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

Environmental Situations and Potentially Stressful Events Checklist

Challenges to Primary Support Group

• Attachment relationship
• Death of a parent or other family member
• Marital discord
• Divorce
• Domestic violence
• Other family relationship problems
• Parent-child separation

Changes in Caregiving

• Foster care/adoption/institution
• Substance-abusing parents
• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Quality of nurture problem
• Neglect
• Mental disorder of parent or sibling
• Physical illness of parent or sibling

Other Functional Change in Family

• Addition of sibling
• Change in parental caregiver

Community of Social Challenges

• Acculturation
• Social discrimination and/or family isolation

Educational Challenges

• Illiteracy of parent
• Inadequate school facilities
• Discord with peers/teachers

Parent/Adolescent Work Challenges

• Unemployment
• Loss of job
• Adverse effect of work environment

Housing Challenges

• Homelessness
• Inadequate housing
• Unsafe neighborhood
• Dislocation

Economic Challenges

• Poverty
• Inadequate financial status

Legal System or Crime Problems/Other Environmental Situations

• Natural disaster
• Witness of violence

Health-Related Situations

• Chronic health conditions
• Acute health conditions

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