Saturday, November 6, 2010

Chapter 5- Summary, conclusion, recommendation


Summary:

Bullying is a form of abuse. It involves repeated acts over time attempting to create or enforce one group or person's power over another group or person, thus an "imbalance of power”. Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as psychological manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home and neighborhoods. It is even a common factoring migration. Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes and even between countries. Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person. 

Bullying at work is when someone tries to intimidate another worker, often in front of colleagues. It is usually, though not always, done to someone in a less senior position. It is similar to harassment, which is where someone's behavior is offensive. For example, making sexual comments, or abusing someone's race, religion or sexual orientation.

Bullying at work is a much greater problem than people once realized. It’s bad for the individuals and for the organizations they work for. Bullying behavior is not about being bossy. It’s not about the occasional, angry outburst on the subject of meeting work targets or reaching and maintaining standards. It’s about persistent criticism and condemnation.



                                                         





                                             The effects of bullying can be serious and even fatal. Victims of bullying can suffer from long term emotional and behavioral problems.  Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, lead to low self-esteem and increased susceptibility to illness.

Conclusion:

Bullying is a serious problem that can dramatically affect the ability of students to progress academically and socially. A comprehensive intervention plan that involves all students, parents, and school staff is required to ensure that all students can learn in a safe and fear-free environment.

Bullying topic is very complicated to solve.
It must be treated with a firm and pedagogical discipline, with some rules that everybody must follow. If these rules aren’t followed, the bully will be penalized. It is necessary for the bully, because he must understand that violence isn’t a solution, the objective is that he is sorry for his actions and doesn't have it happen/ do it again.

Recommendations:

·        Let’s recognize bullying as a complex and abusive behavior with potentially serious social and mental health consequences for children and adolescents.

·        We must advocate for federal support of research to develop and test programs to prevent or reduce bullying.

·        We can urge physicians to be vigilant for signs and symptoms of bullying and screen for psychiatric co morbidities in at-risk patients.

·        We must advocate for federal, state, and local resources to increase the capacity of schools to provide safe and effective educational programs by which students can learn to reduce and prevent violence.
                     
·        We must advocate for expanded funding for programs for assessment, consultation, and intervention services for bullies and their victims.

           
·        We should urge parents and other caretakers of children and adolescents to be actively involved in their child’s school and community activities and teach children how to interact socially, resolve conflicts, deal with frustration, and cope with anger and stress.






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·        (http://www.google.com.ph/imglanding?q=anti-bullying+strategy&um=1&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=677&tbs=isch:1&tbnid=vSn_QIzioCRvrM:&imgrefurl=http://bullybehindyou.blogspot.com/2009/03/bosses-urged-to-stop-bullyi)
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