Date Approved
7-31-2024
Graduate Degree Type
Project
Degree Name
Education-School Counseling (M.Ed.)
Degree Program
Education Leadership & Counseling
First Advisor
Sherie Klee
Academic Year
2023/2024
Abstract
Many students lack conflict resolution skills. According to Çeviker, Kağan, and Akıllı when faced with a conflict, students often react to conflict with anger, aggression, and avoidance. However, implementation of social emotional programs within school setting proves strategies, such as peer mediation and other programs reduce “obliging and avoiding behaviors” (Çeviker et al, 2019). Most importantly, the development of conflict resolution skills helps students to develop traits needed to adapt to future life situations. These traits consist of the development of social and individual qualities, such as resiliency and emotional tolerance when faced with conflict, in combination with, the development of problem-solving skills (Çeviker et al, 2019). Therefore, the overall issue with students who lack conflict resolution skills is that they usually lack positive interpersonal qualities that are needed throughout life. Thus, as educators, it is their professional responsibility to help students identify the different emotions they experience and equip them with appropriate strategies that will promote prosocial behaviors. This support can be provided through the creation of a school system where teachers, counselors, and parents contribute to the process of training the adolescent how to regulate their emotions by exercising conflict resolution strategies that positively support their social emotional and academic needs.
ScholarWorks Citation
Turnbow, Adrianne, "An Examination of the Importance of Developing Conflict Resolution Skills within Adolescence" (2024). Culminating Experience Projects. 455.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gradprojects/455
