We are a student-led initiative dedicated to guiding students through the challenges of bullying and peer conflict in school, helping them build resilience, protect their well-being, and prevent self-harm or other serious mental health challenges. This includes informing them about the risk/protective factors of bullying and mental health, and beneficial tips to help them cope with bullying healthily.
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We did 15 days of mental health tips with advice on how to healthily cope with bullying or peer victimization.
Our tips were often based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a type of psychotherapy that helps people identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to emotional distress or mental health problems. CBT is based on the idea that our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and by modifying unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns, we can improve how we feel and function. Developed in the 1960s by psychiatrist Aaron Beck to treat depression by addressing patients' negative automatic thoughts, CBT built upon earlier behavioral therapies and has since become widely used. For bullying victims, CBT can be particularly helpful in challenging internalized negative beliefs about themselves, reducing anxiety and depression, and developing healthier coping strategies to recover from the psychological impact of bullying.
Our Mental Health Consultant was Dr. Valerie K. Cheng, PsyD, a pediatric psychologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Cheng received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. Dr. Cheng was especially useful in helping us understand the wide-ranging impacts of bullying on adolescent development and mental health. She explained how bullying can affect a teen's academic performance, social relationships, self-esteem, and overall well-being.
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