Appendix 1 – Focus group and interview questions
Young people
- What do you think young people want to get out of having a relationship?
- Where do you learn about relationships?
- Where do you go and/or who do you go to if you have a relationship issue?
- What are effective ways to support young people with relationship issues? What works and what doesn’t?
- What sort of support or information about relationships do you want from your parents and/or other people in your family?
Additional prompts:
- Consider the four key settings within which young people live: school; parents, siblings and wider family members, whānau; peers; community including media (TV, movies, magazines), texting, social networking, internet, gaming, service-providers, church, sports clubs etc.
- Are different things appropriate at different ages, or for boys and girls?
- What are the top three relationship issues for young people?
Parents and whānau
- Where do young people learn about relationships?
- What skills and information do you think teenagers need so they can develop healthy relationships? Are different things appropriate at different ages?
- Who should have the responsibility to teach teenagers about relationships?
- What are effective ways to support young people with relationship issues? What works and what doesn’t?
- Do you think parents find it difficult to talk about relationship issues with teenagers? Why?
- What would help to make you feel more confident to talk with your teenager about relationship issues?
Professionals working with young people
- Where do young people learn about relationships?
- What skills and information do you think teenagers need so they can develop healthy relationships? Are different things appropriate at different ages?
- Who should have the responsibility to teach teenagers about relationships?
- What are effective ways to support young people with relationship issues? What works and what doesn’t?