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Bringing an End to Bullying
Agree to Agree: What is Bullying? A priority for lawmakers in the past decade has been to define bullying (unwanted aggressive behavior repeated over time that involves an imbalance of power) in legal terms. Because of these efforts, 49 states now have anti-bullying laws on the books. Rather, placing observant teachers in the hallways between classes, trained recess aides on the playground at recess, knowledgeable monitors on the buses before and after school, and astute food-service workers in the cafeteria are ways to reduce an aggressive child's opportunity to act.
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The Passive Aggressive Conflict Cycle
Understanding the Passive Aggressive Conflict Cycle (PACC) helps observers to be able to look beyond behavior and better understand what is occurring beneath the surface. This article presents a real-life example of a seemingly minor conflict between a teacher and child that elicited an apparent major overreaction by the adult. Also provided is a breakdown of the five stages of the PACC. Understanding and insight into the repetitive nature of the PACC can help adults disengage from destructive conflicts and choose relationship building responses.
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When Friendship Is Used as a Weapon: Using Life Space Crisis Intervention Skills to Confront Bullying
Bullying has received international attention since the pioneering research over thirty years ago by Scandinavian psychologist Dan Olweus (1978). While prevention programs have proliferated, this article charts new ground by applying Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) to bullying in an example involving young girls. The author describes how girls benefit from having a supportive network of trustworthy adults who are informed about the nature of girl bullying and open to meaningful dialogue about real friendship. Though lingering social norms may still discourage girls from acknowledging conflict directly, adults can help kids rise above these damaging constraints by teaching them practical skills for expressing anger in constructive ways and giving them new insights to readily recognize incidents of cruelty disguised as friendship.
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Too Conscientious: \It's My Fault, They Are Going to Fire the Teachers\
A high school student with a learning disability struggles under intense pressure to meet standards of a state's standardized testing. Fearing that his failure will cause teachers to be fired, he acts out in ways to be punished. This interview shows how valuable it is to drain off intense emotions and make sense of a situation following a student's crisis.
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LSCI Skills for Parents
LSCI views conflicts or stressful incidents as opportunities for learning, growth, insight, and change. Since 1991, the LSCI Institute has been offering trainings for professionals who work with troubled and troubling kids in schools and treatment organizations. The LSCI Skills for Parents training: * Defines how LSCI uses problems as learning opportunities for young people * Describes the Conflict Cycle(TM) and the adult's role in feeding or breaking the cycle * Explains the use of Drain Off and Timeline in avoiding power struggles and supporting children This training provides participants with a roadmap through parent-child conflict, using problems as opportunities to teach new coping skills, model positive behaviors, and form more positive relationships with kids.
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Intervention LSCI Skills for Parents
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) is a set of skills that helps adults turn problem situations into learning opportunities for kids. LSCI views conflicts or stressful incidents as opportunities for learning, growth, insight, and change. This training provides parents with tools for building positive relationships with their children and communicating respectfully without sparking conflict. It provides participants with a road map through parent-child conflict, using problems as opportunities to teach new coping skills, model positive behaviors, and form more positive relationships with kids. Parenting with the skills of LSCI involves employing mature, purposeful responses during conflict situations. Effective responses are driven by a thorough understanding of the differences in psychological worlds between a trained, rationally-minded parent and a reactive, emotionally-driven child. The first part of the LSCI Skills for Parents training examines the unique ways in which young people perceive, think, feel, and behave during stressful situations. In doing so, parents learn that there are significant differences in how adults and children process events, especially in and around crisis and conflict. An awareness of these basic differences gives parents important insights into why kids sometimes behave in troubling ways. LSCI Skills for Parents is one of the few programs available in which participants move beyond just theoretical principles and are given hands-on opportunities to both practice new skills and strategies and get feedback from their peers.
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From Self-Destruction to Self-Awareness: A Massaging Numb Values LSCI
In this intervention, Anne, a 15-year-old girl in residential treatment, is helped to sort out her conflicted feelings of anger and attraction to a female staff member. Through the Massaging Numb Values Reclaiming Intervention, she finds more productive ways of expressing emotions and managing her interactions with the staff person. (Author)
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Checking Passive Aggression
Everyone has a funny story about the egregious passive-aggressive actions of a mother-in-law, spouse or friend. While irritating, the behavior usually isn't costly. In many workplace settings, though, passive-aggressive employees can sabotage deadlines, morale and productivity. It is critical for managers to recognize passive aggression before it affects efficiency. Passive-aggressive people usually lack assertiveness and are not direct with supervisors about their needs. They fail to ask questions about what is expected of them and may become anxious under pressure. Passive aggression is a deliberate and masked way of expressing hidden anger. In the workplace, passive-aggressive behavior can manifest itself in one or more of these ways: 1. temporary compliance, 2. intentional inefficiency, 3. letting a problem escalate, and 4. hidden but conscious revenge. When managers understand the signs and recognize patterns, they can protect themselves and other employees from being unwitting victims of this office crime.
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