1. UNIT 6 SAFETY
VIOLENCE

2. ANGER MANAGEMENT
List some strategies that you can use to manage your anger.
Count to 10, focus on breathing, take a “time out”, meditation, read a book, listen to music, take a walk, exercise, talk to someone
What can be consequences of not managing your anger?
Saturday school, suspensions, legal troubles, grounded by parents, loss of friends, loss of respect, “benching” in sports, penalties, being removed from teams/groups

3. VIOLENCE
CDC Definition: “threatened or actual use of physical force or power against another person, against oneself, or against a group or community that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, or deprivation”
What types of violence can you experience as a teen?

4. What do you think? Everyone has conflicts with other people.
Conflicts cause violence.
Violence is unavoidable.
You have to stand up for yourself to get respect, even if it means fighting.
Violence is one way to solve interpersonal conflicts.
You have a responsibility to keep yourself safe and to do what you can to protect the safety of others.

5. What do you think?
Television, the Internet, movies, music, and video games do not influence interpersonal violence.
Interpersonal violence can be physical (including sexual), or emotional, non-verbal or verbal.
It takes more courage and skill to solve an interpersonal conflict than to use violence.

6. How does violence in the media affect kids?
May think it’s okay
May become desensitized & no longer be affected by it
More likely to use violence to solve problems
Can alter behavior in some children especially those who don’t have fully developed frontal lobes
Often behave differently after exposure

7. Being a bystander in a violent situation.
What is your role?
Become part of the problem, do nothing, intervene to help
How can bystanders potentially increase violence?
Showing up, cheering on, audience makes it hard for people to walk away or back down, betting, talking up a fight or passing along the word of an event happening
What can be done to diffuse the situation?
Tell someone, call for help, don’t show up, talk people out of it if you know them

8. SEXTING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Consequences: Embarrassment, trouble with parents, lose friends, bad reputation, photos may be passed on, cannot get photos back, trouble at school (suspension), legal trouble, denied participation in groups, denied honors or awards, future jobs may be jeopardized How do you deal with it now that it has happened? How can it be avoided?

9. GANGS Why do people join?
Sense of “family”, need for food or money, desire for protection, family history, peer pressure, excitement, to appear cool
What could you give as reasons to not join a gang?
Goes against values, doesn’t fulfill what I am looking for in life, activities may jeopardize my achievement goals

10. How does violence affect the following groups?
Individuals
Examples: sexual assault, dating violence, abuse
feel unsafe, feel uncared for, high stress, fear, anxiety, anger, depression, lack of trust
Families
Example: domestic abuse
hurts family harmony, less safe home, poor modeling for kids, abusive relationships, affect ability to work or keep jobs

11. How does violence affect the following groups?
Communities
Gang violence
unsafe feeling, higher crime rates, higher injury and death rates, businesses and families may not want to come to town, parents may choose schools in other towns for their kids to attend
Nation
Civil war
Economic issues, higher crime rates, higher injury and death rates, more prisons, increased police costs, higher medical costs

12. What might prevent someone from reporting a dangerous situation?
Fear of retaliation
Fear of being called a snitch
Fear of losing friends/loved ones
Fear of getting in trouble with school, law, parents
Someone is threatening or blackmailing them