Bullying: Puppets For Role Playing

This group therapy program seeks to address the four main elements of bullying prevention. These are finding effective interventions, providing psychoeducation, developing coping skills, and establishing problem solving skills. In addressing these issues, parents and teachers will be more aware about bullying, proper interventions will be used, parents and teachers will be able to provide coping skills to victims, negative effects of bullying will be reduced or eliminated, teachers and parents will be more knowledgeable about bullying, and parents and teachers will be able to reduce bullying in the school systems. The next section of this paper will provide a session-by-session breakdown of my bullying group therapy program.

Issue: If you or your child have ever been a victim of bullying then you know how horrible one can feel. There are many emotions and fears associated with bullying, and no one should have to be subjected to it. Bullying can have a lasting effect not only in one’s present life but their future as well. Bullying is very prominent in schools today, and there has been an increase in school shootings, which is the extreme reaction to being bullied. Children need to consider each other’s feelings before they decide to bully or pick on each other.

Staff in the school should promote positive behaviour and peer support and self esteem and social skills should be promoted with the children and young people. Stories can be read and even perhaps role playing can be used to put across the anti bullying policy. It can also be helpful to talk about bullying and why it is wrong,.

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.

My field placement is at Mesa Middle School, the home of the rattlers. Mesa Middle School is composed of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. At Mesa Middle School they offer a variety of services for their students. They provide crisis intervention, they assist the children with conflict resolution, and as well anger management. They also assist the children in understanding and accepting self and others, and finally, they help the children with any physical or emotional needs that can possibly be interfering with their academic success. The middle school does not offer many groups. The groups they do have are task groups. The sole purpose of these groups is to educate staff and help them develop fresh ideas to better the middle school. A rising issue the middle school has been struggling with is bullying. I have observed bullies being held accountable for their actions, but the children who are bullied are given no emotional support or guidance. These children who are bullied often end up having deeper issues in result to the bullying. These issues begin to affect their overall success in school. The middle school is in need of some type of support for these children. I feel a group would be very effective in helping meet this need because it would allow for these kids to get the support and guidance they need.

My sequence of lessons would then pave the way to discuss bullying once they have this elementary understanding of others ' emotions.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is a school-based and research-based program that prevents bullying in all forms and addresses other inappropriate behavior among children in our community. This program has been implemented in elementary and middle schools throughout **** County such as ****. This program is currently funded by the **** County Drug & Alcohol Commission, Inc. and a grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The grants that have been obtained are currently funding training at the 6 involved schools for administrative staff and classroom teachers. Presently, the needs for training materials and incentives for students and staff are under met.

The first process objective of providing a mental health education handout to elementary to middle-school aged children at the Boys and Girls Club was met. Research was performed and handouts were created that provided information on topics like how to identify a bully, what to do if you observe bullying, and what coping strategies can be used if you experience bullying. The staff members were provided the handout with anti-bullying and mental health resources to give to the parents and children.

These skills and behaviors can be introduced to students in lessons and classroom discussions. Some of the intensive interventions consist of support to both victims and bullies through group therapy and individual counseling. Obtaining parent support for these children is a important component of intervention initiatives. The goals of these programs are to empower adults and children to take the appropriate steps to stop bulling when and where it occurs and to teach children positive behaviors and interpersonal skills. “Effective prevention efforts mobilize a school’s most vital resource- the students- to be a school’s most powerful force in fostering a caring culture in which all students can grow and learn”( Feinberg,2003).

McNamara recommends the use of differentiated instruction to reach every student. The teacher should have a variety of literature on bullying in the classroom and vary the method of lesson presentation. Teachers can incorporate mnemonics, role playing, videos, and storytelling activities to reaffirm the learning experience. Teachers can also allow the students to take an active role in teaching the lesson. Furthermore, the author advises instructors of students with disabilities to simplify their lessons on bullying. Special needs students need short, clear instructions on how to handle a bullying situation. Once the students are comfortable using a particular strategy, then the teacher can add an alternative approach. The author believes the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the Council for Exceptional Children are excellent resources for supplemental literature and support on issues that pertain to the learning

I reviewed the above group project. The project is very well put together project overall. I believe students of this project reflected about the information that we have learned from this course. Their PowerPoint is easy to visualize and the information is conveying the message very well. They include all signs that indicate abuse and what needs to be taking in order to stop abuse from happening. They also addressed that people with disabilities are more likely being abuse compare to people without disabilities. They include some significant historical events and how far people with disabilities came from and some of their accomplishment along with their contribution. They define what is abuse such as physical, verbal and emotional abuse.

One of every five students is bullied each year (Bullying Basics,2017). Knowing that the problem of bullying is a large possibility in their classrooms, administrators’ and teachers’ main goal must be to offer a safe classroom and a positive, supportive learning environment to their students. If they work together to reach this goal, bullying can be

Central Idea: Bullying has been around for years, but it’s time to make a difference and get rid of it.

This will be a first person, role-playing and real-time strategy game. Which will be based on the situations when bullying is most likely to happen. Placing player in such scenarios, and making decisions at that very point, will make them understand the situations and effects of bullying and will intensify the knowledge and understanding of ways to counteract bullying.

As a teacher I would plan an activity for the whole class to participate in to teach the effects of bullying. I think a good activity that I could plan for my students would be to let them create a play that discusses bullying. First we would talk about what bullying means, how the person being bullied feels, and how the bully might