Bullying Health

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BULLYING

• Bullying is when someone keeps doing or saying things

to have power over another person.

• Bullying is a conscious, willful and deliberate activity

intended to harm, induce fear through the threat of

further aggression and create terror.

• Bullying is not about anger, it is about contempt. It is

an excuse to put someone down so the bully can feel

up.

• Bullying is a learned behavior. Home is where kids get

their first lessons in moral education.

• Bullying is when someone deliberately makes you feel miserable or threatens you.

Bullying makes people feel frightened and unhappy.

• Bullying is when a stronger, more powerful person hurts or frightens a smaller or weaker

person deliberately and repeatedly.

Types of Bullying

Physical Bullying • involves real bodily contact between a bully

and his or her victim, for the express purpose

of intimidation or control over the victim.

• any physical contact that would hurt or injure

a person like hitting, kicking, punching, etc.

• includes hitting, kicking, slapping, pinching,

biting, poking and choking. It also includes

destroying personal belongings.

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• the most troubled and the most likely to move on to serious criminal offenses.

Verbal Bullying

• includes name-calling, making offensive remarks,

insulting, making racist comments, constant teasing or

joking about a person's religion, gender, ethnicity,

socioeconomic status, or the way they look.

• include a bully making verbal threats of violence or

aggression against someone's personal property.

• use words to hurt or make fun of other people.

• the easiest to use but makes the biggest impression and

can occur in the least amount of time.

Emotional Bullying • includes indirect bullying, social

alienation and intimidation.

• includes spreading rumors or stories

about someone, telling others about

something that was told to you in private,

and excluding others from groups.

• affects the emotional side of the

victim (emotionally hurt).



• can make the victim feel very isolated and it can cause them to have a lower self-

esteem.

Cyber Bullying

• done by sending messages, pictures,

or information using electronic media,

computers (email & instant

messages), or cell phones (text

messaging & voicemail).

• any harassment that occurs via the

Internet. Vicious forum posts, name

calling in chat rooms, posting fake

profiles on web sites, and mean or

cruel email messages are all ways of

cyberbullying.

• contain the three essential elements of the offense that is conceived as “cyberbullying”:

first, the use by the perpetrator of modern information and communication

technology;

second, for the purpose of harassing, humiliating, hurting, or embarrassing; and

third, a victim who by reason of age, physical stature, or psychological make-up is

particularly vulnerable to being damaged thereby.

Types of Bullies



Confident Bully

• the confident bully is sure of himself and has a big, though not necessarily a strong ego.

• has a strong sense of entitlement and believes that those he/she bullies deserve his/her

treatment.

Social Bully

• uses rumors and gossip, shunning, verbal taunts to bully others.

• he or she can seem caring, but often is manipulating others to get his or her way.

• is jealous of the positive qualities of others.

• hides their poor sense of self.

Detached Bully/ Fully Armored Bully

• plans his attacks.

• is charming to everyone but his victims.

• cool and detached, the fully armored bully can be vicious and vindictive toward his

target, but charming to others.

• These are often children who are borderline sociopaths – all that matters is what they

want.

• Has a flat affect.

Hyperactive Bully

• is the child who has a real social problem.

• he may not pick up on social cues, and pesters others.

• is easily angered and often reads in hostile intent to actions that weren’t meant to be

hostile.



• struggles with academics and does not process social skills accurately.

• has trouble making friends.

Other Types of Bully

Bullied Bully

• is bullied by adults or older kids.

• strikes out viciously at those who hurt him/her or are smaller or weaker.

• is the least popular of the bully types.

The Bunch of Bullies

• a collective group of friends who want to make one person their scapegoat or wish to

exclude that person.

• usually perceived as “nice kids”.

• they know that it’s wrong, and that it hurts the victim, but may justify it with insistence

that the victim brought it on him or herself.

The Gang of Bullies

• a group drawn together in pursuit of control, domination, subjugation or power.

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lack empathy and remorse.

• have disregard for their lives and, therefore for the lives of their targets.

• a gang of bullies work together to hold power over the school.



“Each of these types of bullies shares common traits – they believe that they have

a right to behave as they do. They blame the victim for his own victimization. They

often believe that they are above the rules or are special in some way, and they

have little or no empathy for others.”

Factors that Lead to Bullying Behavior

Family

• The Brick Wall Family

For this family power = control.

These families are great training ground for bullies.

The parent has absolute authority, enforces order and always wins.

“Love” is highly conditional.

Teach what to think, not how to think.

• The Jelly Fish Family

Punishments and rewards are arbitrary and inconsistent.

Emotions rule the behavior of parents and children.

“Love” is highly conditional.

• The Backbone Family

These parents do not demand respect, they model and teach it.

