Course 3i - Bullying Prevention And Response - A Training Guide

Course overview

This online course is sponsored by CEU By Net for 3 clock hours of NBCC- and State Boards-approved continuing education credit. TCBAP-TAAP-TCB. The course materials were authored, copyrighted, and published in the public domain by StopBullying.gov, a collaborative project involving multiple Federal government agencies, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The StopBullying.gov Editorial Board which is ultimately responsible for authorship and publishing of this course is comprised of the following Federal entities: US Department of Education, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Federal Substance Abuse and Medical Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). GOALS OF THE COURSE: 1. Learn the specific definition and context of the term 'BULLYING' - what it IS and the many FORMS it takes, what it is NOT, WHERE it occurs, and WHO is likely to be a target vs. a perpetrator (or both - referred to as 'bully-victims'). 2. Know the environmental, social, and personal characteristics which correlate with various types of bullying - including the use of drugs and alcohol. 3. Understand the variable impact and effect which bullying has upon TARGETS and upon PERPETRATORS - including who is most likely to engage in self harm or attempted suicide, and what helps to mitigate the impact of being a target. 4. Know best practices for bullying prevention and early intervention. 5. Review compelling examples of strategies that work to bring bullying to a halt when it is identified. 6. Review the guiding principles of development of a Community Action Plan for prevention of bullying on a community-wide basis, and have free access to a Community Action Tool Kit that can be used for that purpose. This course is appropriate for all behavioral health professionals and educators who work with children and adolescents - whether the child in question is a perpetrator or is the subject of the bullying behavior. This is a self-paced course, which is under your own control to work through and complete. Although accessed online, you may save and print the course document and a copy of the interactive quiz for FREE, before making a decision to enroll in the course. You may read the study materials online or offline, as you prefer, but the interactive quiz MUST be taken online. As an unscored pre-test and study aid, we suggest that you print a copy of the online quiz and mark your answers on the paper copy as you read through the materials. Then, go online, click the 'SIGN UP NOW' button in the catalog if you have not already done so, pay your quiz fee (or enroll for FREE with an Annual Subscription), and take the ONLINE INTERACTIVE QUIZ. You can take a couple of minutes to transfer the quiz answers onto the screen (from your paper copy of the quiz onto which you have marked answers as you read through the material).