Ready-to-Use Conflict Resolution Activities for Secondary Students [Paperback]

This practical resource gives counselors, coaches, and youth leaders a program for training secondary students in conflict resolution and peer mediation. Activities use typical adolescent scenarios and role-plays with reproducible handouts to make the skills involved in resolving conflicts relevant and accessible to students of all ability levels.PART ONE.

Section One: Defining Conflict.

1 Problem Characteristics.

2 Conflict and Underlying Needs.

3 Identifying the Problems: Against the Wall.

Section Two: Different Kinds of Conflict.

4 Kinds of Conflict.

5 Identifying a Conflict Within a Class.

6 Analyzing an Intergroup Conflict.

7 Sifting Through a Complex Conflict.

Section Three: Dealing With Conflict.

8 Learning About Conflict Management Styles.

9 Describing Conflict Management Styles: Spots on the Wall .

10 Exploring Where Styles are Learned.

11 Listening to Other Approaches.

12 About Styles.

13 Which Style Will Work?

14 Observing Styles.

15 Advocating Peaceful Conflict Resolution.

Section Four: Understanding Different Points of View.

16 Viewing Pictures Differently.

17 Looking Through Our Own Glasses.

18 Looking at Symbols: Power or Poison.

19 Exploring Hot Buttons.

20 Listening to Another Point of View.

21 Exploring Cross-cultural Miscommunication.

22 Exploring Attitudes Toward Clothing.

23 Exploring Cultural Points of View.

24 Seeing the Same Event Through Different Eyes.

25 Sifting Through an Argument.

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