These web pages are part
of the Steps of Responsibility educational materials which also
include:
Transparency
Set
Click to
see the thumbnails of this lovely and humorous transparency set
that helps you teach the principles of The Steps of Responsiblity
in an amusing way.
THE
VIDEO
A 40-minute long video intended for stimulating discussions in
classrooms about the Steps of Responsibility. The video starts
with four scenes of adolescents committing wrongdoings: violence,
vandalism, stealing and harrassment of a teahcer. Dr. Ben Furman
then discusses these incidents in a studio with eight teenagers.
The discussion centers around the question of how the youngsters
in the four scenes could take responsibility for their actions.
A blinking PAUSE button indicates when to stop the tape for a
discussion in the classroom. Thanks to the Finnish branch of CONNECT
Iniative of the European Union this video is now available with
English subtitles For oders click
here.
THE
POSTER
An poster (size: A3 - 30 cm x 42 cm) which shows the Steps of
Responsibility picture and has the text "Take responsibility.
What does that mean?" The poster also shows the web adress
of the these pages. A pdf-version
of this poster is available free of charge. (Please
observe that you need the Acrobat Reader to see the poster and
that you may need to wait a while for the poster to load).
THE
BOOK
Steps of Responsibility: Coaching Youth to Take Responsibility
for Their Actions.
Harri Hirvihuhta and Tapani Ahola.
98 pages. Finnish Board of Education, 2000.
The book is currently available in Finnish and in Swedish. Subsidary
rights for translation to other languages are available from the
authors.
ADDITIONAL
VIDEO
A five minute long video intended for school children of all ages.
Narration by Dr. Ben Furman. Outlines the Steps of Responsibility.
Available only in Finnish.
The Finnish language
version of these web pages was originally produced the Healthy Self
Esteem Project of the Finnish Board
of Education, and became available on their official web site
in August 2000. The pages have been written and designed by psychiatrist
Ben Furman in assoiation with his colleague social psychologist
Tapani Ahola, both co-directors of the Brief
Therapy Institute in Helsinki, Finland.
The copyright of the
English version of these pages belongs to the Connect Innitiative.
Requests to obtain rights to translate these pages into other languages
and to distribute them should be adressed directly to Ben
Furman.