Bullying Behavior: Current Issues, Research, and Intervention

These timely intervention strategies make your school safer for everyone!

Bullying Behavior: Current Issues, Research, and Interventions provides the most up-to-date reports on the dynamics of bullying, including who bullies and why, who the victims are, and how depression and anxiety are correlated with bullying. It also presents detailed case studies of successful anti-bullying strategies for both local schools and national campaigns. Drawing on national and international clinical research, this book is indispensable for teachers and school administrators, therapists and child psychologists, social workers, child advocates and counselors, court personnel, probation officers, and education policymakers.

Bullying Behavior addresses all the issues of bullying, including:

• preventing sexual harassment
• models of bully and victim behavior
• the roles of dominance and bullying in the development of early heterosexual relationships
• psychosocial correlates in bullying and victimization
• peer influences during early adolescence
• students who are passive observers to the victimization of others

These timely intervention strategies make your school safer for everyone!

Bullying Behavior: Current Issues, Research, and Interventions provides the most up-to-date reports on the dynamics of bullying, including who bullies and why, who the victims are, and how depression and anxiety are correlated with bullying. It also presents detailed case studies of successful anti-bullying strategies for both local schools and national campaigns. Drawing on national and international clinical research, this book is indispensable for teachers and school administrators, therapists and child psychologists, social workers, child advocates and counselors, court personnel, probation officers, and education policymakers.

Bullying Behavior addresses all the issues of bullying, including:

• preventing sexual harassment
• models of bully and victim behavior
• the roles of dominance and bullying in the development of early heterosexual relationships
• psychosocial correlates in bullying and victimization
• peer influences during early adolescence
• students who are passive observers to the victimization of others

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Ten research articles are divided into three sections-Theoretical Perspectives, Dynamics of Bully Behavior: Clinical Research, and Interventions and Prevention-providing a documented glimpse of the whole problem of bullying and harassment in schools. Centered on middle school, where bullying peaks, these articles help youth-serving professionals understand and define bullying and some of the causes, bring into focus the change in the perceptions and the behaviors of those students who witness bullying, and give teachers paths to actively pursue and establish bully prevention programs that have shown success. Obstacles seem to rest consistently with adults and point to the need for a combined effort by teachers, supervising staff, administrators, and parents of all students, not just those of targets and bullies. Far too many adults believe that bullying is "just a part of growing up" and will help kids to "toughen up." Many teachers fail to intervene because they do not know what to do, whereas others might be modeling bully conduct, which supports similar behaviors in students. The book also notes that an essential ingredient is full administrative support. The more complete and pervasive the program, the more behavior and the school environment will change. This excellent, well-researched and documented selection of articles will be accessible to those readers who are not research oriented. Index. Charts. Source Notes. 2001, Haworth Press, 200p, Bott