Relationships: The Teen Years

connections you have with people and groups in your life

• communication

• adolescence

• relationship

• clique

aware of how you may be feeling at a given moment

• affection

• body language

• assertive

• sympathetic

a group of friends who hang out together and act in similar ways

• limits

• relationships

• clique

• adolescence

the influence to go along with the beliefs and actions of other people your age

• peer pressure

• refusal skills

• consequences

• assertive

the period following the onset of puberty during which a young person develops from a child into an adult

• peer pressure

• adolescence

• abstinence

• clique

the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people

• relationships

• clique

• communication

• body language

the use of visual cues to communicate information or feelings

• refusal skills

• affection

• body language

• peer pressure

when your words say one thing but your body language and/or intonation say another

• refusal skills

• "I" message

• mixed message

• assertive

a statement that presents a situation from the speaker's personal viewpoint

• refusal skills

• body language

• mixed message

• "I" message

hearing, thinking about, and responding to other person's message

• relationship

• communication

• active listening

• assertive