Ms. Braden – Lifestyles Mid-Term 2010 - Review Sheet
Chapter 1
1. Identity: what is it? What develops it?
2. Autonomy: what is it? Relationship to identity? What is false autonomy? Freedom; license; relationship of dependence; independence; interdependence
3. Personal power: definition; source; types (positive, negative; nurturing; shared); talent; living fully
4. The three things all humans hunger for
Chapter 5
1. Know: necessary losses; suffering (its meaning; sources; God’s response to ‘why’?; Rabbi Kushner’s response; most significant question to ask? How can it transform a person?); grief & the 5 Stages of Grief
2. Christian teaching regarding suffering; how does one grieve in a healthy way?
3. The Myths of forgiveness
4. Sr. Thea Bowman
Chapter 6
1. Sexuality: definition; how to value self as a sexual person; role of: body image; stereotypes; Jung’s theory on sexuality and wholeness; Judeo-Christian teaching on sex and sexuality; distorted sexuality (types) and the effect of that
2. Chastity: definition; relationship to sexuality and integrity
3. Sexual intercourse: definition; proper expression is where?
4. Four freedoms necessary for intercourse to be the intimate experience it was meant to be
5. Sojourner Truth
Chapter 7
1. Love: definition; types; why is it a challenge? Lifeskills needed to love?
Chapter 8
1. Friendship: definition; Buber’s “I—Thou” relationship and philosophy; how to end friendships
2. Five qualities of genuine friendship
3. Levels of friendship
4. Types of intimacy
Chapter 9
1. Communication: definition; What blocks it and what keeps it open?; body language (definition; role and importance)
2. Listening: guidelines; why is it important? How to make a Reflective Listening response
3. “I” versus “You”messages (know what they are) How to make an “I Statement”
4. Aggressiveness, Assertiveness, Non-Assertive: what are they? Their roles in communication?
5. Conflicts: how to handle them
Chapter 10
1. Basis and foundation of dating; role of hope and expectations in dating?
2. Romance and infatuation—definitions and problems in dating?
3. Effects of jealousy, dependence, and exclusivity in a true friendship
4. Pre-marital sex: definition; consequences; Church teaching on it?
5. How to end a relationship?
Chapter 11
1. Opportunities and challenges of single life2. How and why is it a valued vocational lifestyle?
3. Jean Donovan, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day.
Chapter 12.
1. Why is cohabitation not right according to Church teaching? What does the research say?
2. 19 areas to communicate about before and during marriage (be familiar with; you do not need to memorize them all)
3. Purposes of marriage (6 of them)
4. Annulment; divorce: what are they? How are they different?
5. Engagement: purpose of it? Marriage preparation programs: why? role/effect?
6. Why is marriage a covenant relationship? Why does it require maturity, responsibility and competency?
7. Tribunal.
Chapter 14
1. What are religious orders? Why and how did they develop?
2. What are the essential elements of religious life?
3. Religious vows: what are they? Why are they called evangelical counsels? What is celibacy?
4. Means of discerning a call to religious life