Liza L.

Kaniteng SY 2012-2013

Bullying is a serious problem in schools today that needs attention and intervention. School bullying affects not only the safety and social well-being of the entire school community but most importantly it creates unhealthy children.

FACTS ABOUT SCHOOL BULLYING

There have been enough incidents of children committing suicide such that a new phrase has been coined: bullycide (British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2000) to refer to the act of killing oneself due to overvictimization.

FACTS ABOUT SCHOOL BULLYING

Bullying

hurts Bullying can make a student feel: Unwanted Rejected

What is Bullying?
physical or verbal actions repeated over time hostile intent causing distress to victims power discrepancy

POWER + AGGRESSION=

BULLYING

Key Elements of Bullying

Power inequality Bully's aim is to harm Victim's suffering Repeated over time

Types of Bullying
1.

Direct (Face to Face) Verbal bullying Physical-bullying Psychological bullying

Types of Bullying

2. Indirect
- Gossiping and Social aggression
telling people not to be friends with a student who is targeted as a victim spreading rumors excluding, isolating ranking or rating, humiliating manipulating friends and relationships writing hurtful or threatening e-mails and postings on web sites; and blackmailing, terrorizing, and proposing dangerous dares.

Cyber-bullying
threatening or harassing emails or instant messages (SMS) creating a website that belittles or ridicules another student taking unflattering or inappropriate pictures of other students without their permission and sharing them with others or posting them on an internet site stealing someone's password and sending mean messages to others tricking someone into sharing sensitive personal information while instant messaging and then forwarding that information to others using cell phones to send derogatory, threatening or harassing text messages

Characteristics of Bullying

Often verbal but in many cases: Physical Transitory

Bullying in the Philippines

What we need to do is to have a reorientation of the whole school system so that there will be a balance. Otherwise, the cases of bullying in schools will continue to escalate. These bullies today will grow up into the bullies of tomorrow heads of corporations, heads of countries who delight in the suffering of other people. It has to stop while the child or youth is still in school. Nobody deserves to be bullied.

Children who are bullied have:

Lower self esteem Higher rates of depression Higher absenteeism rates More suicidal ideation

Health Consequences of Bullying (Fekkes et al., 2003)

Bullied

Headache Sleep problems Abdominal pain Feeling tense Anxiety Feeling unhappy Depression scale moderate indication 49% 16% strong indication 16% 2%

Not bullied 16% 6% 42% 23% 17% 9% 20% 9% 28% 10% 23% 5%

EFFECTS OF BULLYING
Psychological maladjustment Physical manifestations of stress Sleep disturbance Poor school performance Victims of bullying have greater difficulty making friends and are withdrawn. Long-term consequences of repeated victimization may result to low self- esteem, increased anxiety, depression, and even suicidal behavior.

EFFECTS OF BULLYING

Long-term consequences of repeated victimization may result to low self- esteem, increased anxiety, depression, and even suicidal behavior. Irritability, unhappiness, outbursts of anger are also common. Reports of headaches, stomach pains (frequently in the morning before leaving for school), poor appetite and loss of sleep are likewise frequent. Visible cuts, scratches, bruises, loss of personal property because of theft or extortion are likewise noted as visible effects of bullying.

Usual Coping of Victims

Victimized

students often respond to bullying by escaping or engaging in avoidant behavior (not going to school, refuse to attend certain events, running away). In order to retaliate, some victims may become bullies in the end, continuing the cycle of violence.

Effects on the Bullies

Effects on the Bystanders

They may also suffer behavioral consequences including feelings of anger and helplessness for not knowing what to do during bullying incidences, nightmares or paranoia about being the next target, guilt for not taking action and fear of certain areas in school.

powerful, act commanding, authoritative and in control. they find satisfaction from inflicting injury and suffering on others resulting to their inability to feel empathy for their victims and justify their actions. A b unconstructive behavior

Over-All Scene

Bullies: Students who observe bullying at school may begin to think that bullying is an acceptable school behavior assuming that the adults at their school either don't care enough to stop it or can't stop it.

Perhaps there is nothing more painful for a parent to witness her own child being bullied.

Challenge

On the issue of bullying, NO ONE DESERVES TO SUFFER IN SILENCE! No one deserves to be a victim of bullying. Everyone should put their acts together to stop this vicious

Hand in hand, we say