Defines conflict, looks at its causes, discusses the various types of organizational conflict, reviews the Myers-Briggs psychological types as they affect conflict, examines managers' typical reactions to internal and external conflict, and lists six keys to successful conflict resolution. (SR)

Notes that, in long term care, conflicts over autonomy can begin at level of conceptualization, especially when basic distinctions and polarities are not adequately recognized. Indicates conceptual complexity by identifying and examining six polarities. Presents case studies to illustrate how each polarity can give rise to ethical problems in long…

Examines what can and should be done to clarify and/or resolve scientific conflicts with policy implications. Includes a typology for classifying controversies, mechanisms, and objectives with regard to scientific disputes with policy implications. This apparatus aims to show the differences in disputes and in approaches to deal with them. (JN)

Presents a model for understanding termination conflict resulting from competing rather than complementary responses to successful counseling. Discusses termination conflict as a threat to an otherwise successful counseling relationship. (Author)

This article explores the impact of worldview on a people's approach to dealing with conflict and compare the worldviews underlying specific Western and Indigenous approaches to dealing with conflict. It suggests that power imbalances in conflict resolution research and practice perpetuate colonization through ontological violence, marginalizing…

Reviews several explanations for "playing the dozens," a ritualized verbal contest carried out principally among Black males. Holds that the ritual is a survival technique that teaches young Black men to face up to an antagonistic society and to deal with conflicts. Provides examples of ritual insult from other cultures. (Author/GC)

This approach to conflict-management training provides systematic training in coping skills. Trainees are encouraged to look at conflict from the viewpoint of management of personal reactions rather than solely from the problem-solving perspective. Suggested activities for self-examination and skills development are offered. (Author)

Presents succinct summaries of the concept of conflict and the unique developmental issues of adolescents whose parents are divorcing. Provides counselors with a five-step conflict resolution model suitable for the adolescent with divorced parents. (NB)

Focuses on interdisciplinary conflicts in the mental health field. Describes a series of events in a medical school's department of psychiatry. Examines the dynamics of interdisciplinary conflict in two contexts: (1) the politicization of the internal conflicts; and (2) the use of interdisciplinary conflict to obscure other basic conflicts.…

Helping children and youth learn through school experiences to deal constructively with questions of peace, war, and ways to promote peace preparedness is the purpose of this four-year peace education project. The principal goals of the project include: (1) an inventory and analysis of experiences and related peace education projects in various…

Mediation, in which a neutral third party helps two people come up with their own solutions, is being used to settle faculty and staff grievances. Experiences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Duke University, Emory University, and the University of Cincinnati are described. (MLW)

Examines fundamental conflict between goal of social work system to protect and treat child and goal of criminal justice system to fairly prosecute defendant. Reviews most recent scientific studies regarding suggestibility and credibility of children as witnesses. Analyzes legal and strategic issues surrounding videotaped testimony of children.…

Misunderstanding, conflict, peevishness, and vituperation have typified some of the shifting schools of thought concerning behavioral thinking. Sometimes the "scientist" him/herself has behaved in most unscientific ways. A practitioner of the art looks at some of the conflictual ethics manifested in the exercise of the craft of psychology.…

Drawing on R. Agnew's (Foundation for a general strain theory of crime and delinquency. Criminology 30: 47-87, 1992) general strain theory, this paper examines whether depressed mood and anger mediate the effects of family conflict on delinquency. We examine data on 7,758 students, 14-16 years old, attending the compulsory 9th and 10th grades of…

Draws analogy between Muhammad Ali's boxing technique of "rope-a-dope" and behavioral patterns frequently occurring in couple conflicts. Presents basics of Ali's technique as similar to fighting patterns of many couples. Suggests that this behavior may lead to physical violence. Describes use of analogy in working with couples. Presents strategies…