STOP THE BULLY

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STOP THE BULLY

• By
• MARIA LEWIS

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DIRECT BULLYING

• Teasing
• Taunting
• Threatening
• Hitting
• Stealing

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INDIRECT BULLYING

• Spreading rumors
• Social isolation

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EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM

• 15 of students are bullied
• 6 of teenage suicides may be a direct result of
  being bullied

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BULLY

• Needs to feel powerful
• Satisfaction from others suffering
• Has little or no empathy
• Usually says victim provoked him
• Defiant toward adults
• Apt to break school rules

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THE VICTIM

• Considers school as an unsafe, unhappy place
• Is isolated because peers do not want to
  associate with them
• Leads to depression and low self-esteem
• Causes problems that can carry into adulthood

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WRONG PERCEPTIONS

• Telling teachers will only bring more harassment
  from bullies
• Students feel adult intervention is ineffective
• So wont tell parents either

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SCHOOL INTERVENTIONS

• Must involve entire school
• Implement curricular measures
• Conflict resolution
• Assertiveness training
• Peer counseling

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CLASS AND INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS

• Increase adult supervision at key times (PE,
  lunch, hall)
• Class rules
• Role playing
• Inform parents
• Activities to reduce social isolation