Teen-Focused Resources · TE-05

Relationship Pattern Cards

Explore patterns of consent, respect, control, repair, privacy, and support in context without assigning blame to the person experiencing harm.

Clinician-created · specialist review required

Client group: Teens20-30 minutesGuided worksheetAdult professional use

For clinician-facilitated use

This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.

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How to use it

Choose fictional examples or cards you feel safe enough to discuss.
Place each card under feels respectful, needs more context, concerning, or pass.
Consider patterns, power, fear, consent, privacy, and whether boundaries are respected.
If a situation feels unsafe, pause the activity and choose a trusted support person or professional.

Reflection prompts

What details change how you understand this pattern?
Can someone disagree, leave, or set a boundary without fear?
What support would increase safety and choice?

Facilitator guidance

Use only with dating-violence-informed practice. Avoid mutualizing abuse, directing confrontation, or treating color categories as proof. Respond to disclosures through established safeguarding, confidentiality, documentation, and referral procedures.

Adaptations & accessibility

Use fictional or media-based scenarios before personal material.
Allow private sorting without explanation.
Provide non-dating friendship, family, and online-context versions.

Professional-use review

Dating-violence specialist, licensed-clinician, legal, privacy, and safeguarding review required; the practice must add current local help-seeking resources and procedures.

This clinician-created resource is published for professional evaluation. Before client use, the treating clinician or other qualified adult must determine whether it is appropriate and complete every specialist, accessibility, safeguarding, and local-policy review named above. Publication does not represent individualized clinical approval.