1. Mental & Emotional Health
Interpersonal Conflicts

2. Grading
Participation grade of 28 points

3. Action Plan
Take a moment to reflect on the step you planned out for meeting your goal.

4. Student Knowledge Expectation: You will be able to…
Analyze strategies for managing and reducing interpersonal conflicts.1

5. Interpersonal conflicts are when you have some type of argument or disagreement with someone else or a group of people.
Throughout your teenage years, you will most likely have interpersonal conflicts with friends, peers, family members, school staff, and community members.

6. Defusing Conflict Model2

7. Negotiation Skills Model2

8. Tips for Managing and Resolving Interpersonal Conflict
Go to Helpguide.org3 and take brief notes on the six tips for managing and resolving conflict.
We will discuss these tips later.

15. Best & Questionable
Based on the models and six tips3 we just went over, explain which one you think is the best strategy and which one you think is the most questionable strategy.
Remember, this is about you.

17. Student Skill Expectation: You will be able to…
Demonstrate effective communication strategies to prevent, manage, or resolve interpersonal conflict.1

18. Effective Communication
By yourself or up to a group of three, film role plays that demonstrate how to prevent, manage, or resolve an interpersonal conflict.
Each person needs to be the main character demonstrating these skills at least once.

19. Effective Communication
Decide on the situation and who you are having a conflict with (i.e. family member, peer, or boyfriend/girlfriend).
Use the defusing conflict and negotiation models, along with the six tips2 in your role play.
Film them on someone’s cell phone and show me when you are done.

20. Student Knowledge Expectation: You will be able to…
Evaluate effective strategies for dealing with difficult relationships with family members, peers, and boyfriends or girlfriends.1

21. Evaluating Strategies
Now that you have had a chance to put strategies for resolving interpersonal conflicts into practice (i.e. your role plays), it’s important that we be able to evaluate the effectiveness of those strategies for use in real life.

22. Evaluating Strategies
Evaluating something means to determine how well it worked and will work in the future.
You are going to evaluate how well the models and six tips2 worked for you in your role plays and will work for you in real life.

23. Evaluating Strategies
Now that you had a chance to demonstrate effective communication strategies, reflect on your role plays.
Evaluate which was the best and most questionable strategy.

25. References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Internet]. Adolescent and School Health, Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT). c2012– [cited 2013 Jan 15]. Available from:
RMCHealth.org (2018). Defusing Conflect/Negotiation Skills. Retrieved from XiZiGLLg0JX8R5qmsL9mQ6ZN/view

26. References
HelpGuide.org. (2017). Conflict Resolution Skills. Retrieved from communication/conflict-resolution-skills.htm?pdf=true