ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Bullying in Schools provides a comprehensive review and analysis of what is known about the worldwide bullying phenomena. It is the first volume to systematically review and integrate what is known about how cultural and regional issues affect bullying behaviour and its prevention.
Key features include the following:
- Comprehensive – forty-one chapters bring together conceptual, methodological, and preventive findings from this loosely coupled field of study, thereby providing a long-needed centerpiece around which the field can continue to grow in an organized and interdisciplinary manner.
- International Focus – approximately forty-percent of the chapters deal with bullying assessment, prevention, and intervention efforts outside the USA.
- Chapter Structure – to provide continuity, chapter authors follow a common chapter structure: overview, conceptual foundations, specific issues or programs, and a review of current research and future research needs.
- Implications for Practice – a critical component of each chapter is a summary table outlining practical applications of the foregoing research.
- Expertise – the editors and contributors include leading researchers, teachers, and authors in the bullying field, most of whom are deeply connected to organizations studying bullying around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |255 pages
Foundations for Understanding Bullying
chapter |11 pages
A Social-Ecological Model for Bullying Prevention and Intervention
Understanding the Impact of Adults in the Social Ecology of Youngsters
chapter |14 pages
Bullying in Primary and Secondary Schools
Psychological and Organizational Comparisons
chapter |11 pages
Relations Among Bullying, Stresses, and Stressors
A Longitudinal and Comparative Survey Among Countries
chapter |8 pages
Victimization and Exclusion
Links to Peer Rejection, Classroom Engagement, and Achievement
chapter |11 pages
Popular Girls and Brawny Boys
The Role of Gender in Bullying and Victimization Experiences
chapter |13 pages
Cyberbullying
The Nature and Extent of a New Kind of Bullying, In and Out of School
part |96 pages
Assessment and Measurement of Bullying
chapter |21 pages
Assessment of Bullying/Victimization
The Problem of Comparability Across Studies and Across Methodologies
chapter |12 pages
Variability in the Prevalence of Bullying and Victimization
A Cross-National and Methodological Analysis
part |227 pages
Research-Based Prevention and Intervention
chapter |10 pages
A School Climate Intervention that Reduces Bullying by a Focus on the Bystander Audience Rather than the Bully and Victim
The Peaceful Schools Project of the Menninger Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine
chapter |23 pages
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
Implementation and Evaluation over Two Decades
chapter |13 pages
From Peer Putdowns to Peer Support
A Theoretical Model and how it Translated into a National Anti-Bullying Program
chapter |15 pages
Prevention of Bullying at a Systemic Level in Schools
Movement from Cognitive and Spatial Narratives of Diametric Opposition to Concentric Relation
