Anger Control and Conflict Management for Kids

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Susanna Palomares & Terri Akin

Ready-to-use lessons and dozens of reproducible student worksheets designed to help K-6 students learn skills for anger management and successful conflict resolution.

Anger and conflict are natural. We all get angry and we all get involved in conflicts. But, learning how to manage these issues and developing positive responses can be hard work. This book provides guidance, sound ideas, and engaging activities to help teachers and counselors give their children lifelong techniques for working with and working through anger and conflict.Get students to take responsibility for settling their own disputes!

Student-tested activities help children to:

• understand the dynamics of conflict
• manage anger and aggression
• improve communication skills
• examine cause and effect
• appreciate different perspectives
• develop tolerance
• distinguish between the language of conflict and peaceful conflict resolution
• achieve win-win outcomes.

Step-by-step procedures, discussion prompts and culminating questions are included with every activity.

Table of Contents

Helping Children Deal Constructively with Anger and Conflict

• How the Guide is Organized
• How to Use the Activities

Theory and Background

• Children and Resiliency
• Self Awareness
• Social Interaction
• Mastery
• Anger, Conflict, and Awareness
• Anger, Conflict, and Social Interaction
• Anger, Conflict, and Mastery

Conflict Management Strategies

• Conflict and Role Playing
• What Is Role Playing?
• The Sharing Circle and Role-Play Process—How It’s Done
• Your Role as Leader

Group Activities

• Identifying Feelings
• Using Puppets to Express Feelings
• Positive Endings
• Danny’s Big Game
• How Was Joey Feeling?
• Learning to Work Together
• Donor Dollars
• It Takes Two Hands
• What Do You See?
• What Makes Good Friends?
• I Feel Anger
• Learning to Control My Anger
• Thinking About My Anger
• How Listening Lowers Anger
• Learning to Make I-Statements
• The Big Mistake
• A Grumpy Day
• What’s Bugging You?
• The Behaviors of Conflict
• The Language of Conflict
• The Cause and Effect of Conflict
• The Other Side of the Story
• Understanding the Other Point of View
• Taking the Other Point of View
• Learning Conflict Resolution Strategies
• Cooling Off
• All About Endings
• Tell A Story In Pictures

Journal Writing: Tips for Adult Leaders

Sharing Circle and Role-Pay Process: Guidelines for Leaders

Sharing Circle and Role Play Topics

• A Time When Someone Wouldn’t Listen to Me
• Something That Really Bothers Me
• I Observed a Conflict
• A Time Someone Put Me Down But I Handled It Well
• Something I Didn’t Mean to Say or Do That Made Somebody Mad at Me
• A Time Someone Took Something Away From Me
• A Time When Something I Thought Was Funny Made Someone Else Mad
• A Time When I Was Involved in a Misunderstanding
• I Was Angry at One Person, But Took It Out on Someone Else
• A Time Someone Betrayed My Trust
• I Didn’t Realize That I Had Started a Fight
• I Thought I Was Doing the Right Thing, But It Led to a Conflict
• I Got Into a Fight Because I Was Already Feeling Bad
• I Got Blamed for Something I Didn’t Do
• I Got Involved in a Conflict Because Something Unfair Was Happening to Someone Else
• A Time When I Couldn’t Understand Someone Else’s Point of View
• A Good Idea I Got for Handling a Conflict from Someone in This Group

Primary Subject Area – Conflict Management

Grades K-6, 134 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback, reproducibles