Childhood Bullying Awareness - Say NO to Bullying in Schools

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DEFINITIONBullying is defined as “unwanted, aggressive behavior among

people that involves a real or perceived power imbalance”

An Imbalance of Power Repetition

In order for an act to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and needs to include:


TYPES OF BULLYING

Involves negative words directed towards someone including curses,

insults, name calling in order to intentionally hurt a person

Verbal bullying Includes physical attacks

on a child such as tripping, hitting, poking, etc

Physical Involves spreading negative

rumors and undermining someone in order to

exclude him or her from the rest of the group

Social


Sending mean messages or threats to a person’s email

account or cell phone

Stealing a person’s account information to break into their account and send

damaging messages

Taking unflattering pictures of a person and spreading them through

cell phones or the Internet

Spreading rumors online or

through texts

Posting hurtful or threatening messages on social networking

sites or web pages

Pretending to be someone else online to

hurt another person

TYPES OF BULLYINGBullying on the RiseCyber Bulling


81% of youth agree that bullying online is easier to get away with than

bullying in person

81% of youth agree that bullying online is easier to get away with than

bullying in person

1 in 6 parents know their child has been bullied via a social

networking site

Only 7% of U.S. parents are worried about cyberbullying, even though

33% of teenagers have been victims of cyberbullying

TYPES OF BULLYINGBullying on the RiseCyber Bulling


GENERAL STATISICS

One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during

the school year

19.6% of high school students in the US

report being bullied at school in the past year.

14.8% reported being bullied

online

64% of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36%

reported the bullying

School-based bullying prevention programs decrease bullying by

up to 25%

Race 16%Body Shape 37%Look 55%

The reasons for being bullied reported most

often by students were looks (55%), body shape

(37%), and race (16%)


WHO GETS

BULLIED THE

MOST?While bullying has no one particular

group of targets, statistics and research highlight certain groups

that are more prone to being bullied than others.Those are

One third of girls and one fourth of boys report weight- based teasing from peers, but prevalence rates increase to approximately 60% among the heaviest students.

People with weight problems:

Several studies reveal that children with disabilities were two to three times more likely to be bullied than their non-disabled peers.

People with Disabilities:

5% of LGBT students felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and 37.8% because of their gender expression

People who are LGBTQ or perceived as LGBTQ:

In the US, more than one third of adolescents are reporting bullying because of their race or religion.

People who belong to racial or religious minorities:


Students who bully others are at increased risk for substance use,

academic problems, and violence later in

adolescence and adulthood

EFFECTS OF BULLYING

Students who experience bullying are at increased risk for depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and poor school adjustment. They are also twice as likely as non-bullied peers to experience negative health effects such as headaches and stomachaches


WARNING SIGNS OF BULLYING

A child is strangely quiet

Unexplained injuries

Missing things such as toys and personal items

A change in eating habits

Trouble Sleeping


INTERVENTIONS

Bullied youth were most likely to report that actions that accessed support from others made a positive difference

Actions aimed at changing the behavior of the bullying youth (fighting, getting back at them, telling them to stop, etc.) were rated as more likely to make things worse

Students reported that the most helpful things teachers can do are:

Give the student advice

Listen to the student

Check in with them afterwards to see if

the bullying stopped



http://www.pacer.org/bullying/about/media-kit/stats.asphttp://nobullying.com/the-complicated-web-of-teen-lives-2015-bullying-report/

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