The increasingly confrontational way in which young people deal with problems both in and out of school testifies to the extraordinary need for conflict resolution education. Educators, psychologists, and health educators argue that negative, antisocial, and self-destructive behaviour patterns are established early, and that the best way to deal with such behaviours is to prevent them before they start. Children can learn to express their feelings and handle their frustrations creatively and constructively, without resorting to violence. This series is designed to help students develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviours needed to prevent, defuse, and resolve conflict. The materials are designed to form part of a comprehensive health education curriculum and are intended to show young people that they have many choices for dealing with conflict situations besides passivity or aggression.
Students learn to analyze conflict situations.
They develop and practice skills to make constructive choices when they are faced with conflict situations. The project is also designed to support teachers engaged in conflict resolution education. The purposes of this program are to explore angry feelings and to demonstrate positive ways of dealing with anger. Supporting print for this video series is available from Media Group. The purposes of this program are to discover the connection between body language and emotions and to learn how to express feelings to others.