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Anger Management |
Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation |
Adolescent Perpetrator or High-Risk Youth Intervention |
| What is the emphasis of the intervention? |
- Anger management teaches students to define, recognize, and control their own anger. Violence is seen as a momentary outburst of anger.
- Feeling angry at times is normal, but acting out anger in appropriate ways is not. Anger management focuses on alternative ways of behaving in response to anger.
- Techniques such as identifying "triggers", using time outs, relaxation, and positive self-talk to control anger are taught.
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- Conflict resolution education is a learning process that helps individuals understand conflict dynamics and empowers them to use communication and creative thinking to manage and resolve conflicts fairly and peacefully. Students are taught to use assertive communication, rather than passive or aggressive communication. Both parties assume responsibility for the conflict, and work toward the goal of reaching mutually acceptable compromises.
- Mediation is a process for resolving disputes and conflicts in which a neutral third party acts as a moderator for the process. In mediation, the goal is to work out differences constructively. Mediators help the parties in conflict identify ways to solve the conflict. A key component to any mediation process is letting each person tell his or her own story and then to feel as if someone understands his/her perspective.
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- Intervention programs recognize that dating violence is based on one person's desire to exert power and control over another through physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse.
- Intervention programs examine how sexism and traditional gender roles can both reinforce and perpetuate gender-based violence.
- Intervention programs teach adolescents how to recognize their abuse and to practice alternatives to their abusive behavior.
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| Who is served by the program? |
- Perpetrators of stranger and non-intimate violence.
- Youth who are identified as having poor impulse control.
- Youth who are generally disruptive in school.
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- Two individuals or groups of people who have a conflict which they are hoping to resolve through negotiation, compromise, and communication.
- The people in conflict agree to the terms of mediation, in order to help them to find a fair and acceptable non-violent solution to their problem.
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- Adolescent males who have perpetrated physical, emotional, or sexual abuse against a female family member, teacher, peer, or dating partners.
- An adolescent male who has a 209A restraining order against him.
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| Where are programs designed to provide services? |
- Programs can be school-based or community-based
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- Peer mediation programs are primarily school-based; students are trained to become mediators for their classmates.
- Conflict resolution programs are primarily school-based programs; they can be skill-based classroom units, or modeled after peer leadership programs where students are trained to help classmates resolve conflicts peacefully.
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- Groups can be held in schools or at community sites. Groups may be voluntary, and are comprised primarily of boys who have exhibited behaviors identifying them as being at-risk of perpetrating abuse.
- Other groups are mandated, and are designed for males who have perpetrated abuse and are mandated by the court or a school to attend an intervention group.
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| Are service providers trained in teen dating violence? |
- Subject to agency discretion
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- Subject to agency discretion
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- Yes, anyone providing direct services to adolescent perpetrators is required to complete 24 hours of training on working with adult perpetrators at a certified site, and 16 hours of training on working with adolescent perpetrators at a certified site.
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