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Assignment:

Question 1:

Overview

The purpose of the discussion is to explain positive strategies in response to relationship challenges and crises.

Instructions

STEP 1: Review/Watch the following TED Talk:

Break-Ups Don't Have to Leave You Broken | Gary Lewandowski | TEDxNavesink (12 min) Dr. Gary Lewandowski, Jr., professor of psychology at Monmouth University, makes the case that if your relationship doesn't help you become a better person, ending it does. Leaving a bad relationship provides an opportunity for growth and learning.

STEP 2:

Imagine a friend or family member in the middle of a relationship breakup.

STEP 3: In your initial discussion post

Explain advice in this TED Talk about getting through a relationship breakup.

Describe your favorite insight from this talk.

Explain what you would share from this talk if you were supporting a friend through a relationship breakup.

When you are ready to post your response, select "Reply" below.

Reply to at least two other posts with your relevant and thoughtful feedback by the week's deadline.

Question 2:

Overview

This purpose of this assignment is to

• Explain positive strategies in response to relationship challenges and crises.
• Describe supportive strategies for parenting challenges.
• Identify strategies in coping with family crises.

Instructions

STEP 1:

Review this TED Talk:

The Three Secrets of Resilient People (17 min)

To most people in the field, resilience research is a calling, an academic interest or maybe even just a buzzword. For resilient expert Lucy Hone, it turned out to be an essential survival skill. In this powerful and personal talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through an unimaginable tragedy and-in doing so-offers profound insights on how to find meaning in loss.

(Aligns with Module Learning Objectives 1, 2, 3)

License:

By TED

Creative Commons license, Attribution - NonCommercial - NonDerivative (BY-NC-ND)

STEP 2:

Identify the three resilience strategies that Lucy Hone shares in this talk.

STEP 3:

• Describe a crisis situation you are familiar with. (This can be fictional, from a film, book, series, or personal observations.)
• Explain the degree to which you have observed Lucy Hone's three resilience strategies in action.
• Identify other resilience strategies that could be helpful in similar situations. By contrast, what would not be helpful?
• Summarize your thoughts on resilience and its boundaries, when one is being asked to bend too much.