Research Topic: A literature review evaluating techniques for teaching conflict resolution to teenagers.
Many young people are caught up in conflicts every day that they do not know how to manage. Juvenile delinquency and violence are symptoms of youth's inability to manage conflict in their lives. Teaching youth how to manage conflict is a productive way can help reduce incidents of violent behavior. The prevention of conflict has become a necessary endeavor.
There is a push to extend programs beyond the boundaries that are set by education. A need as surfaced for programs that include counseling, support, therapeutic interventions aimed at providing adolescents with coping skills to ward off alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and lifestyle choices that deviate from violence (Puskar et al., 1997).
The following research questions will be focused on in this study:
Which conflict resolution program was most effective in
reducing the number of violent acts committed by teenagers?
Which techniques did teenagers find most effective in
What are some of the guidelines teenagers use when
II. Review of the Research Literature
This project will be designed to evaluate research
previously conducted on conflict resolution programs.
Research that has been conducted on these programs has
resulted in positive outcomes on increasing conflict
Violence is a daily reality for most adolescents.
They experience it within their homes and surrounding
communities, and witness it on television and the movies.
When this exposure to violence is combined with a lack of
modeling of non-violent conflict resolution skills from
either within the family and/or other social groups in the
community, it can lead many teenagers to dismiss the
initiative to avoid the use of violence. It can also
instill a lack of motivation to learn skills necessary for
peaceful res...