CONTENTS

About This Course

Table of Contents

1. School Bullying: What It Is and Why It Hurts
2. The Role of Bullies, Victims, and Witnesses
3. Factors Contributing to Bullying and Violence
4. Screening and Assessment
5. Treatment For Children and Adolescents
6. Prevention and Intervention
7. Legal and Ethical Issues

Supplements
Case Studies
Fact Sheets
References
Resources

The ABCs of Bullying
Addressing, Blocking, and Curbing School Aggression

Inventory of Wrongful Activities©

What bad things may have been done to you by a student (or students) in this school? Circle an item if it was a problem for you in the past month of school.

1. Hitting, pinching, or tripping me.
2. Pulling my hair or biting me.
3. Spitting on me.
4. Hiding my things to be mean to me.
5. Tearing my clothes, or breaking my things (such as pencil breaking).
6. Stealing from me.
7. Gossiping (saying bad things) about me.
8. Writing mean notes about me.
9. Leaving me out of a group or not having friends at school.
10. Making me afraid to talk in class or afraid to make mistakes because of insults.
11. Making it difficult for me to learn because I feel scared or angry or sad or upset about people being mean to me.
12. Making it difficult for me to attend school because I feel scared or angry or sad or upset about people being mean to me.
13. Scaring me or making threats.
14. Scaring me to take my money or homework (or to make me do something).
15. Scaring me or making threats with a weapon, like a knife, gun, or a club.
16. Saying mean things, calling me mean names, mean faces, or signals.
17. Making fun of me because people think that I am different in some way: (tall, short, large, thin, glasses, braces, etc.).
18. Insulting me because I am in a special class or program.
19. Insulting jokes (or comments) about my color or race.
20. Insulting my ability in sports.
21. Insulting my ability to learn in class.
22. Making fun of my clothes or making fun of my parents' car or home.
23. Making fun of my name, such as Fran Frankenstein or Plain Jane.
24. Insulting me with sexual talk or jokes (includes hand or face signals).
25. Writing sexual insults about me on the wall or desks.
26. Saying sexual gossip about me.
27. Calling me bad sexual names.
28. "Mooning" me or otherwise taking clothes off in front of me.
29. Pulling (or trying to pull) my clothes off or down.
30. Grabbing, pinching, kicking me in a sexual way.
31. Touching me in a bad way (sexual) -- kissing, pawing, or holding.

The next three ask your feelings about teachers' actions.

32. Feeling teachers don't like me as well as other students.
33. Feeling hurt or angry (once a week or more) about a teacher's actions.
34. Wishing my teacher would stop someone who is acting mean to me.

Please circle only the statements that are true for you. When are mean things usually said or done to you?

35. Before school.
36. Between classes.
37. After school.
38. During classes.
39. At lunch time.
40. At night school activities.

What places should adults watch better to stop people from acting mean to you?

41. Hallways.
42. The bathrooms.
43. The lunch room.
44. School grounds.
45. Gym lockers.

Please choose only one answer for these questions.

46. Do people act mean to you on the school bus?
    1. I do not ride a school bus.
    2. People do not act mean to me on the school bus I ride.
    3. People do act mean to me on the school bus I ride.
47. What do your teachers do when they see students acting mean?
    1. They do nothing. They ignore it.
    2. They do very little. They might say, "Quit."
    3. They stop the bullying and teach kids not to bully.
48. What do you do when you see people acting mean?
    1. I join in and act mean too.
    2. I do nothing. I ignore it.
    3. I ask people to stop acting mean. I try to stop it.
    4. I tell a teacher to stop the bullying. I report it.
49. What do you do when someone acts mean to you?
    1. I act mean right back.
    2. I do nothing. I ignore it or accept it.
    3. I tell them to stop acting mean to me.
    4. I tell a teacher. I report it.
50. How often are you bullied at school?
    1. I am almost never bullied at school.
    2. I am bullied about once a week.
    3. I am bullied about once a day.
    4. I am bullied more than once a day.

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