Refusal Skills & Peer Pressure

You enter the bathroom an see a group of students sharing a vape pen you immediately turn around and leave.

• Change the subject

• Cold shoulder

• Say "No Thanks!"

• Walk away

1.Your friends want you to go to a party where no parents will be supervising. You decide not to go!

• Say "No Thanks"

• Avoid the situation

• Change the subject

• Strength in numbers

Your friends ask you to vape afterschool. You tell them you have a cold and don't want to share your germs.

• Make an excuse

• Cold shoulder

• Avoid the situation

• Strength in numbers

You are at a sleepover your friends are pressuring you to drink alcohol. You continue to refuse despite the peer pressure.

• Surround yourself with good influences

• Give an excuse

• Repeated refusal or saying "NO"

• Avoid the situation

Your friends invited you to an unsupervised party when you were on SNAPCHAT. You replied "Hey anybody want to go to the football game tonight?"

• Walk away

• Cold shoulder

• Strength in number

• Change the subject

Changing the subject is a good way of refusing a substance.

• True

• False

Which one of these people best fits your group of peers?

• Your baby sister

• Your soccer coach

• Your favorite aunt

• Your classmate

Positive peer pressure is defined as:

• Influence that comes from your friends

• Influence that you put on yourself

• Influence that encourages good behavior

• Any compliment or words of praise

What is the FIRST refusal skill that should be used?

• Give a reason

• Suggest an alternative

• Say no

• Walk away

You and your friends were invited to an unsupervised party. A peer offers you a beer. You and all of your friends walked out immediately.

• Change the subject

• Strength in number

• Keep saying "NO"

• Cold shoulder