Bullying is a problem that may affect many children. Bullying may make a child feel afraid, shame, or nervous. The idea of being bullied may make a person feel sick. When having a bully in your school it may make the person scared to go to the bathroom, cafeteria, or go outside. Sometimes when you worry about a bully it can affect a child ability to do school work.
Antisocial behavior and aggression has been shown to link back to the rejection of those around you as a young child. It is believed that peer rejection at a young age is the cause of later stress while also affecting the development in that child. “It is hypothesized that, as a provocation stimulus, peer social rejection will lead children to respond with increased reactive and proactive aggressive behavior,” (Dodge & Coie, 2987). This quote narrows the article down to one main subject; that subject being the aggression caused in a child caused by rejection from peers or others around them. Not only does social rejection cause stress and aggression in a young child, it results in stress among the family due to the child’s behavioral changes.
Emotionally those who have been teased, bullied, those who bully schoolmates are in jeopardy of using aggression towards others and themselves, those who have been sexually, physically or sexually abused. When a child act out towards teachers, their parents, or others that is not an important threat (kids do that) but when there is violence involved this is a flashing warning signal for juvenile delinquency. These are just a small amount of the warning signs (Dr. Laura Hoelscher, 1993). This paper will have information explaining the goals, core beliefs, and objectives of these programs along with how they work in the reduction of crime among juveniles and increase the rehabilitation rate. Also explained within this paper are the services available for the juveniles and families.
Bullying in Schools Before we can discuss the different types of bullying, we must first have an understanding of what bullying is. Bullying is an aggressive behavior that involves unwanted negative actions; a pattern of behavior repeated over time and involves an imbalance of power or strength. Bullying has many different versions. It can include physical which consists of hitting, slapping, and shoving in a hurtful way, just to name a few. There's also verbal, and some examples of this are name calling, put downs, threats and intimidation.
The Impact of Domestic Violence on Preschoolers Amy Zaroor Psychology 331 Dr. Watkins 7 December, 2009 Abstract Witnessing domestic violence has a negative effect on the development of preschool children. There is a discrepancy between exposed and non-exposed children in cognitive ability as well as externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. When a child witnesses this violence, their trust is broken and they often show symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. There is a chance for children to show resilience in the face of witnessing this violence. Positive parenting, re-establishing trust, and being attuned to children’s emotions can play a big role in diminishing the harmful effects of this trauma.
Example: child X (being the bully) jokes with child V (the victim) and child V is offended by X’s joke. Such type of bullying affects both the victim and the “bully” – when this happens for more than once child V will start to feel less confident. However, as a result of a repetitive behaviour from the child X the “bully” will be excluded by the rest of the class or group. Effects As already mentioned previously, the effects of bullying does not only affect the bullied person, but also the bully him/herself. However another bracket of people who are affected by the action of bullying are the people witnessing the actual bullying.
Name: David Fletcher Class: Introduction to Psychology Day: Mon/Wed 12:30 – 3:20 Instructor: Ammeter, Tammy L Assignment: Emotion and Motivation Research Article Due Date: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Emotion and Motivation Are the Competent Morally Good? Perspective Taking and Moral Motivation of Children Involve in Bullying Key Terms: Bully: someone uses coercion or inflicts abuse to affect others habitually creating an imbalance of power. Victim: a person who is deceived, cheated or injured by force Bully-Victim: one who displays both characteristics of the bully and the victim Pro-social behavior: behaviors carried out with the intentions to help others Perspective taking: understanding
It is however linked to one’s experience while growing up. Some parents are known to narrate stories to their kids on how tough their life was while growing up and may at times end up differing on issues. In such eventualities, some tend to resort to violence as a means to express their anger. While doing so, rarely does it achieve its intended goal as hoped, but could at times only harden kids at such a tender age (Gershoff). Such kids could grow up in anger and result in more violence.
Individuals that bully have a mental imbalance of power among his or her peers that shows signs of unwanted aggressive behavior, repeated threats towards other children. Bullying includes the aggressive attacking on someone with verbal or physical abuse repeatedly. This form of behavior comes from acting out because the child’s home environment is abusive and this child must vent this anger on his or her peers. Bullying can be stopped in all schools if the community leaders, teachers, parents and law enforcement were to develop prevention and intervention programs as well as making bullying a crime punishable by law.Find/locate credible academic sources that specifically outline prevention and intervention programs. Gather statistics on how these prevention and intervention programs affect bullying incidents.Look Here:http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct02/bullying.aspxSpecific State Laws Against Bullying http://education.findlaw.com/student-conduct-and-discipline/specific-state-laws-against-bullying.htmlBelow is a fairly current list of specific laws against bullying by state.
Negative impacts of cyberbullying Cyberbullying has found to cause enormous harm to youth, which can be ascribed into impacts on personal well-being and psychological health. 3.1 Social well-being There are deep-rooted effects for bullies on their social well-being. In some cases, these impacts carry on when they enter the stage of early adulthood (Patchin et al., 2006; Kulig et al., 2008). A research done by Patchin and Hinduja (2006), reveals youth who were involved in cyberbullying, regardless of his/her role, had notably lowered self-esteem than children who had never or little experience of cyberbullying. Therefore, they display higher levels of antisocial, violent and/or criminal behaviour.