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Conflict
Management Education: Essential Skills for Living The skills needed to manage life's conflicts are critical to functioning in a complex and shrinking world. Young people moving through the high school years are at the threshold of adult life, ready to move to higher education, the workplace and independence from family and home. Many people think of conflict as the ultimate negative experience and attempt to avoid it at all costs, but conflict is the gateway to personal growth as well as the chance to improve relationships that satisfy and challenge us as human beings. Read more...
Interactive
Multimedia-Enhanced Courseware on the Internet: Toward the Development
of Experimentally Evaluated Psychological Education Curricula Several multimedia-enhanced, psychological education courses that are capable of Internet delivery have been developed at Arizona State University and at KnowConflict, LLC. These interactive interventions have evolved from earlier work on simulations and computer-based learning; however, they incorporate recent technological advances and current psychological research in areas such as differential diagnosis, observational learning, and cognitive restructuring. They focus, respectively, on changing the irrational beliefs that mediate low self-esteem and occupational stereotyping, educating parents on practices affecting the career outcomes of their children, altering attributions relevant to academic motivation and performance, and enhancing the conflict management skills of our nationšs youth. All have been subjected to continuing conceptual and empirical scrutiny. Read more...
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