One possibilitiy is our special room for social training, where students were send by the teachers if they couldn´t follow the lessons because of social behavior problems. There they have to reflect their behavior by thinking and writing down some reasons why they could not or don´t want to follow the lessons. Together with a social worker the students talk about the problems and try to solve it or at least to find a way to deal with at school. Then they were send back to the lesson.
Another possiblitiy for our students to deal with a conflict at school is to go to the so called "student mediators", where the mediators try to deal with a conflict two students have with each other. First they talk to one of the students and ask what the conflict is in his opinion, then they talk to the other student to hear the other side of the medal. Afterwards they try to mediate the conversation between the two students themselves. That is not easy! But sometimes it works better than if a social worker or teacher deals with it. And the mediators themselves get a lot of experiences, too!
A special method our social workers tried for a student who has massiv behavior problems is the "supporter team". This student always tries to get in contact to other students during the recreation breaks by behaving not well. So one social worker who deals with this student build a group of students to help him to find the right way to get in contact to other students. That is not easy because some supporters had been in conflict with him earlier. So they need to do hard work to stay calm and help him! But it works a little;-))
