Cowie / Myers School Bullying and Mental Health

Risks, intervention and prevention
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-134-97736-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten

Reihe: The Mental Health and Well-being of Children and Adolescents

Bullying amongst young people is a serious and pervasive problem and recent rapid advances in electronic communication technologies have provided even more tools for bullies to exploit in their pursuit of such behaviour. School Bullying and Mental Health aims to collate, in one volume, current research evidence and theoretical perspectives about school bullying in order to identify the nature and extent of bullying and cyberbullying at school and its impact on children and young people’s emotional health and well-being.

There are many negative consequences of bullying, and children and young people who have been victimised are often prone to suffering long-term psychological problems, such as increased levels of anxiety, depressive symptoms, social isolation and loneliness, as well as suicidal ideation. Perpetrators of bullying have also been found to be at heightened risk of experiencing problems such as anxiety and depression, as well as eating disorders and antisocial behaviour. This book aims to tackle these negative consequences and bullying culture itself by examining the social and cultural contexts which perpetuate such behaviour from childhood through adolescence and potentially into adulthood.

Including contributions from an international team of authors, this book explores current interventions to prevent and reduce school bullying and to alleviate its negative effects on the mental health of children and young people. With discussion of the implications for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in this important field, the book will be essential reading for those interested in bullying culture and the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowie, Helen

Myers, Carrie-Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung Konflikte, Gewalt, Mobbing: Prävention und Bewältigung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Introduction

1. Overview

Helen Cowie and Carrie-Anne Myers

2. Theoretical perspectives on the continuities of bullying between social contexts

Maili Pörhöla

Section 2: The Nature of School Bullying and its Impact on the Emotional Health and Well-being of Children and Young People

3. Young people’s reasoning about religious minorities and asylum seekers: implications for bullying

Harriet Tenenbaum and Martyn Ruck

4. Levels of bullying in schools: findings from the Millenium Cohort Study

Carrie-Anne Myers and Kirstine Hansen

5. Homophobic bullying in schools

Ian Rivers

6. Boundaries of bullying: When does bullying behaviour become criminal?

Carrie-Anne Myers

7. Exploring the nature and extent of hate crime in schools and interventions to combat it

Rashid Aziz

8. Contested and complex terrain: sexual violence in UK schools

Kerry Lee

Section 3: The Social and Cultural Contexts which Challenge or Facilitate School Bullying

9. The role of the bystander in reducing and preventing school bullying: Bystanding or Standing By?

Helen Cowie and Carrie-Anne Myers

10. Fostering resilience in vulnerable children

Carmel Cefai

11. The relation of social media to school bullying

Holly Powell-Jones

12. Bullying and resilience within a Neoliberal framework: implications for mental health and well-being?

Wendy Sims-Schouten

13. The moderating effect of father acceptance in the relationship between bullying/victimization and depressive symptoms in school-age children

Theodoros Giovazolias and Maria Malikiosi-Loizos

Section 4: Evaluation of Interventions and Policies to Counteract and Prevent School Bullying and Foster Emotional Resilience in Children and Young People

14. Paper tiger or effective guidelines: the use of policies and procedures to address school bullying

Marilyn Campbell

15. Reducing school bullying: a whole-school approach

Keith Sullivan

16. Evaluation of the Anti-Bullying Ambassadors programme: the impact of peers on school climate

Carrie-Anne Myers

17. The role of the counsellor in supporting victims of bullying

Maria Luca

18. Addressing the mental health and emotional needs of children who engage in bullying behaviour

Helen Cowie and Pat Colliety

19. The impact of social and emotional training (SET) on school bullying in Palestine and Sweden

Birgitta Kimber

Section 5: The Way Forward

20. Commentary: Continuities into Higher Education: What can we learn from research into bullying at university?

Sheri Bauman

21. Commentary: Continuities into the workplace: What can we learn from research into workplace bullying?

Iain Coyne

22. The way forward

Helen Cowie and Carrie-Anne Myers

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Cowie is Emeritus Professor at the University of Surrey in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, where she specialises in strategies to counteract school bullying, and Honorary Professor at Brunel University. She is also Visiting Researcher at Regent’s University London. She has published over 100 publications in refereed journals on the subject of mental health in youth, emotional development, cyberbullying and peer support. She has also authored and co-authored a number of influential books.

Carrie-Anne Myers is a lecturer in Criminology at City University London, where she researches and teaches in a number of key areas, including: childhood; youth and adolescence; school violence and bullying; victims, victimology and Criminal Justice policy; gender and feminist criminology; and media and youth cultures of consumption. She has published a number of publications in refereed journals, including Pastoral Care in Education and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, focusing on young people bullying, cyberbullying and violence.