Ready-To-Use Conflict Resolution Activities for Secondary Students Tapa blanda - 2001 - 1st Edición

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What is conflict? In a word, conflict is a "clash," a disagreement between two or more parties.

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For counselors, teachers, or anyone else working with teenagers, this practical resource provides more than 90 ready-to-use lessons for teaching peaceful and successful ways of resolving conflict, including activities with typical adolescent scenarios and nearly 150 reproducible role-plays.

For easy use, these materials are conveniently organized into three parts and printed in a large 8-1/4" x 11" lay-flat binding that opens flat for easy photocopying as many times as needed.

PART I covers the basic concepts of conflict resolution. Here's just a sampling of activities and accompanying handouts you?ll find in each of the seven sections:

• Defining Conflict: Identifying the problem and underlying needs of two parties? Homework From the New Student?The Brothers? Car
• Different Kinds of Conflict: Four types of conflict?inner, interpersonal, intra-personal, and inter-group?Identifying the Conflict Within a Class
• Dealing with Conflict: Conflict management styles...Which Style Will Work?
• Understanding Different Points of View: Viewing situations differently? Looking Through Our Own Glasses
• Communicating: Open-ended questions, paraphrasing, toning down language, ?I? statements, and more, to defuse anger in others?Reading Non-Verbal Cues?Noticing Mixed Messages
• Collaborative Problem Solving: The process of defining, brainstorming, and choosing alternatives? Cooperation vs. Competition
• Mediating: Techniques of involving a third party, identifying interests, and mediating with a group?Dora Spills the Beans?Quarrel with the Quarterback

• Conflict in the Counselor's Office: A seven-step process for mediating a dispute between two parties, distinguishing mediation from counseling?Two Chairs?From the Other Chair
• Conflict Resolution in the Classroom: Teaching the concepts in academic classes?Yugoslavia and China?King Lear's Problems
• Conflict Resolution in Extra-Curricular Activities: Practice in settling conflicts?Dealing with a Difficult Colleague? Encouraging Nonviolence

In short, this unique resource gives you a complete program for helping students develop the conflict management skills they will need and use long after they have left your classroom!