A Peer-Led Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program Is Offered at the School

question 12

Multiple Choice

A peer-led drug and alcohol prevention program is offered at the school in your community. At a school board meeting you are attending, a parent confronts the board and demands that the program be shut down because she does not want her child being counseled by another student. How would you respond?

• A) Agree with the parent.
• B) Explain your professional background. Share that peer-led programs may possess greater potential for primary prevention than teacher-led ones.
• C) Share that peer-led programs yield twice as much student self- disclosure among participants as teacher-led ones, which can only help the participants.
• D) Share that studies comparing teacher-led and peer-led prevention interventions have resulted in mixed findings, so the parent might be right.

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Definitions:

Conciliation

Process whereby groups make cooperative gestures to one another in the hope of avoiding an escalation of conflict.

Arbitration

Process of intergroup conflict resolution in which a neutral third party is invited to impose a mutually binding settlement.

Bargaining

Process of intergroup conflict resolution where representatives reach agreement through direct negotiation.

Primitive Behaviour

Actions or reactions that are considered to be based on early or basic human instincts rather than learned or civilized responses.