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This extremely popular and highly engaging curriculum has been updated to reflect current technological advances and includes the latest information and statistics surrounding the issue of cyberbullying. The eight-session curricula helps students understand what cyberbullying is, its consequences, and what students should do when cyberbullying occurs. Although cyberbullying happens outside school, it affects what happens in school, contributing to poor school performance, depression, and in some extreme cases, even suicide. However, schools and students have found ways to resist and intervene in cyberbullying. This program can help your students protect themselves and their friends 24/7. It includes a facilitator's guide and a CD-ROM of reproducible handouts, posters, parent materials (in English and Spanish) and information on how to address cyber bullying in a comprehensive schoolwide prevention effort. Program Goals: Raise students' and parents' awareness of what cyberbullying is and why it is so harmful. Equip students with the skills and resources to treat each other respectfully when using online tools. Give students information about how to get help if they, or others they know, are being cyberbullied. Teach students how to use technology in positive ways. This is a very cost-effective program. All materials are included in the facilitator's guide and on the CD-ROM: Reproducible parent resources Reproducible student fact sheet Program poster and all student handouts Resources to address cyberbullying school-wide (school policies, legal concerns, etc.) Peer leader training materials A short training on cyberbullying for program facilitators

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Susan P. Limber is director of the Center on Youth Participation and Human Rights and professor of psychology at Clemson University, USA. She is a developmental psychologist who received her masters and doctoral degrees in psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also holds a Masters of Legal Studies from Nebraska, USA. Dr. Limber's research and writing have focused on legal and psychological issues related to youth violence (particularly bullying among children), child protection, and children's rights. She directed the first wide-scale implementation and evaluation of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in the United States and co-authored the Blueprint for the Bullying Prevention Program as well as many other articles on the topic of bullying. In recent years, she has directed the training for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in the United States. She has provided consultation to the National Bullying Prevention Campaign, supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration. In 1997, she received the Saleem Shah Award for early career excellence in psychology-law policy, awarded by the American Psychology-Law Society of the American Psychological Association (Division 41) and the American Academy of Forensic Psychiatry. In 2004, Dr. Limber received the American Psychological Association's Early Career Award for Psychology in the Public Interest.

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