# Conflict Resolution AbilityScore 700–800 — Next Steps

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A Conflict Resolution AbilityScore in the 700–800 band is an encouraging strength, suggesting your child manages everyday disagreements with growing skill. Next steps focus on celebrating and nurturing this through everyday practice, modelling repair, and viewing it within the whole social-emotional picture. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

*A Conflict Resolution score in the 700–800 band is wonderful news — your child is already learning to navigate disagreements with growing skill, and your next steps are about nurturing that strength further.*

## In short
A Conflict Resolution AbilityScore in the **700–800 band** is a genuinely encouraging result — it suggests your child is developing solid social problem-solving skills: noticing how others feel, pausing before reacting, and finding fair ways through disagreements. This is a strength to build on, not a worry to fix. Your next steps are simple — celebrate it, keep offering everyday chances to practise, and use it as a foundation for even richer social and emotional growth.

## What this strength looks like — and how to grow it
Children who score well in conflict resolution tend to manage everyday friction — sharing a toy, taking turns, recovering after a squabble — with more calm and flexibility than expected for their stage. To nurture this further:

- **Name the skill out loud** — "I liked how you waited and asked your friend instead of grabbing." Children repeat what we notice.
- **Let them solve their own small disputes** — pause before stepping in, and ask "What could you try?" so they practise generating their own solutions.
- **Model repair, not just calm** — show how you apologise, compromise and reconnect after disagreements at home.
- **Stretch gently into harder scenarios** — group play, board games and turn-taking with siblings or peers build negotiation, empathy and patience.
- **Read and role-play feelings** — stories and pretend play give a safe space to rehearse "What would you do if...?"

A strong score in one social area is also a chance to look at the *whole* picture — emotional regulation, communication and friendship skills all grow together, and your clinician can help you see how they connect.

## When to seek a check
A strength here is reassuring, but trust your instincts about the wider picture. Seek a developmental check if you notice difficulty with other social skills, big struggles managing emotions, trouble making or keeping friends, or if school or carers raise any concerns. Strengths and challenges can sit side by side — a balanced view always helps.

## The Pinnacle way
AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional — never from an app or a single number alone. A score in any band is one part of a fuller, clinician-administered structured assessment that maps your child's strengths and next opportunities together. Explore [how the AbilityScore® is built and interpreted](/ask/what-is-the-abilityscore-and-how-is-it-calculated), discover how [social and emotional skills are nurtured through therapy](/behaviour-therapy), and start at our [home page](/) to find your nearest centre.

## Trusted sources
American Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) guidance on social-emotional development and supporting friendships; WHO Nurturing Care Framework on responsive caregiving and early social learning; CDC developmental milestone guidance on social and emotional growth.

**Next step —** Want to understand your child's full social-emotional profile and how to build on this strength? [Book an AbilityScore® assessment with a Pinnacle clinician](/ask/what-is-the-abilityscore-and-how-is-it-calculated).

This is general information, not a diagnosis — individual assessment and diagnosis require an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

## Sources
- AAP HealthyChildren.org — social-emotional development: https://www.healthychildren.org
- WHO Nurturing Care Framework — responsive caregiving: https://nurturing-care.org
- CDC — social and emotional milestones: https://www.cdc.gov/child-development

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