Banishing bullying behavior : transforming the culture of peer abuse / SuEllen Fried and Blanche Sosland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, SuEllen.

Contributor:

Sosland, Blanche E. (Blanche Eisemann), 1936-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bullying in schools--Prevention.

Bullying in schools.

School violence--Prevention.

School violence.

School children--Conduct of life.

School children.

Physical Description:

xiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2011]

Summary:

Banishing Bullying Behavior challenges students, parents, educators, education support professionals, administrators, counselors, and policy makers to confront the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society. This book is filled with insights, personal stories, anecdotal material, and strategies that are directed to the widest audience possible. It urges us to become change agents and empower children to transform their pain, rage, and revenge to empathy, kindness, and healing. SuEllen Fried and Blanche Sosland tackle the demanding questions about physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, cyber, sibling, and even summer camp bullying.

SuEllen Fried created BullySafeUSA, a bullying prevention program that has been introduced to ninety thousand students in thirty-six states. She has coauthored four books on bullying; is a past chairman of Prevent Child Abuse America; has appeared on the TODAY Show, on MSNBC, and in an A&E documentary; and was a Participant in the 2011 White House Conference on Bullying Prevention.

Blanche Sosland spent most of her teaching career at the college and university level, but she also worked in classrooms ranging from early childhood to middle school. Her areas of expertise include diagnosis and remediation of reading problems in the classroom and twice-exceptional children. Book jacket.

Contents:

Transforming the culture

Dimensions and overview of bullying

Back to bullying basics

Getting specific about bullying

Cyberbullying: unimagined cruelty

Bully-free summer camps

Bullying from preschool through adolescence

Helping special needs students achieve success

The challenge of changing the culture

Change agents

Empowering students in the solution

Ten burning questions posed by educators

Parents as protectors, partners, and change agents

Letters from children.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1610484339

9781610484329

1610484320

9781610484336

OCLC:

724674267

Publisher Number:

99948023096