(This resource corresponds to Module 6.)

Adapted from Dash, K., Scattergood, P., Vince Whitman, C., Harding, W., Adler, M., Goddard, C, Myint-U, A. (2000). Step by step: Developing a comprehensive prevention plan. Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Inc.

• Empathy and perspective taking teach students that people can have different views of the same situations.
  
  
• Social problem solving teaches students to engage in a series of steps that involve setting positive social goals, generating alternative solutions to social problems, anticipating the likely consequences of different actions, choosing the best course of action, and successfully executing the solution.
  
  
• Anger management helps students understand that anger is a normal emotion and allows them to explore healthy and unhealthy ways of expressing anger.
  
  
• Communication teaches students active listening, understanding of nonverbal communication, and ways to express themselves constructively.
  
  
• Stress management provides students with healthy strategies for dealing with or relieving stress or anxiety.
  
  
• Media literacy teaches students to recognize and resist media influences that glorify substance use or other risky behaviors.
  
  
• Assertiveness training teaches students how to go after what they want in a manner that is neither hostile nor provocative.
  
  
• Normative education helps young people understand how their beliefs and perceptions affect their choices, and it corrects misconceptions that may lead to unhealthy behavior (e.g., education designed to correct misconceptions about the prevalence of underage drinking or drug use).
  
  
• Resistance skill training teaches about the social influences that promote substance use and violence, and builds skills for resisting peer and media influences.