Peers To Peer Conflict Resolution Group

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The purpose of Peer to Peer (P2P) Conflict Resolution Group is to offer transformative crisis prevention help to adolescent males and females between the ages of 13 and 17, who experience conflict and coping issues with their peers. The proposal is being presented with an awareness that adolescents need programs that will provide them with the essential tools necessary to foster healthy relationships with individuals their age, so they can learn to build and maintain a firm foundation of support with peers who can provide positive friendships, trust, and closeness. As adolescents grow older into their teenage years, they begin to explore life more independently and spend more time networking and participating in activities with their friends …show more content…

In addition to having the obligation to instruct students in core subject areas, teachers are also burdened with the daunting daily task of monitoring and modifying behavioral issues that arise between their students. According to Troop-Gordon (2015), author of “The Role of the Classroom Teacher in the Lives of Children Victimized by Peers. Child Development Perspectives,” teachers are tasked with recognizing the peer dynamics of their students, with understanding how to foster good peer to peer relationships that create a positive environment and promotes positive student interpersonal skills – while also directly intervening in peer conflicts among students to prevent ongoing peer victimization that could cause negative risks to children’s emotional health and school adjustment. Being over-worked and grossly under-paid, and having to multitask in so many areas daily, can have a negative impact on teachers’ personal welfare and self-care over a long period of time. Hence, educational programs are needed to help fill the basic social needs of students outside the classroom to alleviate the some of the conflict that arises. Such programs would allow teachers to have more time to focus on teaching instead of getting involved in student disturbances or trying to brainstorm for positive interventions to help break an ongoing conflict cycle that exists among …show more content…

It can potentially produce increased verbal reaction and non-verbal expressions and change in body language among participants, and because it can help participants clarify their goals through visual and practical scales, which can help evoke positive talk. Because the Peer to Peer Conflict Resolution Group is a psychoeducational group dealing with issues of conflict and problem-solving, SFBT would be the perfect theoretical approach due to its focus on what is working instead of identifying problems. Individuals who participate in the group already understand that their behaviors are already potentially receiving negative interactions from other individuals. Therefore, it would bring no value to their learning experience if focus is placed on what they are doing wrong, but the focal point of the group can be built on foundational values – and exploring positive solutions to negative behaviors, using the things they are already doing

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