Bullying And Psychological Distress

“Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there” (Joel Osteen). The bullying rates have increased tremendously since 2000. This is likely because of the increase in technology that anyone can practically do anything without others knowing. But this may not be the case, it could just be that people, since 2000, have been treated differently in this century than in the past. But why would this be?

The Bullying Policy has been introduced around the world which, according to the 2014 observations , rates of bullying vary across studies from 9% to 98%. An observation of 80 studies analyzing bullying involvement rates for both bullying others and being bullied for 12-18 year old students reported an estimate rate of 35% for traditional bullying involvement and 15% for cyberbullying involvement (Modecki, Minchin, Harbaugh, Guerra, & Runions, 2014). This means the Bullying Prevention Policy affects million of students nationwide due to the programs created. More specifically, females face a higher indication of bullying victimization than males do. To explain, high percentages of each gender are faced with the aggressive acts of violence, making it extremely hard to perform well in the school environment. Furthermore, as many as 93 percent of students hear derogatory words about sexual orientation at least once every day at school or in their community (violencepreventionworks). Negative name calling and harassment about sexual orientation can be disrespectful to all students. For an example, 3 out of 4 students who are bullied/harassed with such remarks are not identified as lesbian, gay,

In the article “Bullying affects mental health for years” by author Deborah Kotz, she mentions that the more bullying received the extra poor mental health a person will get. In the article Kotz mentions that those who experience bullying in a weekly basis were more likely to suffer of poor mental health. Kotz also mentions the kids that are more likely to suffer bullying are those kids with overweight, transgender, homosexual, physically disabled, or who have medical conditions such as peanut allergies or diabetes. In the article Kotz also mentions statistics from studies done before which have proven by the high percentages that bullied kids do suffer poor mental health. Kotz also discusses laws passed to prevent bullying and school which

Bullying has changed and become a more frequent trend over the years. Adolescents get bullied through social media and in person. In some cases there are not many people who speak out and help the person being bullied. While there might be some peers who hesitate to speak up, “[i]f no one speaks out against the bully, the bystanders interpret the lack of response as an acceptance of the behavior” (Finkelstein). When no one stands up for the victim, silence is an encouragement for the bullying to continue. Students don’t realize how speaking up for someone can make a great difference, even if it’s only one person. While children are mostly aware of what bullying is, they don’t completely understand it “[b]ullying can take many forms, including

Experiences of bullying victimization can be categorized into direct and indirect victimization and differ between boys and girls (Arseneault et al., 2010; Van der Wal et al., 2003). Many cohort studies have shown that 20-30% of school aged children fall victim to frequent bullying. While studies have shown that both boys and girls are victimized, girls tend to internalize the trauma of their experiences. There are several types of bullying; verbal, physical, relational, and cyber (Wang et al., 2009). Victimization is a leading cause of depression among both boys and girls. Over a two to three year period, using children ranging from ages 13-19, a broad range of ethnic backgrounds, gender, grade, age, and household composition are the

This article explores the prevalence rates of bullying victimization among special needs students in the United States. Investigators of this study report an advanced rate of bullying and victimization among students with disabilities when compared with mainstream peers. However, special needs students are prey for bullies because of characteristics related to their disabilities. Typically, many special needs students may be unaware of bullying victimization because of poor social and communication skills that comprise of misread facial expressions, body language, and tone. Furthermore, disabilities

There are so many short and long term affects that are associated with bullying. These effects take on both part of the situation; the bully and the victim. John Sheridan has short and long term effects for both the victim and the bully. From his article Short and Long Term Effects of Bullying - The Victim & the Bully, Sheridan come up which a list. His first list concludes five short term effect of the victim. The first short term effect is extreme depression where the victim always feels sad and need to withdraw from others. Second, the loss of self-esteem or self-worth may occur to emotionally attack the victim. Third, anxiety about attending event with peers, who will notice and judge the victim. Fourth, trouble sleeping such as nightmares,

Bullying has been going on for years now. It had been a major problem for years. Although bullying has dramatically decreased it still happens. I will be telling you the long term effects of kids who have been bullied. How studies have come out on victims of bullies. Lastly I will tell you who has been the most effected by bullying.

