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This book is an immediate call to action -- to stop the bullying and emotional cruelty of girls toward each other in our schools and communities. The book personifies each emotional strategy as a "queen of mean," identifying the need to empower girls toward more productive uses of emotion. Through this book, readers will be reminded or become more aware of the difficulties growing up as a girl in today's society. The chapters include ideas to empower...

"Is bullying an innocent part of growing up ... or a serious problem requiring large-scale policy remedies? What is behind our rapidly changing perceptions of "acceptable" behavior? And when is the remedy worse than the problem? In their in-depth view of school bullying, Jeffrey Cohen and Robert Brooks navigate between empirical evidence and breathless media accounts to make sense of ongoing debates and provide insights into the failure of punitive...

Provides teachers, counselors, and administrators with lessons and activities that promote the safety and well-being of students and that teach students how to prevent bullying.

From physical violence to harassment and now cyberbullying, bullying has never been a bigger problem in our schools than it is today. This four-part video series provides school administrators with all of the necessary tools for implementing a comprehensive, school-wide bullying prevention program. Unlike other programs that take a patchwork approach, "The ABCs of Bullying Prevention" offers practical, evidence-based strategies that will help school...

From the Back Cover: Help students with special needs develop skills for meeting the challenges of bullying! Children with challenges can encounter difficulties in navigating their journeys within inclusive classrooms. This book focuses on the vulnerabilities of youngsters to be bullied, especially those with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Asperger syndrome, and gifted abilities, and also discusses why these children...

From physical violence to harassment and now cyberbullying, bullying has never been a bigger problem in our schools than it is today. This four-part video series provides school administrators with all of the necessary tools for implementing a comprehensive, school-wide bullying prevention program. It will also help them know how to respond when bullying does occur. The video is presented by Dr. Kenneth Shore, a school psychologist, family counselor,...

From physical violence to harassment and now cyberbullying, bullying has never been a bigger problem in our schools than it is today. This four-part video series provides school administrators with all of the necessary tools for implementing a comprehensive, school-wide bullying prevention program. It will also help them know how to respond when bullying does occur. The video is presented by Dr. Kenneth Shore, a school psychologist, family counselor,...

Research evidence on bully-victim problems has accumulated rapidly in recent years. From this, there is little doubt that prolonged involvement in bullying, as a perpetrator, victim, or, not uncommonly, as both a perpetrator and target of bullying, conveys risk for many aspects of development. As in many emerging areas of psychological science, diverse research efforts evolved more or less independently, producing a very large and rich body of knowledge,...

This book confronts the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society. Filled with insights, personal stories, anecdotal material, and strategies that are directed to the widest audience possible, it urges us to become change agents and empower children to transform their pain, rage, and revenge to empathy, kindness, and healing. Topics tackled include physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, cyber, sibling, and even summer camp bullying. What sets...

In Homophobic Bullying, Ian Rivers reviews primary data from key studies conducted in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and Scandinavia that have shaped the way we view homophobia in educational contexts. Using theories and ideas drawn from psychology, sociology, anthropology, and ethology, this book aims to conceptualize homophobic bullying as a construct of dominant institutions and groups that reinforce beliefs about the abnormality of homosexuality....