What effect does bullying have on children? Every day children suffer the devastating consequences that result from bullying in our schools. Bullying affects not only the children involved, but also has a negative impact on the entire school environment. Bystanders who witness bullying may either fear that they will be the next victims or deduce that this abusive behavior is tolerable. Students deserve to feel safe at school, however when they experience bullying, the effects can last long into their future.
Being a victim of bullying is a very difficult and painful experience and while a child is in attendance at school they should be clear from harm and danger. The imbalance of power associated with bullying obtains the components of physical, verbal or psychological violent behavior (Pranjić & Bajraktarević, 2010). Studies have shown that symptoms with bullying in primary school children, has revealed a considerable connection between victimization and signs that indicates victims of bullying suffers from sleep difficulties, bed-wetting, headaches, stomach aches, fatigue, and school-related problems (Brown, Birch, & Kancherla, 2005). This paper examines the effects that bullying has on the health of school-aged children. In particular, concerns addressed are depression, suicide ideation, mental health risks, and violent behavior.
Bullying in Schools Currently people are talking more and more seriously about bullying in schools and its effects. School Bullying is a type of abuse that typically takes place at school, and can be related to physical, verbal or emotional aggressions repeated over a period of time. Some people say that bullying does not exist and it is just something made up by the media to promote the sensationalism. However, bullying is a reality in our society. Parents and educators have established partnerships, in order to promote anti-bullying programs, because this is an issue that might cause victims psychological problems for a lifetime.
First, it is imperative that teachers should understand the cause of student’s behavior. Violent behavior among high school students is strongly related to family background, society influences, peer pressure, neglect, mental illness, poor communication methods and lack of proper parenting and a high teacher to student ratio (Bond, Toumbourou, Thomas, Catalano, & Patton, 2005). In addition, drug and substance can cause aggressive behavior (Bassarath, 2001). Understanding the cause of violent behavior enables teachers develop the necessary interventions such as counseling, positive peer group influence, improvement of the family support , engaging an experienced psychologist to advice the students, adult support and involving the student in extra curriculum activities such as sports. These strategies promote positive discipline improvement among students.
How can we as victims, witnesses, or observers make a change to cyberbullying ? Many parents seem to question their child’s actions on a day-to-day basis. Signs of bullying are things we must observe. Students may come home with damaged or missing items, have difficulty sleeping, or just seemed depressed. The reports on cyberbullies, ruined reputations and dangers have caused so much fear against parents.
We should raise alarms about the level of violent acts that plagues today’s children.”(Aldeman and Taylor 1). Faculty is maintaining regulations that are ensured by the state and school board to maintain the safety of students. The nation takes school violence very seriously, and will fight for the safety of the children. There are many types of violence that the children of America are experiencing every day at school. Most children are experiencing verbal assaults that are mainly insulting their outward appearances, threats from bullies who want to inflict the pain they feel on someone other than themselves, pushing, shoving, grabbing, and slapping from children who are more than likely physically abused at home, threats involving the intended use or actual use of knives and guns which are usually gang related, and theft.
“In Los Angeles 2003, Richard Jr. suffered abuse during high school at Don Boscov Technical Institute and resulted in depression and suicidal.” (Quinn) As a result, child abuse can bring down children’s self-esteem low and emotional instability in the mind and heart. A second negative effect of Child Abuse is that it creates physical pain in blameless children. The outcome of Child abuse can increase a child's risk of developing a number of health malfunctions. According to Department of Health Services, long term consequences of Child Physical Abuse can be brain damage, eye
This can mainly be seen between a student and a teacher, another adult, or just a simple student with student. The same attitude that is being used toward parents is used against school officials. Schools should enforce more disciplinary action against these rude teens so as to make them pay for their lack of respect. As teenagers go about their daily lives, they observe others being rude to their friends and their parents, so they in turn do the same. The amount of peer pressure is increasing; therefore, it results in conforming to their peers’ expectations.
A child could also feel as if any adult that approaches then could be harm to them. There are also signs that you can tell when a parent is abusing the child. An example would be if a parent was talking about the child saying he and or she was very bad or "evil". Another reason why a parent would possible physically abuse a child would be because they were abused themselves when they were younger. Second, Neglect: when a child is being neglected he and or she is consistently dirty and smells really horrid.
ABSTRACT Although substance abuse is always a serious matter, adolescents substance abuse is especially dangerous. Nowadays teenagers abuse all sorts of drugs, including not only alcohol, cigarette, prescription drugs but also marijuana and cocaine. This paper, based on secondary research, discusses why young people use and abuse drugs and how it affects teenage. In particular, adolescent substance use results from lack of parents’ supervision, the availability of drugs in the environment they live and suffering from stress. The findings of the research indicate that using substances leads to a lot of effects on health and work, especially for teens, it causes some brain problem and has influences on study at school.