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Insults, putdowns, Shoves, pushes,
teasing, harassment hitting, assault

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Rolling eyes, dirty looks, uttering threats
threats,, extortion

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Leaving out Telling people not to be friends
Shunning with a victim

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Lowering people¶s opinion
about the victim
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 -hat is cullying?

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cully and Victim:
Size, Status, Role, Culture, Ethnicity«

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 Characteristics of a bully

Î High self-esteem

Î May be popular
Î More likely to engage in other problem
behaviors later in life:
Î criminal activity
Î alcohol or other drug abuse
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 -hy someone becomes a bully?
A person becomes a bully because
‡ he is angry of something,
‡ someone might have bullied him in the
past,
‡ he has a low self-esteem,
‡ he thinks controlling the victim will help him
feel better about himself,
‡ he might have been exposed to violence in
the media.
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‡ His parents or guardians might have lacked

in supervision like being too busy to teach
him how wrong it is to hurt others.
‡ Or maybe they spoiled him; making him
thinks he can do anything he wants.
‡ cully may have picked behaviour from being
directly bullied themselves, applied it to
others or copying bullying behaviour from
peers or circles.
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‡ They want to show that they possess certain
power in schools and make others follow what
they say. May feel inferior and need to prove
something.
‡ They get a feeling of power by scaring or
bossing other kids around.
‡ Need to feel powerful and in control.
‡ Appear to derive satisfaction from inflicting
injury and suffering on others
‡ Seem to have little empathy for their victim
‡ Often defend their actions by saying that their
victims provoked them in some way.
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‡ Studies indicate that bullies often come from

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± children are taught (in)directly to strike back
physically as a way to handle problems
± parental involvement and warmth are frequently
lacking.
‡ Students who regularly display bullying
behaviours are generally defiant or
oppositional toward adults, antisocial, and apt
to break school rules.
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ender Differences in cullying
‡ Most studies find that boys bully more than
do girls
‡ coys report being bullied by boys; girls
report being bullied by boys and girls
‡ coys are more likely than girls to be
physically bullied by their peers
‡ irls are more likely to be bullied through
rumor-spreading, sexual comments, social
exclusion
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 Characteristics of Victims
Passive
Î Quiet, anxious & insecure
Î Tend to ³normalize´ and no longer are victims upon
entering adulthood, though they may have continued
lower self-esteem and be more prone to depression

Provocative
Î Reactive, clumsy, impulsive, irritating
Î Attempt to fight or answer back when
attacked, but not effectively
Î Often hyperactive, have difficulty
concentrating and act in ways that irritate
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 Health Consequences of
cullying
cullied Not bullied
Headache 36% 6%
Sleep problems 42% 23%
Abdominal pain 37% 9%
Feeling tense 2 % 9%
Anxiety 28% 3 %
Feeling unhappy 23% 5%
Depression scale
moderate indication 49% 36%
strong indication 36% 2%
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 Enabling
is unwittingly protecting a person (e.g. bully) out of a
sense of love, compassion, fear, or survival instinct

Entitlement
the belief that it is our right to use violence or threats of
violence to express feelings, meet needs, or satisfy
wants.

Tolerance
violence accepted as the norm by adults or young people
who ignore, rationalize, or minimize incidents of violence.

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How far should things go before
bullying behavior is addressed?

cullying behaviors should be addressed

  it interferes with the health,
academics or learning process of a
student.

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‡ Entertaining cast of
characters
‡ Model positive
behaviors
‡ Interactive

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Children -ho cully are
More Likely to:
‡ et into frequent fights
‡ ce injured in a fight
‡ Steal, vandalize property
‡ Drink alcohol
‡ Smoke
‡ ce truant, drop out of school
‡ Report poorer academic achievement
‡ Perceive a negative climate at school
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‡ Carry a weapon