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School Bullying: Impact, Measurement, and Interventions

February 29, 2008
Mental Research Institute - Palo Alto, CA

Course Description:

School bullying, once ignored, is now a subject of concern, research, and reduction programs. Many adults ignore bullying, some even approving it as vital toughening for life. A new measure shows many harmful concomitants of bullying as well as victimization. Bullying harm may include hurt, fear, later symptoms, and even school shootings. Yet schools often emphasize hardware solutions, not connecting the dots pointing to the importance of reducing bullying through subtle but significant changes which can pervade the school atmosphere and transform the students' experience at school.

Topics:

  • Sharing our sources of interest in the problem
  • A stealth problem
  • Scope of the problem -- prevalence, immediate impact, long term effects
  • Definitions
  • Measurement
  • Management -- children's responses, parents' responses, schools, responses, society's responses
  • Resources
  • View a video on school bullying and discuss it

 

Goals and Objectives

This workshop is designed to help you:

  1. Appreciate your own stake in the problem
  2. Grasp the pervasiveness and sources of blindness, denial, and minimization of the problem
  3. Understand the pressures to succumb to such attitudes as "tough-it-out" or defeatism
  4. Define bullying behaviors and distinguish them from ordinary conflicts
  5. Learn their consequences, both short and long term
  6. Decide whether there is a problem
  7. Decide whether to accept it, deal with it as usual, plan and implement a program to reduce bullying
  8. Be aware of some measurement instruments available and their strengths and limitations
  9. Identify and deal with common student attitudes which perpetuate the problem
  10. Identify counterproductive parental attitudes and encourage positive ones
  11. Identify important elements available to schools seeking to reduce bullying
  12. Identify tools society can provide, including school-district-wide-policy addressing bullying and state laws addressing bullying
  13. Understand key elements in such policies and laws so you can try to find them or lobby to obtain them at your district (policy) and state (law) levels.
  14. Know some resources for programs, books (for children, parents, schools), games, videos

Presenters:

Arthur M. Bodin, Ph.D., ABPP

Cost: $125

Hours:  9 am to 12 pm and 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm

6 Continuing Education Units

Continuing Education Units approved for MFT's, LCSWs, as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider #PCE 14, & by the California Board of Registered Nurses, BRN #2062,

This course has been approved for 6 hours of MCEP credit by the California Psychological Association Accrediting Agency. Course Code: MEN006-0087-000

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