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"Current research demonstrates that bullying affects all children in schools, not simply the several students who may be most visibly involved in an individual incident. In order to prevent escalation or to stop the action, something different must happen. The victim or bully must change, but this may not be easy. Importantly, the classmates or the adults who witness the interaction have the power to change the interaction as well. This work frames bullying and teasing as part of the critical foundations of elementary and middle school planning that will allow children to experience the sense of personal safety needed to learn and grow. Several key features include: discussing bullying and destructive teasing in relation to the ability of children to benefit from instruction, in relation to the general school climate, and in relation to school violence; suggesting concrete ways to change school climate and provide protective factors for students by drawing on theories of group dynamics, ""social norms"" and bystander theory; and providing insights into training for individual students on how to deal with teasing and bullying using research into stress reactions and temperament. The book is designed for school psychologists and other school mental health workers, including school counsellors, social workers and school nurses, who want to address the ways bullying and teasing impact both individual students and the school as a whole. It should also be of interest to school administrators, health coordinators, special educators and school board members."

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Author:   Gayle L. Macklem
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.090kg
ISBN:  

9780306479748

ISBN 10:   0306479745
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   31 December 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Definitions, Study Approaches, and Incidence.- 2 Family and Societal Influences on Bullying.- 3 The School as a Factor in Bullying.- 4 The Bullies.- 5 Age and Gender Variables in Bullying.- 6 The Victims of Bullying.- 7 Children Who are Both Bullies and Victims.- 8 The Role of Bystanders in Bullying Episodes.- 9 Child-Centered Correlates of Bullying and Victimization.- 10 Friendships and Social Groups.- 11 School Wide Interventions.- 12 Interventions for the High and Low Structure Areas in Schools.- 13 Teasing and Low Level Aggression.- 14 Interventions for Bullies and Bully-Victims.- 15 Specific Interventions for Victims of Bullying.- 16 Interventions for Bystanders.- References.

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Gayle L. Macklem is a Massachusetts licensed school psychologist and a Massachusetts licensed educational psychologist. She has served in the field of education for 29 years. A former president of the Massachusetts School Psychologists Association (MSPA), Gayle is the current Technology Chairperson of the state association. She was elected School Psychologist of Year by MSPA in 2001, received a GPR award from the National Association of School Psychologists in 1997, and received a special merit award for action research in schools in 1993. Gayle taught for a number of years in the Counseling and School Psychology training program at UMass-Boston.  She is currently practicing in the Manchester-Essex Regional School District as school psychologist/team chairperson and serves as testing coordinator for the district.

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