The purpose of this discussion is for students to define and justify the significance of positive health and well-being being an important expansion over the more typical concept of health that focuses primarily on physical conditions.
Step 1: What are the key differences between the fight-or-flight response and the tend-and-befriend response? How do these two responses impact romantic love, positive relationships, and positive health?
Step 2: Referring to chapter 6, what are the critical aspects of wellness that go beyond the traditional model of health and how is this significant?
Step 3: Present and justify your answers to the following questions:
What are the 5 things you think make relationships affect physical health and psychological well-being?
What are the factors that promote durable love? What advice would you give a new couple to promote satisfaction and stability in their relationship?
Using the following terms, what do you think will happen in a relationship and in one’s health if any one of these factors is missing: passion, intimacy, and commitment?
What can harm a relationship and what would you hypothesize would minimize the possibility of such harm occurring?
What do you think will promote durable love?
How could you promote a positive family that is both resilient and flourishing and would promote positive health?
Step 4: Synthesize your responses to the previous steps by writing a concise answer to the following questions: What are important reasons why psychological factors, romantic love, and positive relationships are as important as exercise and good diet in promoting positive health?
