Putting an end to bullying and school violence (SOP33)

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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School violence and bullying are a concern for parents and educators alike. As a result, thousands of school districts have implemented anti-bullying programs. In this episode, psychologist and education expert Dorothy Espelage, PhD, talks about the effectiveness of these programs and what parents and schools can continue to do to curb everything from cyberbullying to dating violence. APA is currently seeking proposals for APA 2020, click here to learn more https://convention.apa.org/proposals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Cyberbullying and violence can be a persistent problem for kids of all ages, in schools, and even at home.
0:18.0	One out of three students is bullied during the school year, according to the
0:22.1	National Center for Educational Statistics. It's a problem that is dramatically affecting the mental
0:27.6	health of young people in a variety of ways. In this episode, we speak with one psychologist about
0:33.2	why school-wide anti-bullying and anti-violence programs are so important.
0:38.5	I'm Audrey Hamilton, and this is Speaking of Psychology.
0:52.9	Dorothy Espelage is a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
0:59.2	She has been conducting research on bullying, sexual harassment, dating violence, and gang violence for the last 20 years.
1:05.8	She is associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology and his author of more than 120 peer review journal
1:11.4	articles. Welcome, Dr. Espelage. Thank you for having me. The psychological study of bullies
1:16.7	and bullying has come a long way. I think there's been a lot more awareness of the issue and what it
1:21.4	means for children's mental health. Has all this awareness made a difference from what you've
1:26.5	seen in the research and the prevalence of bullying and aggression in schools?
1:30.3	Certainly there has been a heightened awareness.
1:32.5	We have studied it for a number of decades, but it wasn't until 2011 when President Obama had his White House conference on bullying that really the public took notice of bullying.
1:43.3	It's difficult to estimate whether or not this awareness has contributed to a decrease in the prevalence of it,
1:48.7	but certainly we do know from national statistics that in some schools,
1:52.6	where there's lower violence, we've seen less bullying.
1:56.0	But certainly in our studies, and we're engaged in studies in hundreds of schools right now,
1:59.9	it's still alive and well in our schools, and we need to be concerned in hundreds of schools right now. It's still alive
2:01.1	and well in our schools and we need to be concerned about it and it's a difficult behavior
2:05.8	to decrease. What do we know about what predicts involvement and bullying and aggression?
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