Bullying And Its Effect On Children

Bullying in Australian primary schools has become an epidemic, having a negative effect on children’s learning and development (Lodge, 2014). Therefore, it is crucial that schools and teachers are aware, understand and educated on how bullying can impact children’s learning and development; to be able to effectively implement policies, respond, educate and eliminate bullying in the school environment.

What effect does bullying have on children? Cases of bullying among children are increasing in the United states and all over the world causing serious effects on them. Technology has allowed the bullying problem to increase but also has increased the chances of opportunity to help stop this problem. Major Effects caused by bullying in children are Anxiety which can cause children to worry excessively, Depression which can lead to mood changes and self esteem problems that lead to lack of love for there selves.

Before discussing the effects of bullying, it’s important to know the definition of bullying. It has numerous definitions, all of which are related to aggression and control of power by intimidation. Bullying is generally defined as an intentional act of harm, either physical or emotional, upon those that are considered inferior or weaker. Not only that, but it can also be harmful to children and adolescents who are constantly moving through their identity development (Kira, Lewandowski, Ashby, Somers, Chiodo, & Odenat, 2014). It is also said that involvement in bullying, as the bully or victim, has negative effects on the physical and psychological health of children and on their future psychosocial adjustment as adults (Vaillancourt, Hymel, & McDougall, 2013).

The overall topic of the recent findings discusses bullying and the major problems that are caused by bullying. The general definition of bullying is any form of aggression action towards another person in order to feel superior. Often times, for no justifiable reason. It has become clear to many people that bullying is a continuous problem that seems to have no solution. Bullying is a topic of interest that needs to be addressed. Bullying is a destructive force because the experiences can vary in severity, deteriorate a person’s self-esteem, and can have disastrous consequences.

If a student witnesses a group of kids huddled around and teasing a shy girl in their class about the way her hair is braided, that student may try to decide if one should say something. When no one else is getting involved and one does not want to be a new part of their group ridicule, it may give pause. Any pause in this situation is too much time wasted while another child suffers at the hands of bullying.

In example #2 of the bullying cases in which the female middle school student committed suicide after being harassed by her peers over a “sexting” photo, the school demonstrated significant incompetence in both government anti-bullying protocols as well as legal, moral, and ethical imperatives based on bullying research in the field of school psychology. This is shown by the exclusive focus on the student’s sexting photo and not on the later acts of bullying and their psychological implications in an environment populated by young people at a critical stage of cognitive and social development. Although the federal trial court dismissed the parent’s lawsuit based on “the school not being in a custodial relationship with the student at the time of the suicide,” this ruling represents a superficial understanding of the psychological impact of bullying in a school context and the school’s ethical and moral responsibility to develop a comprehensive plan to create an anti-bullying culture among faculty, students, and parents that extends beyond the school year. In the following, I will discuss in detail the specific areas of incompetence demonstrated by the school and how and why this incompetence weakens its moral, ethical, and legal foundation.

Bullying in children and adolescence is becoming an ever increasing issue as it is prevalent in various forms including physical, verbal, relational, and cyber space (Wang et al., 2011). Bullying can be defined as a subtype of aggression that involves repeated exposure to negative actions with the intent to cause harm or discomfort and an imbalance of power between the bully and victim (Hong, Kral, & Sterzing, 2014). Youth who are being bullied have been found to have significant risk of developing depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and attempts, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (Yen et al., 2014). Studies have shown that depression is associated with exposure to bullying, so it is crucial that health care professionals

Bullying can happen as young as the child is placed in an environment associating with other children. As a matter of fact, bullying can happen at home when the child has another sibling also known as sibling bullying. There are several types of bullying from physical, social, verbal to cyber bullying. In this research paper, it will cover how bullying as a whole affects the child’s development. Bullying is typically a form of an ongoing aggressive behaviour intentionally directed at a certain individual or individuals to cause fear and harming towards the other person’s feeling or self-esteem by doing so, the bully can earn status and power. Even though, there are still many issues happening about bullying; bullying is still a huge problem in today’s world. In fact, bullying is disguise as a normal rite of passage for children, parents and guardians do not see how it is affecting the child’s development, however, it is affecting their health issues, self-esteem, and suicide and even cause a slower development.