They provide consistency, firmness, fairness and a peaceful structure.

Promotes perseverance, generosity and optimism.



There are lots of hugs, smiles and humor.

Love is unconditional.

Friends

• Peer pressure

• Dared or challenged

• A must-activity

School Environment

• Larger schools report a greater percentage of violence.

• Schools with clear rules of conduct enforced by the principal report less violence.

• Schools with students that report fair discipline practices report less violence.

• Small class size relates to less violence.

• Schools where students mention that they are in control of their lives report less violence.

• A principal who appears to be ineffective or invisible to students reports more violence in

school.

• Schools with principals who provide opportunities for teachers and students to participate

in decision-making report less violence.

• Cohesiveness among the teaching staff and the principal relates to less violence.

Warning Signs and Consequences that Child is being Bullied

• Shows an abrupt disinterest in school or refuses to go to school.

• Takes an unusual route to go to school.

• Suffers a drop in grades. Concentration suffers.

• Withdraws from school and family activities.

• Wants to be alone.

• Is hungry after school. Claims to have lost money for lunch or not be hungry at school.



• Takes parents’ money and makes lame excuses for needing money.

• Makes a beeline for the bathroom when they get home from school.

• Is sad, sullen or scared after receiving phone calls or emails.

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Does something out of character.• Stops talking about peers and everyday activities.

• Uses demeaning or derogatory language when speaking about peers.

• Has disheveled, torn or missing clothing.

• Have physical injuries not consistent with explanation.

• Is exhausted. Has headaches, stomachaches and is unable to sleep.

Bullying can cause negative academic, physical, social, emotional, and psychological

consequences on victims, bullies, and witnesses. These consequences can be short-term or

long-term. Bullying can also greatly affect the overall climate of a school.

Mental or Physical Health-Related Consequences

• victims may experience many immediate mental or physical health-related consequences.

• have more anxiety, sadness, sleep difficulties, low self-esteem, headaches, stomach pain,

and general tension than their peers who are not being bullied.

• suffer from anxiety disorders, such as depression, separation anxiety, panic disorder, etc.

• this psychological stress can cause victims' bodies to be less resistant to disease and

infection, and therefore they may get sick more often.

Social Area Consequences

• victims have few friends or none at all.

•very hard for them to make friends.

• leads to feelings of isolation and believing that they are not even worthy of having

friends.

• other kids often do not want to become friends with the victims, because they are afraid

that they will be bullied as well.



• Another reason that other kids do not hang around with victims is because they worry

that peers will not like them if they associate with the victims.

Learning or School Consequences

• victim can result in poor school attendance, because many victims become afraid of

going to school.

• they are also scared of riding the school bus or using the bathroom at school.

• Victims often receive lower grades due to attendance problems, and also due to their

stress and worry.

• A vicious cycle can occur because the victim's poor school performance can lead to

embarrassment and anxiety, which can in turn cause them to be picked on even more.

Intervention

• Teach specific skills and values in the classroom.

• Integrate skills into other curricula whenever possible.

• Hold parent meetings.

• Establish a protocol for intervening in or investigating a bullying incident.

• Determine the impetus for the behavior.

• Reinforce alternative behaviors.

• Work with parents.

• Address off-campus bullying.

• Conduct schoolwide bullying prevention activities.

Things you can do to stop the Bully!

• You must intervene immediately with discipline and not punish.

• Create opportunities to “do good”

• Nurture empathy

• Teach friendship skills such as: respectful and peaceful ways to relate to others.



• Closely monitor your child’s TV viewing, video game playing, computer activities,, and

music.

• Engage in more constructive, energizing activities.

• “Willing Good” speaking and doing what is right.

References

Olweus, D. (1997). Bully/victim problems in school: Facts and intervention. European Journal of

Psychology of Education, 12(4), 495-510.

Coloroso, B. The Bully, The Bullied and The Bystander.

Philippine Normal UniversityCollege of Science

Department of Biological Science

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Dr. Brian Limson

November 2010

Topic Outline

Topic: Bullying

I. Definition

II. Types of Bullying

A. Verbal

B. Physical

C. Emotional

D. Cyber Bullying

III. Types of Bullies

A. Confident



B. Social

C. Detached

D. Hyperactive

E. Bullied Bully

F. The Bunch of Bully

G. The Gang of Bullies

IV. Factors that Lead to Bullying Behavior

A. Family

1. The Brick Wall family

2. The Jelly Fish Family

3. The Backbone Family

B. Friends

C. School Environment

V. Warning Signs of Bully VictimVI. Consequences

A. Mental or Physical Health-Related Consequences

B. Social Area Consequences

C. Learning or School Consequences

Intervention / Solution to the Dilemma



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