Preventing Cyberbullying and Sexting One Classroom at a Time
Bullying is not new, but its venues have expanded to include social media and mobile phones. When students receive hurtful, threatening, or sexually explicit electronic messages, it affects their ability to concentrate on schoolwork. Renowned cyberbullying experts Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin connect the off-campus, high-tech behaviors of teens to the school environment and provide educators with a road map for developing a positive school climate that counteracts cyberbullying and sexting. School Climate 2.0 differentiates cyberbullying from traditional bullying and offers specific strategies for improving school climate, including Building a sense of community Peer mentoring Social norming Data-driven action plans Youth grassroots campaigns Multi-pronged policy and programming approaches by adults Included are anecdotes, stories, and high-profile case examples that illustrate the research. The book's companion website features a Twitter feed and Facebook Fan Page with regular PreventionPoints you can put into action quickly, downloadable activities and worksheets, questions to facilitate staff and student discussions, and emerging best practices in school climate research and evaluation-powerful tools for bully-proofing your school.
This book examines school-based mass shootings by focusing on characteristics of the incident and geographic space to synthesize a holistic picture of the legal, socio-economic, and geographic context in which these incidents occur.
Research on Childhood, Workplace, and Cyberbullying
Featuring acclaimed research articles on cyber, childhood, and workplace bullying from the peer-reviewed journal Violence and Victims, this book provides comprehensive coverage of bullying from expert researchers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, criminology, counselling, and social work. It reflects our broadening perspectives ......
Presenting cutting-edge work from leading scholars, this authoritative handbook reviews the breadth of current knowledge on aggression from infancy through adolescence. The volume explores the forms and functions of aggression and the multiple factors that contribute to its emergence, development, and consequences, including genetic and biological ......
Covers bullying, teasing, and victimization in child, adolescent, and adult populations. This book presents theoretical perspectives, including social cognition, social ecology, genetics and genetic-environment interactions, and social cognitive neuroscience. It analyses traditional aggression and victimization as well as social rejection.
Academic Violence and Bullying of Faculty recognizes academic violence and bullying in higher education as a serious and prevalent issue. The book provides realistic hope for those experiencing or who may experience academic violence and bullying by providing information and interventions. The book provides a theoretical framework of academic ......
Psychologist Graham Ramsdens insightful new book explains why people, particularly children, bully others - and helps teachers to explore a variety of ways in which they can use their existing systems and structures to address this endemic issue.
Presents a datadriven approach to preventing and responding to school violence. With concrete methods for promoting safety educational settings, this book will engage and enable school faculty, counsellors, administrators, and other partners to better understand areas of common interest and learn how to work together more effectively.
