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Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills

Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills. 5.3. What is Peer Pressure? Can peer pressure be positive and negative?. Teens look to members of their peer group for acceptance(fit in) Peer Pressure can influence your decisions positively or negatively

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Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills

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  1. Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills 5.3

  2. What is Peer Pressure? • Can peer pressure be positive and negative?

  3. Teens look to members of their peer group for acceptance(fit in) • Peer Pressure can influence your decisions positively or negatively • Making fun of others, you might hang out with a group of girls who only talk gossip and make fun of others

  4. Peer Pressure • Direct Peer Pressure: Form of words or actions directed toward you • Indirect Peer Pressure: you notice many people at our school wearing a specific shoe style. You want to go out and buy those shoes

  5. Positive Peer Pressure • Can inspire you to be the best person you can be. • When sally saw the news of Katrina Hurricane she took into action raising money from her neighborhood. She asked friends, neighbors, relatives

  6. Negative Peer Pressure • Peer Pressure is pressure to do something that could hurt you or others, or get you into trouble. • Stephanie laughed when other girls were making fun of Jasmine. • Teens who put negative pressure on you may try to manipulate your emotions or find your weaknesses.

  7. Recognizing Negative peer Pressure

  8. Refusal skills: communication strategies that help you say no effectively • Strategy for refusing • Say no in a firm voice • Tell why not • Offer other ideas • Promptly leave

  9. Styles of communication • Aggressive: speaking in a way that is overly forceful, pushy, hostile, or otherwise attacking in approach • Passive: tendency to give up, give in, or back down without standing up for your rights and needs • Assertive: behaving with confidence and clearly stating your intentions

  10. Assignment • Page 117 • 1-5

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