Chapter 14 Resolving Conflicts and Preventing Violence

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Chapter 14Resolving Conflicts and Preventing
Violence

• Lesson 1
• The Nature of Conflict
• p. 316

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Health Terms

• Conflict
• Interpersonal conflict
• Internal conflict
• Escalate

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Types of Conflict

• Any disagreement, struggle, or fight.
• Interpersonal conflict
• Teen disagreements
• Spending community funds
• Internal conflicts
• Mixed emotions
• Loyalty vs responsibility
• Decision-making model

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How Conflicts Build

• A fuse is ignited
• Power Jealousy
• Property Loyalty
• Authority Territory
• Innocently accidentally bumping another
• Purposefully an act or remark that
  provokes

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How Conflicts Build contd

• Lack of communication
• Misunderstanding
• Gossip

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Recognizing Conflict

• You can identify the problem and its source by
  asking yourself the following questions
• What is really bothering me and why?
• Is this a minor, a chronic, or a major problem?
• What is triggering the conflict?
• Are there hurt feelings or other unexplored
  emotions lurking beneath my anger?
• Have anyones rights been violated?
• What is my part in the problem?
• Does this conflict involve my personal values or
  beliefs?
• What is at stake here?

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Responding to Conflict

• Fight or Flight
• you can either face it or ignore it.
• The 2 most important points to remember
• Your personal health and safety should be your
  primary concern.
• Walking away is a healthful, mature choice-not a
  sign of weakness.

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Chapter 14Resolving Conflicts and Preventing
Violence

• Lesson 2
• Conflict Resolution Skills
• p. 320

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Health Terms

• Conflict resolution
• Tolerance
• Negotiations
• Mediation
• Peer mediators
• Confidentiality

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Conflict Resolution

• The process of ending a conflict by cooperating
  and problem solving together.
• Involves many interpersonal skills
• THE 3 Cs THE 3 Rs
• Communication Respect
• Cooperation Rights
• Compromise Responsibility

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Conflict Resolution contd

• Respect you show you value each one as an
  individual
• More likely to get respect in return
• Rights
• No one owns anyone or their property
• No right to control, destroy, or harm another
• Privacy
• Responsibility
• For your own actions
• What is your part in the conflict?

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Conflict Resolution contd

• Tolerance
• is important in
• Preventing Conflict
• Promoting Peace

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Negotiating

• Talking
• Listening
• Consider the other persons point of view
• Compromise if necessary
• Devising a plan to resolve the conflict

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Negotiating contd

• Steps to Take
• Choose a time and place conducive to working out
  the problem.
• Work together at a solution.
• Keep an open mind.
• Be flexible.
• Take responsibility for your own actions and role
  in the conflict.
• Give the person an out.

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Mediation

• The mediator asks each person to, in turn, to
  describe the disagreement.
• The mediator then summarizes both cases and asks
  for clarification.
• Each side is then invited to talk to the other
  WITH mediator supervision.
• Both parties may be asked to sign an agreement to
  work out the problem within a time frame.

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Chapter 14Resolving Conflicts and Preventing
Violence

• Lesson 3
• Strategies for Avoiding Violence
• p. 324

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Health Terms

• Violence
• Homicide
• Assailant
• Random Violence
• Aggravated Assault
• Carjackings

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Violence in Society

• 1996 - 6,548 people ages 15-24 were homicide
  victims.
• For every violent death, there at least 100
  nonfatal injuries caused by violence.

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Violence in Society contd

• Why Violence?
• A result of an unsuccessful attempt to resolve a
  conflict.
• Victim knows assailant
• Crimes of hate
• Prejudice of race, ethnicity, or gender
• Frustration and anger
• Poverty or lack of opportunity
• Usually by robberies or theft
• Others may be killed or injured
• Random
• Innocent by-standers are injured
• Often times it is against homeless

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Violence and Teens

• 1996 - 14.8 of students have been in fights on
  school property one or more times.
• Ages15-34 - have a significantly higher rate of
  violence than any other age group.
• EVERY DAY nearly 16,000 crimes take place in or
  near schools.

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Teens and Violence contd

• What?
• Fights
• Attacks
• Shootings
• Gang involvement

• Where?
• Classrooms
• Restrooms
• Hallways
• Locker rooms
• School grounds

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Factors Affecting Violence

• Availability of weapons
• Territoriality
• Media
• Substance Abuse

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Stopping and Preventing Violence

• Academic after-school programs
• Sports
• Camping programs

• Video production programs
• Arts
• Business intervening with internships

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What You Can Do

• Avoid guns, alcohol, and other drugs
• Resist becoming a member of a gang
• Learn and practice the skills of communication
  and conflict resolution
• Work at building your self-esteem
• Limit you exposure to media that promote and
  glamorize violence and prejudice
• Help those who are younger to follow positive
  examples

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Chapter 14Resolving Conflicts and Preventing
Violence

• Lesson 4
• Preventing Abuse
• p. 330

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Health Terms

• abuse
• rape
• sexual assault

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Types of Abuse

• children
• teens
• adults
• senior adults

• ALL economic
• ALL racial
• ALL ethnic
• LINES

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Types of Abuse contd

• Physical Abuse
• slapping
• kicking
• biting
• burning
• shaking
• beating
• other acts of violence

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Types of Abuse contd

• Physical Abuse contd
• According to AMA 2-4 million women in the US are
  assaulted by their partner
• 30 of US women report having been abused at some
  point of their life
• 1/3 of women abused in adulthood grew up in homes
  where the mother was abused 20were abused as
  children
• 34 of Americans witness an incident of domestic
  violence

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Types of Abuse contd

• Sexual Abuse
• silent violent epidemic
• forcing a person to engage in sexual activities
  or sexual advances
• adult toward an adult
• adult toward a teen
• adult toward a child

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Types of Abuse contd

• Sexual Abuse contd
• 61 of sexual abuse victims are female under the
  age of 18
• 5 of the time, males are the victims
• 75 of sexual attacks, the victim knows the
  assailant
• 700,000 women in the US are sexually assaulted
  each year
• Up to 80,000 child sexual abuse cases reported
  unreported far exceed this number
• Sexual Abuse does NOT always involve intercourse

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Types of Abuse contd

• Abuse in Dating Relationships
• dominant treatment mistaken as caring
• jealousy confused with love
• caring involves
• kindness
• gentleness
• respect

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Types of Abuse contd

• Rape and Date Rape
• ANYTIME intercourse occurs when 1 person does not
  agree
• nearly 1/2 rape cases go unreported
• Crucial for victim to act quickly to contact
  police and go to a hospital for an evaluation

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How to Avoid Abuse

• Recognize
• Resist
• Report

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Help for Victims of Abuse

• report abuse
• doctors and other health professionals must
  report suspicion of abuse
• if a teens is in, has been, or knows of abusive
  situations should talk with a trusted adult
• counseling for victims and families

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Help for the Abuser

• often, abusers were victims themselves
• because of this, they too need help to stop the
  re-occurance