(SV)Bullying: Preventing School Violence

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Children's Behavior Toward Bullying; Bullying Prevention in School; Teasing, Bullying and Making Jokes; Dress Code: Bullying and Sexual Harassment; Components of Bullying; School Bullying Policy; Overweight Youth: Bullying and Suicide; Adolescent Suicide as a Result of Bullying; Bullying and Suicide Ideation; Child Disclosure about Bullying; Future Orientation for Students; How Students Can Monitor Bullying; Teacher's Involvement in Bullying; Bully-Victim Roles; Conceptualizing and Defining Bullying in Schools; Educational Approaches with Students to Prevent Bullying; Characteristics of Bullies in Schools; Characteristics of Victims of Bullying in Schools; Characteristics of Reactive Bullies in Schools; Identifying Levels of School Violence; Intervention Principles for Working with School Bullies; Dealing with Incidents of Bullying; Effective Bullying Interventions and Implications for School Programs; Building Alliances to Reduce School Violence; Essential Elements of Successful Bullying Prevention Programs; and Youth Bullying Perpetration.