Teen Health Course 2

Chapter 7: Resolving Conflicts and Preventing Violence

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Lesson 2

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1. Conflict not a conflict when you stop it before it starts.
2. You can keep your anger from boiling over by taking deep breaths, counting to 10, keeping your voice low and slow, thinking before you react, or leaving.
3. The tone is the mood or feeling of the talk
4. Everyone should tell his/her side of the story so that you can decide together what the real issues are.
5. You should ask for help from another person if you can’t talk, don’t trust one another, or think the problem might turn into a fight.

Additional Resources for Teachers

Conflict can sometimes be challenging for students who are faced with peer pressure, bullying, or anger management issues. Below are some sites that offer additional ways for students to learn to work on conflict in a healthy way.

1. Additional Needs: http://www.additionalneeds.net/Anger_Management/mainpage.htm
2. U.S. Department of Justice -Youth in Action: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/178999.pdf
3. American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/topics/controlanger.html

1. The most dangerous time of the day for teens is immediately after school at 3:00 p.m.
2. Some of the negative behaviors teens tend to engage in when they are unsupervised during after school hours include:
   1. Alcohol, drug, and tobacco use
   2. Risky sexual activity
   3. The use of weapons
   4. Criminal activity for which they are arrested
3. Good after school programs have been shown to:
   1. Decrease juvenile crime
   2. Decrease the likelihood that teens will be victims of violent crime
   3. Decrease teen participation in risky behaviors
   4. Lead teens to develop new skills and interests
   5. Improve teens' grades and academic achievement
   6. Encourage teens to reach higher in planning their futures
   7. Increase teens' self-confidence and social skills.
4. Things you can do to get involved and encourage your friends to get involved in after-school programs include:
   1. Ask if your school offers an after-school program.
   2. Check with local organizations about-after school programs.
   3. Check your local Yellow Pages under "Youth Organizations," "Youth Centers," or "Teen-Age Activities."
   4. Contact the national offices of youth agencies to find their local organizations.
   5. Talk to your friends and other students about what they do after school.
   6. Recruit an adult to help you make telephone calls for more information.
   7. Encourage other students to share their work in after-school programs. Publicize the work of other students.
   8. Ask to have a portion of the school newsletter devoted to news of local after-school programs.
   9. Ask the administration at your school to provide space for after-school programs.
5. Some ways to support after-school programs in your community include:
   1. Talk to friends, parents, guardians, and neighbors.
   2. Make a list everyone interested in having an after-school program that you can show to community officials.
   3. Place bulletins in your school newspaper, PTA publications, and around school.
   4. Talk with your teachers, principal, and other school staff.
   5. Contact others in your community who might be willing to lend a hand.
   6. Help organize a meeting for everyone who wants to help start an after-school program.
   7. Encourage everyone involved to give serious thought to the design of the after-school program.
   8. Read about the different types of after-school programs that have been effective.
   9. Participate regularly in an after-school program.

Additional Resources for Teachers

ow are some additional resources that provide information on violence and violence prevention. You might want to have a brainstorming session with your students about how to avoid violence after school.

1. Reconnecting Youth and Community: http://www.ncfy.com/Reconnec.htm
2. A Teens Guide to Fitting In, Getting Involved, and Finding Yourself: http://www.ncfy.com/expreng.pdf
3. Cyfernet: http://cyfernet.ces.ncsu.edu/cyfres/browse_2.php?search=Teens

Lesson 3

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1. The most dangerous time of the day for teens is immediately after school at 3:00 p.m.
2. Some of the negative behaviors teens tend to engage in when they are unsupervised during after school hours include:
   1. Alcohol, drug, and tobacco use
   2. Risky sexual activity
   3. The use of weapons
   4. Criminal activity for which they are arrested
3. Good after school programs have been shown to:
   1. Decrease juvenile crime
   2. Decrease the likelihood that teens will be victims of violent crime
   3. Decrease teen participation in risky behaviors
   4. Lead teens to develop new skills and interests
   5. Improve teens' grades and academic achievement
   6. Encourage teens to reach higher in planning their futures
   7. Increase teens' self-confidence and social skills.
4. According to the Census Department, 33% of 12-year-olds are unsupervised before or after school. 48% of 14-year-olds are left unsupervised before or after school.
5. Some ways to support after-school programs in your community include:
   1. Talk to friends, parents, guardians, and neighbors.
   2. Make a list of everyone interested in having an after-school program that you can show to community officials.
   3. Place bulletins in your school newspaper, PTA publications, and around school.
   4. Talk with your teachers, principal, and other school staff.
   5. Contact others in your community who might be willing to lend a hand.
   6. Help organize a meeting for everyone who wants to help start an after-school program.
   7. Encourage everyone involved to give serious thought to the design of the after-school program.
   8. Read about the different types of after-school programs that have been effective.
   9. Participate regularly in an after-school program.

Additional Resources for Teachers
Below are some additional resources that provide information on violence and violence prevention. You might want to have a brainstorming session with your students about how to avoid violence after school.

1. Youth Development: http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/facts/dev.asp
2. Reconnecting Youth and Community: http://www.ncfy.com/Reconnec.htm
3. A Teens Guide to Fitting In, Getting Involved, and Finding Yourself: http://www.ncfy.com/publications/expseng.htm
4. Cyfernet: http://cyfernet.ces.ncsu.edu/cyfres/browse_2.php?search=Teens