Bully Busters: A Teacher's Manual for Helping Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders - Softcover

Dawn Newman-Carlson; Arthur M. Horne; Christi L. Bartolomucci; Horne, Arthur M.; Bartolomucci, Christi L.; Newman, Dawn A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878224521 ISBN 13: 9780878224524

Publisher: Research Pr Pub, 2003

Synopsis

Emphasizes both control and prevention of bullying behavior. Organized into seven modules * Increasing Awareness of Bullying * Recognizing the Bully * Recognizing the Victim * Taking Charge: Interventions for Bullying Behavior * Assisting Victims: Interventions and Recommendations * The Role of Prevention * Relaxation and Coping Skills. Each module includes a teacher information component and several classroom activities intended to increase student participation in efforts to reduce and prevent bullying, as well as to strengthen the teacher/student relationship.

About this title

About the Author

Arthur (Andy) M. Horne, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Georgia in Athens. Research on violence reduction and bully-victim interventions is a primary focus of his work. For more than a quarter century, Andy has been engaged in funded research projects examining family, school, and community risk and protective factors related to childhood aggression and positive social development. His current projects include GREAT Schools and Families, a program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for reducing violence in schools, the I-CARE Project examining positive character development, and the Bully Prevention Project which examines effective ways of reducing bullying in schools and communities. He has also authored and edited books on group counseling and group therapy, counseling boys and adolescent males, and family therapy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Specialists in Group Work.
Christi Bartolomucci, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and is the Co-Director of Kids On The Move in Atlanta, Georgia. At this comprehensive center for children and adolescents with AD/HD, Dr. Bartolomucci serves as a clinician, consultant, and program developer. Christi received her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from The University of Georgia. She completed a Clinical Child internship at The University of Louisville and a post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at Emory University. Since 1997, she has been actively involved with the Bully Prevention Project - a team effort committed to better understanding and addressing childhood bullying and victimization, childhood aggression, and the healthy development of children.
Dawn Newman-Carlson, Ph.D., a health psychologist, is the President of Carlson Health Promotion, P.A. Her primary practice is located in Jacksonville, FL. She earned her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology at the University of Georgia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Health Psychology at the University of Florida. Dr. Carlson was the co-developer and program administrator of the Bully Prevention Project. As a consultant, she trains school personnel and counselors in the areas of childhood aggression and bully prevention. She works with families and school systems to create lifestyles that promote health and self-esteem for children and adolescents. Dr. Carlson conducts Bully Busters training workshops and has been invited to present the Bully Busters program at national conferences.

Review

As how-to manuals for teachers, these two volumes. . . serve as comprehensive educational and team building guides, and they function as classroom curriculum resources. For K-8 school counselors who are looking to take the lead with a proven program to combat bullying, Bully Busters deserves serious consideration. --Larry L. Hill, Counseling Today, American Counseling Association

Bully Busters offers guidelines for teacher support groups and information about why bullies are bullies, why victims are victims, and what can be done to prevent bullying in the classroom. . . . Bully Busters is important not only because it provides a medium for problems to begin to be understood and changed by students, but because it is a reminder that teachers are important in facilitating that understanding and change. --Youth Today, The Newspaper on Youth Work

Classroom activities center around promoting self-concept, listening skills, and discussions of bullying. . . . Considerable attention is paid to training areas, including cognitive retraining, empathy skills, social skills, anger control, and problem-solving. --Steven R. Rose, Social Work with Groups

Edition details

• Publisher: Research Pr Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0878224521
• ISBN 13: 9780878224524
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272