is essential for any relationship to be healthy.
Being an young adult can be tough. Adulthood is a time when young men learn how to make decisions about relationships with their friends, family, and girlfriends. What they learn now, about how to treat others, will affect relationships throughout their lifetime. But troubled young men can't do this by themselves. They need adults — parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, and others — to help them understand and choose healthy respectful, relationships. |
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We Help Young Men Recognize, What is a healthy dating relationship?
Here Are Principles We Teach at Beartooth MT Ascent:
Healthy relationships increase your energy for the things in your life. The relationship inspires you rather than drains you. A caring Relationships partner will motivate and support you rather than confine or control you.
In order to get into a healthy relationship, it's important to set boundaries and Respect in order take care of yourself before and while you're in the relationship. It is never a good idea to get completely wrapped up in someone to the exclusion of your family and friends.
Self-confidence is very important in a relationship. A person who feels insecure may find it hard to trust, hard to be honest, and hard to manage conflict calmly. Give yourself time to develop a sense of who you are and why you are a uniquely valuable person before you get too deeply involved in a romantic relationship.
Friendship should be the basis of a romantic relationship. Choose that person carefully. Take time to pick someone you like, admire and respect.
In a healthy dating relationship, each person has people who can support them. You should never feel that you have to hide what's going on in the relationship. You need people around you who are supportive.
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Making Healthy Relationship Choices
Relationships that have a lot of conflict or violence of any type (verbal, physical, emotional or sexual) are not healthy. If a little voice inside you is saying that something's not right in the relationship, listen! Talk with someone you trust, other than your boyfriend or girlfriend, about these concerns.
Friendship should be the basis of a romantic relationship. Choose that person carefully. Take time to pick someone you like, admire and respect.
If you want your son to appreciate and not take for granted what has been provided for him by you, then our Ranch is the place to help him grow in
appreciation and thanksgiving for all that he has received in his life. Young men that engage in our program leave here with a deeper respect for authority,
self-discipline, and a new work ethic that will help them be successful in holding down a job or going to college.
Ten ways to create healthy relationships
1.Have independent interests and activities that fulfill you. Never depend on the other person
totally to make you feel complete.
2. Choose a person that you like and admire and who likes and admires you in return.
3. Accept the other person for who she or he is. Never count on someone changing themselves for you.
4. Become a good communicator. Be a good listener.
5. Develop skills to manage conflict without violence.
6. Keep your friendship alive with quality time
7. Learn what makes the other person feel loved and appreciated.
8. Discuss your expectations with each other. Honor any commitments that you make. When each
of you behaves in a trustworthy fashion, you can learn to trust each other.
9. Respect each other’s opinions, limits, need for individual time, etc.
10. Know where to get support or help if you need it |
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