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Recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns

Compare respect, trust, honesty, equality, independence, support, accountability, control, isolation, pressure, and fear over time.

About 29 minutes Finish with a concrete deliverable
MacEwan UniversityRelationship Goals: Equality & RespectYouTube
Course primer

Relationship Goals: Equality & Respect

From MacEwan University. Watch here or open it on YouTube .

During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response.
Before you begin

What this lesson is really solving.

Compare respect, trust, honesty, equality, independence, support, accountability, control, isolation, pressure, and fear over time. This is lesson 1 because later decisions depend on a fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response. Judge repeated patterns and their impact, not only apologies, promises, labels, or isolated good moments. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.

Why this works

Understand the idea before touching the steps.

Judge repeated patterns and their impact, not only apologies, promises, labels, or isolated good moments.

Do this

Follow these steps in order.

Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.

  1. 1

    Describe what respect, trust, equality, privacy, independence, support, honesty, and shared decision-making look like in observable behavior.

  2. 2

    Identify patterns of jealousy, monitoring, humiliation, isolation, threats, coercion, financial control, sexual pressure, stalking, or physical harm.

  3. 3

    Notice how freely each person can say no, maintain other relationships, pursue goals, make choices, and seek help.

Worked example

See the standard in context.

Alex distinguishes a respectful schedule check-in from demands for passwords and proof of location throughout the day. The learner saves a fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.

Quality check

Inspect before you move on.

  • The finished work visibly includes a fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response.
  • You tested the work against this common failure: Excusing repeated control because the person is affectionate later or treating jealousy and monitoring as proof of love.
  • Another person could verify this mastery standard: You can classify observable patterns without blaming the person experiencing harm and match unsafe patterns to confidential help.
Make it real

Your deliverable

A fictional relationship pattern map with green, concerning, and unsafe behaviors, impact, trend, and support response.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Excusing repeated control because the person is affectionate later or treating jealousy and monitoring as proof of love.

You’re ready when

Prove it—don’t just recognize it.

You can classify observable patterns without blaming the person experiencing harm and match unsafe patterns to confidential help.

Objective evidence · 3 questions

Quick knowledge check

Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.

Not yet passed

This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.

1Which action belongs in the recommended process for “Recognize healthy and unhealthy patterns”?
2Which result is the clearest evidence that this lesson’s work is complete?
3Which choice matches the failure this lesson specifically warns against?
0 of 3 answeredEach question measures the action, evidence, or failure condition taught above.
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One check remains

Pass the knowledge check above first.

Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.

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