Importance of CYP learning to resolve conflict for themselves
Everyone experiences conflict throughout their lives from a young age. This can be with siblings, friends, family, teachers, colleagues, partners and neighbours. It is important for children and young people to learn how to deal with conflict early in life as they won’t always have people observing and controlling conflicts within a safe environment.
It is a valuable social skill that they need to learn to develop with maturity. It improves their problem solving abilities, self-confidence, resilience, negotiation skills, communication skills, social skills and promotes independence, self-control and empathy. Developing their conflict resolution skills also gives them the opportunity to self-reflect on previous conflicts that they’ve had.
As the young people I work with are already in their early-teens it is vital that if they haven’t already grasped this skill when they arrive, that we need to work extra hard to undo their current default method when faced with conflict (which can be shouting, swearing, violence towards people and/or objects, truanting to avoid the other person, escalating it by broadcasting the conflict publicly on social media) so that they are more prepared for the ‘real world’ when they leave us.
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