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Zero tolerance provides zero learning
In today's culture where bullying and violence are on the rise, we know that children who are afraid or anxious are in no state of mind to learn. If you are serious about creating a safe school climate conducive to learning, this book will show you how. Written by counseling experts, Safe and Peaceful Schools provides a variety of research-based techniques to help students, school counselors, psychologists, administrators, and other educators develop conflict resolution skills that reduce the need for disciplinary action. Each chapter addresses a mode of practice for constructing peaceful interactions, including: Peer mediation; Narrative counseling; Circle conversations; Undercover anti-bullying teams; “Facing up to violence” groups; Restorative conferences
Included are vignettes, dialogues, sample activities, agendas, and charts. Conflict is inevitable. Teaching students how to deal with it constructively will help them learn the tools they need to succeed at school and in life.
Counseling
Counseling
What's in This Chapter?
- Counseling in Schools Is About Learning, Not Cure
- Conflict Coaching
- Narrative Conflict Coaching
- A Case Vignette
- Deconstructing Rules
- Responding to Trauma
- Summary
Counseling in Schools Is About Learning, Not Cure
Much of the work of conflict resolution needs to take place in conversations between people. If conflict is a relational phenomenon, then it makes sense that conflict resolution needs to focus on the relational dimensions of people's lives. But that is not to say that much conflict resolution work cannot be done through counseling individuals. Students in schools can fruitfully talk over with a counselor how they are going to approach a relational context, either to avoid a full-blown conflict emerging or to address one that has already arisen.
It is necessary, however, to pause and consider just what ...
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