ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at simple ways to teach students a healthy relationship mindset. It explores how to find the best in others and ideas to interact that are friendly and balanced. Maintaining healthy relationships throughout health professionals' life rates highest on global happiness, well-being, overall health and resilience indicators. As social connection is a primary indicator of happiness, teaching young people how to have healthy relationships with others is crucial. Young people with healthy, rational optimism are less fixated on judging differences and more focused on seeing another person's strengths and finding ways to connect with them. A person with a negative or hopeless mindset might see a newcomer as a threat to their position in a group, or because of a natural tendency to find fault in others, struggle to build friendships unless the other person is entirely agreeable with their values, beliefs and attitudes.