Bullying is considered to be aggressive behavior that is repeated or has the potential to be repeated, over a period of time. The actions of bullying can include spreading rumors, making threats, verbally or physically attacking someone, or purposely isolating someone from a group. As children attempt to make sense of traumatic events, new behavioral problems can stem from re-experienced occurrences. Some children affected may disassociate themselves from the situations and absorb themselves in behaviors that generate negative attention. Many bullies themselves have experienced difficulties within their own lifestyles. Bullying can stem from existing problems or challenges from home such as divorced parents, violent episodes inside the home, foster care, drug abuse or sexual abuse. Unfortunately, sometimes leading to catastrophic or disastrous outcomes.

Bullying is a problem that affects individuals from all age groups, but mainly widespread among adolescents. It includes behaviors that focus on making someone else feel insufficient by mocking or harassing them. Bullying involves using physical violence, emotional harassment, and verbally belittling speech. It entails active actions with the intention of ostracizing another person (Howard, Flora & Griffin, 1999). Physical harassment is a form of bullying where the bully attempts to dominate another teenager physically (Stevens, 2010). It consists of punching, kicking, and other physical harmful activities, which are used to introduce fear in the victim and possible coerce them to do something (Howard, Flora & Griffin, 1999). Verbal bullying entails using demeaning language to destroy another person’s self-image (Stevens, 2010). Bullies who use the verbal techniques tease a lot and use sarcasm to hurt others’ feelings or humiliate the other teen especially in front of their friends or age mates (Thornberg et al., 2012). On the other hand, bullies who aim at getting another person to feel isolated use emotional techniques (Espelage & Holt, 2001). The bully uses this strategy to make other teenagers exclude the person being bullied. Today, cyberbullying is also becoming a very real problem for most teenagers. This type of harassment can be particularly devastating because the victim cannot find any safe place in the virtual

This website was made to make sure that there is information available to parents, teachers, lawyers and professionals on how to handle bullying, ways to prevent it as well as explaining what bullying is. My stance is that there should be more steps taken to prevent bullying. On this website, a person is able to see what all the types of harassment are. Harassment ranges from sexual, racial, disability to gender. In elementary school, I too went through bullying because of my disability. I know that it can be hard for a student to get through the day when someone is picking on them and distracting them because of something that they can not control. Kids do not realize that the tormenting can make one feel down and not wanting to be in a

I grew up in the 1970’s, when acts of bullying were considered more as a rite of passage. Today, we recognize the act as a type of violence. More scrutiny has been focused on this issue than it ever has been in the past. There are rules in schools, churches, as well as anywhere children or young adults interact. One might presume that this would show that this act of domination and humiliation would be on a serious decline. This is not the case. While some of the increase in bullying is because it was not considered a serious problem, nor tracked when I was a child, the means of bullying has never had greater for humiliating others.

In Todays, society bullying is shown more often in schools, especially high schools. The type of bullying noted and documented are Physical bullying, Verbal Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Covent or Hidden bullying. Kids use cyberbullying against each other to discriminate their friends or just to make fun of them online. In school campus, kids use Physical bullying to manhandle their peers because they want to feel better and show that they have more power, or just because they are having domestic issues at home. They usually perform these acts in front of a crowd to get more attention making them feel more powerful. When using Verbal abuse kids use words in a negative way to degrade others, or to humiliate them in front of their peers because of what they wear, or because of their economic standing. When using Covent or hidden bullying kids spreading rumors, mimic others behind their back and ruining their social reputation. Kids may not know that this is a type of bullying because they may see it at playing around but adults should be able to see the difference and talk the kids because they may not see that by spreading rumors or mimicking they are humiliating the other person in front of their peers.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power, which distinguishes bullying from conflict. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance, behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.

Though anyone is prone to falling victim, there are some commonalities between those who fall victims since the bullies tend to choose certain type of persons to abuse. Victims of bullying may be bullied due to their achievements, or do not have large circles of friends, or tend to be more serious on important things in life such as work or school. Generally, the victims have something special about them, which could either be that they wear differently, are shy, wear thick glasses, or are fat. And having no friends to stick up for them, the victims are continually abused by the bullies making them visibly frightened and even have their esteem lowered.