Bullying Behavior: Current Issues, Research, and Interventions / Edition 1

by Corinna Young, Marti T Loring

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789014351
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2002
Series:	Journal of Emotional Abuse
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Young, Corinna; Loring, Marti T

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction—What a Difference a Discipline Makes: Bullying Research and Future Directions
• Theoretical Perspectives
• Bullying in Schools: An Ecological Framework
• Tripartite Beliefs Models of Bully and Victim Behavior
• Conversations with Middle School Students About Bullying and Victimization: Should We Be Concerned?
• The Roles of Dominance and Bullying in the Development of Early Heterosexual Relationships
• Dynamics of Bullying Behavior: Clinical Research
• The Interrelationships of Behavioral Indices of Bully and Victim Behavior
• Psychosocial Correlates in Bullying and Victimization: The Relationship Between Depression, Anxiety, and Bully/Victim Status
• Bullying and Victimization During Early Adolescence: Peer Influences and Psychosocial Correlates
• Interventions and Prevention
• Middle School Bullying as a Context for the Development of Passive Observers to the Victimization of Others
• Preventing Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Elementary Schools: The Expect Respect Model
• Self-Efficacy in a New Training Model for the Prevention of Bullying in Schools
• Index
• Reference Notes Included