Welcome to SOS (HELP!) for SSS (which stands for Self in School and Society), known on official documents like transcripts as Introduction to Psychology.  This class is taught by Anita Smith at an alternative high school in Chicago, Illinois called Lake View Academy.  (link)

SSS class makes psychology practical for young adults.

This page will display resources and activities to help students exploreTOPICS covered in SSS class.  If YOU are a nosy WEB-surfer sticking your nosy nose into this WEB site, we invite you to read and participate, but we cannot give you high school credits and nice grades like we give our own students.  SORRY!

Homework Central

Anger Management

• What is anger?

• Where does it come from?

• Why does it have to be managed?

• How can I (people) manage my (their) anger?

• How are these (items below) related to anger?
• gangs
• crime
• violence
• abuse
• guns

 

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Conflict resolution

(These ideas are taken from a book by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg called Compassionate Communication.)

When two people are having a conflict and wish to resolve it, here are some steps for them to follow.  If one or both persons are inexperienced with the resolution steps, they need a helper or mentor to work with them.
 

• Each person should meet alone with the mentor first to go through these steps.
• Go to a private space with the mentor.
• Mentor needs to be someone you feel you can respect and trust.
• You need to feel safe with the mentor.
• What happens between you and the mentor will be kept confidential.


Here are the steps to go through:
 

• First, discuss the conflict briefly, so the mentor and you both know what happened.
• "Own" your own behavior. This means, admit what YOU did or said.  You say, I did that...  or I said that...
• With your mentor, think of one request you want to make of the other person.  This should be a realistic request, and should say what you want the person to do or not do.  State this request in a polite format, with "Please..."  Write down your request.  Practice saying it with the mentor until you are comfortable with saying it.
• Prepare yourself to listen to the one request which the other person will make of you.  To prepare yourself, you will want to discuss with your mentor what you think or know the other person does not like about your behavior, and predict what request they might want to make of you. Make sure you are willing to honor whatever the other person's request might be.


Here is a summary or short form of the steps described above.  After discussing what happened:
 

• Own your own behavior.
• Identify one request to make to the other person
• State the request in Please/Thank you form.
• Be prepared to listen to the other student's request.
• Be willing to honor the request.


After you have gone through these steps with the mentor, you might need to wait until your mentor meets with the other person as well, to take that person through the same steps.  Or, if another mentor was meeting with the other person, the two mentors need to talk to each other to make sure both persons are ready to talk to one another and do the actual resolution.

Then, one of the mentors will meet with you and the other person to talk through the conflict resolution.
In this conference, one of you will begin.  You will go through the steps listed above (see short form) with the other person, and they will go through the steps with you.  When you get to the last step, be sincere; if you are willing to honor their request, say you will honor it to the best of your ability, and really mean it.  The other person should say, "Thank you."  You also should say "Thank you" if they say they are willing to honor your request.

If one or  both of you cannot agree to honor the other's request, the process will begin again.

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WEB sites go to for information or research and information on Anger

Anger Management - 10 Sample Websites

American Psychiatric Association Help Center

Self-Improvement Tips for Rage, Hate, Hatred and Violence

Controlling Anger