In the next 7 minutes, a child in the U.S. will be bullied. It may be the son or daughter of someone you know. Worse, it may be your own. Meanwhile, only four out of 100 adults will step in to stop it. And only 11 percent of the child’s peers might do the same. The rest 85 percent will do nothing. Every day in America, more than 160,000 children miss school out of fear of being bullied, according to National Education Association estimates. Bullying takes many forms, ranging from the seemingly innocuous name-calling to the more harmful cyberbullying to severe physical violence. It happens everywhere, at all times to the most vulnerable of kids, especially those who are obese, gay or have a disability. And besides the physical, emotional and psychological tolls it imposes on victims, bullying produces adverse socioeconomic outcomes. The Association for Psychological Science recently found that those who are bullies, victims or both are more likely to experience poverty, academic failure and job termination in their adulthood. In addition, they are likelier to commit crime and abuse drugs and alcohol. For schools, the financial burden caused by bullying is not to be ignored, either. According to a National Association of Secondary School Principals report, the average public school can incur more than $2.3 million in lost funding and expenses as a result of suspensions, expulsions, vandalism, alternative placement and lower attendance. There are different

This website was made to make sure that there is information available to parents, teachers, lawyers and professionals on how to handle bullying, ways to prevent it as well as explaining what bullying is. My stance is that there should be more steps taken to prevent bullying. On this website, a person is able to see what all the types of harassment are. Harassment ranges from sexual, racial, disability to gender. In elementary school, I too went through bullying because of my disability. I know that it can be hard for a student to get through the day when someone is picking on them and distracting them because of something that they can not control. Kids do not realize that the tormenting can make one feel down and not wanting to be in a

Bullying is defined as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among people that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both persons who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.” In this day and age, there are so many places advertising a no bullying sentiment or trying to get people to donate money or read about how to stop the bullying that goes on in high school. These websites and foundations are all good and dandy but they don’t do anything. They really have no effect on the teens who are actually getting bullied or doing the bullying. Teens will really do what they want in regards as to how they act towards their peers regardless of

interferes with a person’s life, is about power, not sex. The behavior can include being the target of sexual comments, homophobic insults, jokes, gestures, looks, or being touched in a sexual way. Cyberbullying usually takes place off of school grounds, or out of work. Cyberbullying utilizes all of modern gadgets of life; cell phones, instant messaging, videos, e-mail, chatrooms, blogs, social networking sites such as Facebook, to threaten, insult, harass, spread rumors, and impersonate others. Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can allow bullies to remain anonymous, and go unpunished for their actions (Kaiser 1).

Relevance Statement: The National Center for Education Statistics states 1 out of every 4 students is being bullied. And bullied victims are 7 to 9 times more likely to consider committing suicide and 36 percent keep quiet about being bullied. The victims can be your sibling, cousin, or your neighbor.

In example #2 of the bullying cases in which the female middle school student committed suicide after being harassed by her peers over a “sexting” photo, the school demonstrated significant incompetence in both government anti-bullying protocols as well as legal, moral, and ethical imperatives based on bullying research in the field of school psychology. This is shown by the exclusive focus on the student’s sexting photo and not on the later acts of bullying and their psychological implications in an environment populated by young people at a critical stage of cognitive and social development. Although the federal trial court dismissed the parent’s lawsuit based on “the school not being in a custodial relationship with the student at the time of the suicide,” this ruling represents a superficial understanding of the psychological impact of bullying in a school context and the school’s ethical and moral responsibility to develop a comprehensive plan to create an anti-bullying culture among faculty, students, and parents that extends beyond the school year. In the following, I will discuss in detail the specific areas of incompetence demonstrated by the school and how and why this incompetence weakens its moral, ethical, and legal foundation.

Through a recent survey, Burton High School has incidents of female and males being physically bullied on the premise and cyber-bullying. The females reported more Cyber-bullying, off-school premises, through text massages and social media outlets. The males reported a higher rate of physical bullying on the school premise than the females. Students reported the occurrence of physical intimidation preventing younger students to access hallways. Also, student’s who are perceived as “different” are target and taunted. Currently, the bullying behavior seems to be accepted by the staff at Burton High School. The 2014 Bullying statistics indicate that school bullying prevention programs are known to decrease bullying in schools up to 25 percent.