Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear - Softcover

Goldman, Carrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062105086 ISBN 13: 9780062105080

Publisher: HarperOne, 2013

Synopsis

A highly-researched guide on responding to bullying, social conflict, and peer victimization. Weaving in beautiful prose and real stories with actionable advice and expert resources, Bullied is a must-read for parents, teachers and kids.

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From the Back Cover

Winner of National Parenting Publications Award and Mom's Choice Award!

Everybody knows how it feels to be ostracized, isolated or taunted, but most of us are at a loss when it comes to knowing how to make it better. In Carrie Goldman's groundbreaking book, Bullied, she offers concrete solutions for parents, teachers, and kids on how to effectively respond to painful situations—whether it is normal social conflict or more serious bullying.

Goldman's warm, engaging style combines the real-life stories of bullies, victims, bystanders, and their parents with the most cutting edge scientific research to provide a thorough analysis of cruelty in our culture. She explores how the pop culture permeates homes and schools, often impacting the way kids view those who are different from the accepted norm.

Bullied comprehensively addresses issues such as:

• The media's influence on aggression and bullying
• How to prevent cyberbullying, or how to manage cyberbullying once it has begun
• How to safely shift from being a bystander into a witness or an ally
• Effects of bullying on the brain, both for bullies and for victims
• Steps to take with the school if you are being bullied or sexually harassed
• A comprehensive look at restorative justice as a non-punitive response to bullying
• Techniques to help you deal with verbal taunting in the moment it is happening
• Identifying the difference between normal social drama and bullying
• Knowing when to ask for help and how to access effective help

The mother of a bullied first grader, Goldman's inspiring true story triggered an outpouring of support from online communities around the world. Bullied is a research-based book born from Goldman's blog post about the ridicule her daughter suffered for bringing a Star Wars thermos to school—a story that went viral on Facebook and Twitter before exploding everywhere, from CNN.com and Yahoo.com to sites all around the world. More than 200 people were interviewed for the book, including parents, teachers, kids, social workers, authors, celebrities, researchers, psychologists, actors, actresses, and school administrators. It is a wealth of knowledge packaged in a fascinating read.

About the Author

Carrie Goldman is the award-winning author of Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear (Harper Collins, August 2012).  Bullied has received a National Parenting Publication Award and a Mom's Choice Award, both at the gold medal level, for excellence in educational skills and tools.  

Carrie has written for The New York Times, CNN, Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Brain Child Magazine, Adoption.net, Babble, Alternet, and more. She has made appearances on NPR, BBC, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, Fox, HLN, HuffPost Live and Mondays with Marlo, along with countless other media outlets.  

In addition to her expertise in bullying dynamics, Carrie writes one of the nation's premier adoption blogs, Portrait of an Adoption, which has followers in more than 45 countries. 

She travels around the country giving keynote addresses and running workshops for companies, universities, schools and community groups about issues such as relational aggression and social conflict; digital citizenship; restorative justice; the sexualization of girls and women; the cultural effects of gender-based marketing; ethical adoption; raising adopted children, and the changing nature of adoption.
Carrie received her B.S. from Northwestern University and her M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management.  

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062105086
• ISBN 13: 9780062105080
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 368