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Teasing
Teasing
•Unintentional aggression
•Power balance between victim and aggressor
•Stops after victim says stop
Bullying
Bullying
•Intentional aggression
•A power imbalance between aggressor and victim
•And repetition of the aggression after victim says stop
Types of Bullying
•Physical bullying
Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property. Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage.
•Verbal bullying
Verbal bulling includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target.
•Social bullying
. It is designed to harm someone’s social reputation and / or cause humiliation. Social bullying can include, lying and spreading rumor's, negative facial or physical gestures, menacing or contemptuous looks, playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate, mimicking unkindly, encouraging others to socially exclude someone, damaging someone’s social reputation or social acceptance.
•Cyber bullying
Intentional and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, phones, and other electronic devices.
AMAZE Org. “Teasing: Not Just Harmless Fun.” YouTube, 30 Aug. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKDsIuMaKU. Accessed 31 Mar. 2022.
Pacers National Bullying Prevention Month
•Started in 2006, National Bullying Prevention month is October.
•All over the USA, the during the month of October, communities work together to raise awareness about bullying.
•One easy way to show your support is to wear orange and participate in Unity Day.
•Pacers website is linked here: https://www.pacer.org/bullying/
Citation: “PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center.” Pacer.org, 2022, www.pacer.org/bullying/. Accessed 31 Mar. 2022.
Defining bullying:
•The definition of bullying recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes three characteristics: intentional aggression, a power imbalance between aggressor and victim, and repetition of the aggression. Each of these criteria poses challenges for law and policy.
•Intentional aggression is broad, inclusive and means that bullying can be physical, verbal or social. As a result, bullying can affiliate with many other behaviors such as criminal assault, extortion, hate crimes and sexual harassment. But in its milder forms, bullying can be difficult to differentiate from ordinary teasing, horseplay or conflict. With regard to social or relational bullying, it may be hard to draw the line between children's friendship squabbles and painful social exclusion.
•A power imbalance between aggressor and victim — distinguishes bullying from other forms of peer aggression. However, a power imbalance is difficult to assess. Although judgments about physical size and strength are obvious in cases of physical bullying, bullying is most often verbal or social and requires that there be a power differential such as popularity, race or sexual orientation.
•If repetition is seen as a necessary criterion for intervention, this might complicate enforcement of bullying rules and policies, because observers would have the added burden of detecting multiple incidents of abusive behavior before they can conclude that bullying has occurred. Most definitions recognize that a single bullying incident can be sufficiently harmful or likely to be repeated that it can be regarded as bullying.
Bullying prevention resources and websites:
“NRS Live Chat.” Icarol.com, 2022, na0messaging.icarol.com/ConsumerRegistration.aspx?org=64382&pid=254&cc=en-US.
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CDC. “BAM! Body and Mind.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Aug. 2021, www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/bam/teachers.htm.
“How to Stop Bullying at School | Girlshealth.gov.” Girlshealth.gov, 2014, www.girlshealth.gov/bullying/school/index.html.
Centers. “Be Someone’s Hero.” YouTube, 2 Oct. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=64LNwrd0fHg.
“FBI Kids | Federal Bureau of Investigation.” Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2021, www.fbi.gov/fbi-kids.
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