Article Review : Dealing With Bullies

Bullying is a very touchy subject for people to talk about. It deals with a lot of mental, physical, and emotional damage. Bullying is violent and unwelcoming behavior among various different aged children in school that involves a lack of power for one kid and a lot of power for another. The behavior of a bully is repeated numerous times over time and becomes more aggressive as the path goes on. The bully has an imbalance of power over the one being bullied. They bully uses their power for giving out embarrassing information, control, physical strength, popularity, and harming others. Kids who are being bullied and bullying others have serious lasting problems throughout their lifetime. Bullying is becoming a major issue in today 's society and somebody needs to make a stop to it.

The concept of bullying in the school system has been linked to many homicides and

Andreou, E., Didaskalou, E., & Vlachou, A. (2008). Outcomes of a curriculum-based anti-bullying intervention program on students' attitudes and behavior. Emotional & Behavioral Difficulties, 13(4), 23.5.

The Bully Survival Support Group will be a short-term group which will consist of 8 sessions, totaling 8 weeks. The group will be short-term because it is a closed therapeutic support group that members are not admitted into the group after selection have been made. This decision was made to enable the group leader and co-facilitator instigate another session of the support group, to enable other students have an equal chance to be recruited, and supported through participation.

The main argument of this article was is there a link between types of transportation and bullying. The main purpose of this article was to identify the relationship between active transportation such as walking to school and bullying. The key question the author was looking to answer was is there a link between active transportation and bullying in Canadian schools. The researcher collected data using a cross sectional design. The researcher surveyed 3,997 urban students

Bullying has been recognized as a risk factor in improvement and personal growth of children and adulthood. It is a form of hostile conduct in which an individual engages to cause another individual harm or distress (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).. Therefore, it is vital to be able to detect signs of bullying in order to stop further consequences, such as self-harm, and suicide. Children who have experienced bullying become hopeless, anxious, have low self-efficacy, and have recurrent negative thoughts (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012). Research in bullying has also concluded that children who bully other children are more prone to become anti-social and engage in criminal activity (Kirves, & Sajaniemi, 2012).

According to the article “Tales of Bullying,” students can become a bad bully because you might have your own group of friends you want to impress or try to show off for, or you might have something going on at home. According to paragraph 3 in “Meet the New Sheriff” kids may get bullied because of their hair and/or what they wear. All around the wonderful world good kids are ending their own good lives over bullying. A bad bully is far worse than a lazy bystander because mean bully’s cause suicides, bullies cause/have low self-esteem, not to mention they suffer a large amount of punishment.

Bullying has become a larger issue in schools across the nation. Schools have noticed the pattern that bulling takes place on their campus. School districts are trying to decrease the amount of bulling by creating anti-bulling programs, teaching students respectful manners, and create fun methods to keep positive attitude.

Over the years bullying has become a problem. It affects kids to even adults. Bullying is a problem here a Buhach and the students should be aware of how to handle a bully. Don’t think that it can’t happen to you because bullying can happen to everyone regardless of your age.

The results and consequences of bulling in all sorts of format (verbal, cyber or physical)

In an article called, “Bullying Children with Disabilities a Global Epic” Ervin Dana states that studies show that children with disabilities are being bullied fairly more than children without disabilities. In an article about juvenile bullying called, “Children, Families, and Communities, Juvenile Justice Bulletin” Jeff Slowikowski explains and demonstrates the importance of the environment the bullied victim is in and the impact a student teacher relationship can have on a student. Two other articles that also say this is, “International Journal of Whole Schooling Vol. 8(1), 2012” by Stepahanie T. Mihalas, Ryan G. Witherspoon Meg E. Harper, and Brittan A Sovran and, ”Enhancing the Effects of Teacher Attunement to Student Peer Group Affiliations

The book illustrates children of diverse races, ages, names, and character traits. A boy’s much larger father also drags him away on Parent-Teacher day.

This interests me because, even though I have never been bullied, I have been around people who have been bullied and not know how to deal with it. At that time those people were involved in self-harm and even attempted suicide. I didn't know how to deal with them either, but they found out that they were really comfortable talking to the school counselor so that really helped them out a lot. Having to see them go through that makes me realize how important getting GPs involved in dealing with bullies. I would like to see GPs involved more in the school district that I

Although schools, agencies and pediatricians can do much at the community level to mitigate bullying and its effects, the problem is clearly societal in scope. Bullying cannot be stopped with a single intervention or by a single social agency. The use of violence to solve problems is repeatedly illustrated through television and other visual media. Many parents of bullies believe that it is appropriate for their children to learn how to compete in the schoolyard and do not see bullying as an issue (Feldman Hertz, Donato, & Wright, 2013). Too many children in our society are exposed to domestic violence directed towards parents and themselves. Too many children are born into adverse family situations, including low maternal age at the birth

These past discussions have been great, so I hope that I can continue this week with the topic of BULLYING and SCHOOL VIOLENCE. As a parent of two young boys, I am 100% invested in keeping my kids safe at school and have been actively involved with their anti bullying campaign at their school. I hope that by being involved in such a program that I am setting an example that bullying is not okay and that if you are being bullying to not be afraid to tell your parents what is happening at school.