A Heath Promoting School Approach To Bullying Written By Penni Clelland
Bullying can be defined as a physical or a verbal act of aggression, by an individual as well as a “group process” that has been repetitively exerted towards an individual who feels that they are unable to defend for him or herself. In the “a heath promoting school” approach to bullying, written by Penni Cushman and Tracy Clelland. The authors had stated that Olweus (1993) defines bullying by 3 characteristics as; “It is intentionally harmful, it is repetitive in nature and there is a power differential between the aggressor and victim,”
Traditional bullying is generally separated into physical bullying and verbal bullying.
For the most part, boys and girls are more similar than they are different, but in this case, girls tend to bully other
girls indirectly through the peer group, rather than bullying their target victim directly and the type of bullying girls they tend to experience is verbal with 67.1% of girls had stated that they had experienced more cases of a verbal act, whereas for boys 89.3% would experience more types of physical bullying than girls.
Physical bullying is common for boys and leads to physical injuries from minor bumps but some injuries may require them to get hospitalized. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem for young people and can cause long term damages to victims and bullies. It can cause psychological damage for most bullied victims as they have no ways to approach the situation, feeling that they have no escape through these online threats which may cause some long terms and short terms effects to the bullied victims such as depression, anxiety, poor school attendance and performance, and feeling fear and mistrust toward others. If it’s not acceptable offline, it shouldn’t be acceptable online. Other experiences and behaviours the bullied victims may face are fear, humiliation, being degraded, beaten and ridiculed
Traditional bullying is generally separated into physical bullying and verbal bullying.
For the most part, boys and girls are more similar than they are different, but in this case, girls tend to bully other
girls indirectly through the peer group, rather than bullying their target victim directly and the type of bullying girls they tend to experience is verbal with 67.1% of girls had stated that they had experienced more cases of a verbal act, whereas for boys 89.3% would experience more types of physical bullying than girls.
Physical bullying is common for boys and leads to physical injuries from minor bumps but some injuries may require them to get hospitalized. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem for young people and can cause long term damages to victims and bullies. It can cause psychological damage for most bullied victims as they have no ways to approach the situation, feeling that they have no escape through these online threats which may cause some long terms and short terms effects to the bullied victims such as depression, anxiety, poor school attendance and performance, and feeling fear and mistrust toward others. If it’s not acceptable offline, it shouldn’t be acceptable online. Other experiences and behaviours the bullied victims may face are fear, humiliation, being degraded, beaten and ridiculed