A resource for teachers to foster the development of empathy and empathetic listening skills.
Helping Youth to See…Really See…the Other Person
Youth who present anti-social behaviour need powerful interventions that:
• strengthen empathy,
• counter negative peer influence and
• challenge thinking errors.
Youth who present anti-social behaviour need powerful interventions that:
• strengthen empathy,
• counter negative peer influence and
• challenge thinking errors.
What is the Equip program?
•EQUIP is a thoroughly tested, multi-component intervention for working with antisocial adolescents and those with behavior disorders.
•It is based on the premise that youths will help one another effectively once they are motivated through a positive group context and equipped with specific skills for providing mutual help.
•EQUIP's three-part approach includes training in:
–Moral Judgment
–Anger Management/Correction of Thinking Errors
–Prosocial Skills
•Students involved in the EQUIP program participate in two types of group sessions
–Equipment Meetings (in which the leader teaches specific skills that are demonstrated, discussed, and practiced) and
–Mutual Help Meetings (in which the leader coaches students as they use the skills they've learned to help each other).
•The Equip program is used at Agassiz Youth Centre to help the residents understand and change the thinking and behaviour that brought them into corrective custody, so they can pursue a positive future.
•The lessons are designed to help the residents develop empathy and to understand how their behaviour affects others.
•There are some foundation ideas that the residents learn in preparation for the lessons.
–4 Thinking Errors
–12 Problems
–The 4 Stages of Moral Judgement
•It is based on the premise that youths will help one another effectively once they are motivated through a positive group context and equipped with specific skills for providing mutual help.
•EQUIP's three-part approach includes training in:
–Moral Judgment
–Anger Management/Correction of Thinking Errors
–Prosocial Skills
•Students involved in the EQUIP program participate in two types of group sessions
–Equipment Meetings (in which the leader teaches specific skills that are demonstrated, discussed, and practiced) and
–Mutual Help Meetings (in which the leader coaches students as they use the skills they've learned to help each other).
•The Equip program is used at Agassiz Youth Centre to help the residents understand and change the thinking and behaviour that brought them into corrective custody, so they can pursue a positive future.
•The lessons are designed to help the residents develop empathy and to understand how their behaviour affects others.
•There are some foundation ideas that the residents learn in preparation for the lessons.
–4 Thinking Errors
–12 Problems
–The 4 Stages of Moral Judgement
