A teen-friendly friendship and relationship toolkit for reading people, trusting your feelings, navigating group chats, digital life, romantic pressure, boundaries, gaslighting, covert meanness, and knowing when to bring in trusted adult support.
Friendship Toolkit: Teen Edition is written directly to teens, with a grown-up preview section so parents, caregivers, and trusted adults know what is covered. It helps teens read patterns rather than single moments, notice feelings as data, understand healthy versus harmful dynamics, and use scripts when relationships or online situations feel off.
Want support for other ages too? This toolkit is part of the Friendship Toolkit series, with separate Tween and Adult editions for different developmental and relationship needs.
FRIENDSHIP + RELATIONSHIP TOOLKIT FOR TEENS
This toolkit gives teens language for understanding friendship patterns, group chats, social media, covert meanness, romantic pressure, gaslighting, boundaries, and when to get support.
Knowing Yourself
Covers identity, code-switching, masking, emotional information, and the cost of constant performance.
Reading Other People
Helps teens look at patterns in behavior, not just words, across in-person, texting, and group settings.
Digital Life and Online Safety
Covers group chats, social media, screenshots, online pressure, sextortion awareness, and when to involve trusted adults.
Friendships and Relationships
Names healthy, unhealthy, and harmful dynamics, including covert meanness, gaslighting, love-bombing, pressure, and situationships.
Speaking Up
Includes scripts, boundaries, exit language, and guidance for when a teen should bring a trusted adult into the situation.
This toolkit is a psychoeducational resource and is not a substitute for mental health treatment, school support services, crisis care, safety planning, legal advice, or individualized clinical guidance. If there are concerns about self-harm, abuse, coercion, sexual content involving minors, harassment, unsafe online contact, or threats of harm, involve a trusted adult or licensed professional immediately.