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Bullying Prevention: Research to Practice
Introduction In Dr. Catherine Bradshaw’s 2015 article published in the journal of the American Psychologist (Link provided below), she offers us an understanding of the current state of bullying prevention programs around the nation, and around the world. The first point she highlights is the importance of bullying prevention. She notes the detrimental effects that
Understanding the bystander effect
Have you ever seen something happen and thought to yourself someone should do something. We have all had the experience overhearing a conversation where someone says something rude or offensive to someone else and we spend the rest of the day thinking about what we should have done. Bullying is not something that happens in private.
Help! I have a bully at school!
You have a bully in your life who is tormenting you and making school unbearable! Perhaps you have been told that ‘it is not your fault,’ to ‘avoid the bully the best you can’. After all, they picked you at random. There was nothing you could have done to prevent the bully from targeting
I think I might be a bully…
The thought arrived in your mind: ‘I think I might be a bully’. It could have come from anywhere: thinking about the way that you interact with your friends, maybe you read a blog post or watched a YouTube video about bullying and thought that some of your behaviors matched what you were reading or
10-Tips to Stop Bullying
We know 1 out of 5 young people experience bullying. What we really need to know is what can we do about it. Bullying prevention is difficult because it can be difficult to know what we are looking for. Knowing how to intervene when we see something that we believe to be bullying can be
Bullying in our schools – Data from the CDC
It is extremely difficult to collect data about bullying. Research on any topic can be expensive to fund. One has to consider things like paying researchers to collect data, getting people into the schools to talk to students, and putting all of the information together over time. Every two years, the Centers for Disease Control
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