Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention

by Maher; Charles A

• ISBN13: 9780789022196
• ISBN10: 0789022192
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A comprehensive examination of theory, research, prevention and intervention, and professional practice issues - in one source. Teasing, shunning, and bullying can have serious detrimental effects on both victim and perpetrator. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Interventioncomprehensively gathers emerging research, theory, and effective practice on this subject into one invaluable source. This thorough review of a wide spectrum of innovative, evidence-based practices targets the complex problems of victimization, peer harassment, and bullying in our schools. Interventions range from individuals and their peers to broad, systems-level change within schools and communities. The challenge of prevention is also explored, using the latest studies as a practical foundation. Suggestions are provided detailing effective strategies to make changes in the culture within schools while offering directions for future research and practice. Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassmentdiscusses research on current intervention programs now in place that, until now, has never been evaluated. Several of the studies address middle school issues and multi-ethnic populations, including those from the United States, Canada, and Europe. Peer sexual harassment and dating-related aggression are examined that includes and goes beyond traditional views of bullying and peer intimidation. This valuable handbook provides concise yet extensive information on the most current theory, empirical research, practice guidelines, and suggestions for preparing schools for programmatic initiatives. Topics in Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassmentinclude: theory and conceptual issues in victimization, bullying, and peer harassment assessment results from a four-year longitudinal study on peer victimization in early adolescents youth perceptions toward bullying high school students' victimization profiles immigrant children and victimization evaluating an adolescent violence prevention program a school-based intervention program peer group intervention interventions for victims multiple perspectives involving sexual harassment school-wide approaches to prevention and intervention and much more! Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassmentis a crucial resource for researchers and mental health professionals who work in schools and who work with children and their families, such as school psychologists, counselors, clinical child psychologists, social workers, and community psychologists.

Table of Contents

About the Editors	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Theory and Conceptual Issues
Prevention and Intervention in Peer Harassment, Victimization, and Bullying: Theory, Research, and Practice	p. 3
A Pervasive and Serious Issue for School Mental Health and Academic Achievement	p. 3
Research Findings	p. 4
Directions for Research and Practice	p. 5
Lord of the Flies Revisited in Our Schools?	p. 6
Brief Overview	p. 7
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Assessment and Intervention with School Bullies	p. 9
Definitional Issues	p. 11
Assessment Issues	p. 13
Intervention Issues	p. 15
Conclusions and Future Directions for Research	p. 20
Empirical Research and Other Important Evidence
Dynamics of Peer Victimization in Early Adolescence: Results from a Four-Year Longitudinal Study	p. 29
Stability of Victimization	p. 30
Method	p. 33
Results	p. 36
Discussion	p. 42
The Association of Bullying and Victimization with Middle School Adjustment	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Review of Relevant Literature	p. 50
Methods	p. 52
Results	p. 55
Discussion	p. 59
Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Bullying in Middle School Youth: A Developmental Examination Across the Bullying/Victim Continuum	p. 67
Method	p. 71
Results	p. 73
Discussion	p. 78
A Cluster Analytic Investigation of Victimization Among High School Students: Are Profiles Differentially Associated with Psychological Symptoms and School Belonging?	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Method	p. 88
Results	p. 92
Discussion	p. 96
Immigrant Children in Austria: Aggressive Behavior and Friendship Patterns in Multicultural School Classes	p. 103
Problematic Interethnic Interactions-Peer Aggression	p. 104
Method	p. 107
Instruments	p. 108
Results	p. 109
Problematic Interethnic Interactions	p. 110
Cooperative Forms of Interethnic Interactions	p. 112
Discussion	p. 113
Peer Victimization in Middle School: When Self- and Peer Views Diverge	p. 121
Method	p. 123
Results	p. 128
Discussion	p. 135
Developmental Trajectories of Victimization: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors	p. 143
Intrapersonal Characteristics of Victims	p. 144
Method	p. 146
Results	p. 148
Group Differences	p. 149
Implications and Intervention	p. 154
Empirically Validated and Promising Preventive and Supportive Interventions
Targeting Bystanders: Evaluating a Violence Prevention Program for "Nonviolent" Adolescents	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
Program Description	p. 165
Method	p. 166
Results	p. 169
Discussion	p. 172
Viennese Social Competence (ViSC) Training for Students: Program and Evaluation	p. 179
School-Based Violence Prevention	p. 180
Bullying As a Group Process	p. 181
Social Information-Processing Theory	p. 182
ViSC Training	p. 183
Program Structure and Curriculum Components	p. 184
Evaluation of Visc Training	p. 186
Results of the Evaluation	p. 188
Discussion	p. 192
Using a Participatory Action Research Model to Create a School-Based Intervention Program for Relationally Aggressive Girls-The Friend to Friend Program	p. 199
Introduction	p. 199
Review of Relevant Literature	p. 201
Description of Application	p. 203
Conclusion and Recommendations	p. 213
A Story-Guided Peer Group Intervention for Reducing Bullying and Victimization in Schools	p. 219
Introduction	p. 219
Stories: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations	p. 222
Description of the Application	p. 225
Results	p. 229
Conclusions	p. 232
Empowering the Victim: Interventions for Children Victimized by Bullies	p. 239
Why Are Interventions for Victims Needed?	p. 240
Review of Relevant Literature	p. 242
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 250
Peer-Rejected and Bullied Children: A Safe Schools Initiative for Elementary School Students	p. 257
Peer Relationships	p. 257
Peer Problems and School Violence	p. 258
Safe Schools Initiatives	p. 260
Assessment	p. 260
Social Skills Group Intervention (SSGRIN)	p. 261
Prior Effectiveness Research on SSGRIN	p. 263
SS/HS Implementation of SSGRIN	p. 265
Evaluation Results	p. 267
Conclusion	p. 271
Guidelines for Practice: Professional Issues and Legal Considerations
Sexual Harassment and the Cultures of Childhood: Developmental, Domestic Violence, and Legal Perspectives	p. 279
Developmental Perspectives: Gender, Aggression, and Status in Children's School Societies	p. 281
Gender and Aggression in Domestic Violence: Applications to Peer Sexual Harassment	p. 288
Conclusion	p. 294
The Mental Health Professional's Role in Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Student Sexual Harassment	p. 299
Defining Sexual Harassment	p. 300
Gay and Lesbian Issues	p. 302
Prevalence of Sexual Harassment	p. 303
Developmental Issues	p. 305
Procedural and Legal Issues	p. 306
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Strategies	p. 307
Conclusion	p. 313
Bullying Is Power: Implicalions for School-Based Intervention Strategies	p. 317
Method	p. 319
Results	p. 323
Discussion	p. 329
Correlates of School Victimization: Implications for Prevention and Intervention	p. 339
Correlates of School Victimization-Concurrent and Longitudinal Links	p. 339
Interactive Processes Among Correlates	p. 351
Implications for Prevention and Intervention	p. 354
Future Directions	p. 356
School-Wide Approaches
Changing the Contexts of Peer Victimization: The Effects of a Primary Prevention Program on School and Classroom Levels of Victimization	p. 369
Background Research	p. 370
Description of the WITS Rock Solid Program	p. 373
Evaluation of the Program's Feasibility	p. 377
Measures	p. 379
Results	p. 381
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 385
Teasing, Taunting, Bullying, Harassment, and Aggression: A School-Wide Approach to Prevention, Strategic Intervention, and Crisis Management	p. 389
Introduction	p. 389
Review of Relevant Literature	p. 391
Description of the Application	p. 393
Results	p. 408
Conclusion and Recommendations	p. 409
Index	p. 413
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