Create a Continuum of Human Relationships Continuum of Human Relationships As you move away from family you will meet new people and develop a variety of new relationships Relationships vary in their degree of intimacycommitment ID: 524442
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TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPSSlide2
Create a Continuum of Human RelationshipsSlide3
Continuum of Human Relationships
As you move away from family, you will meet new people and develop a variety of new relationships
Relationships vary in their degree of intimacy/commitmentSlide4
Human Contacts
No commitmentSlide5
Acquaintances
We acknowledge themSlide6
Proximity Friends
Only because we live, work, or play in the same areaSlide7
Selected Friends
Develop from proximity friendships due to common interests, backgrounds, enjoy their company, etc.Slide8
Significant Friends
Share personal feelings and disclose things about ourselves (more than ‘selected friends’)Slide9
Intimacy
Involves
deep emotional bond and high level of trust.
DOES NOT
necessarily imply ‘sexual closeness’
Sexual involvement doesn’t always involve intimacy
We can be ‘intimate’ with family or very close friendsSlide10
Social Media
How has Facebook and other forms of social media impacted friendship and the continuum of human relationships?Slide11
In your notes….
A) Describe different ways of being intimate. Provide believable examples (real or pretend).
B) What are some
individual prerequisites
(personality traits/characteristics) that would
help
someone with intimacy?
C) What are some
individual impediments
(personality traits/characteristics) that would
stop/impede
one’s ability to be intimate
Remember, INTIMACY = deep emotional bond and high level of trust.