Peer Pressure.

What is peer pressure?Is it always bad?

What kinds of Peer Pressure do young people experience?

Types of peer pressure

Negative peer pressure when others encourage you to:

•Behave badly

•Truant from school

•Smoke

•Drink

•Damage property

•Bully

•Do risky and dangerous activities such as playing ‘chicken’.

Positive peer pressure is when others encourage you to:

• Support others (Buddies).

•Behave well

•Attend school

•Respect others and their property.

•Respect yourself and your safety

Are there any others that you can think of?

Role play

Sue is going to put Suzan under pressure.

Is it positive or negative peer pressure?

How do you think Suzan felt?

How do you know what she is feeling?

What do you think she should do?

You have a go.

•Behave badly

•Truant from school

•Smoke

•Drink

•Damage property

•Bully

•Do risky and dangerous activities such as playing ‘chicken’.

Choose one from the negative peer pressure list and and put your partner under pressure to have a go. See what it feels like. Swap roles.

What did it feel like?

Why do you think people put others under negative peer pressure?

Who tends to use peer pressure?

Being assertive.

Sue is going to put Suzan under pressure again.

What did Suzan do differently this time?

How do you think Suzan felt this time?

How did Sue feel?

What does ‘assertive’ mean?

You have a go.

•Behave badly

•Truant from school

•Smoke

•Drink

•Damage property

•Bully

•Do risky and dangerous activities such as playing ‘chicken’.

Choose one from the negative peer pressure list and and put your partner under pressure to have a go. BUT this time use the assertiveness technique. See what it feels like. Swap roles.

What did it feel using the assertiveness technique?

Any questions?

What have you learnt?

What will you do if someone tries to make you do something you feel

uncomfortable with?