...Denay Stockstill English 0900 20 Fall 2011 Child Abuse And Bulling All abuse is violent, whether it’s physical, emotional, verbal, or psychological. I feel child abuse turns into the child becoming a bully, and bullying to someone committing suicide. The abuser is usually an individual who has high anxiety and has not learned to deal with it like others. Most people would disagree or argue that child abusers can be AND are bullies. I think you are what you see. These kids grow up in abusive homes with no one to turn to for guidance. Tim Field, a prominent British anti-bullying activist, states, "Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity." He saying child abuse and bullying have the same consequences as someone getting beat to death. Being abused as a child can result in negative behavior in the future. You either turn into a bully or look at the negative and turn it to a positive. Look at your situation and help someone else from going through what you have. Field founded the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line and also wrote and published a book, Bully In Sight based on his own experiences. I think when a child is bullied they were a victim of a violent parent, a close family member, or a friend. Whatever the case may have been, research study done by Melissa Holt, showed that out of 700 fifth grade students 14% were bullies, 12% were victims, 8% bully-victims...
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...No Tolerance and No Bulling Policies: Why They Do Not Work "Zero Tolerance Policies" were first instated into schools, to enforce suspension and expulsion, in response to students; violating; weapons, drugs and violent act policies that were already in place. Shortly after, schools began to instate “No Bulling Policies” partly to a high suicide rate among teenagers due to bulling. The consequences for violating these policies can now go beyond expulsion, and have legal implications. In theory these policies are a great idea. Unfortunately, these policies are rarely implemented and carried out correctly, causing them to not just be ineffective; but causing them to have adverse effects. We have tried these policies in our schools , it has been proven that they have done more harm than good; it is now time to remove these policies from our schools. The “school to prison pipeline," is a recent national trend where children are pushed out of public schools, and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities, histories of poverty, and histories of abuse and neglect. There students would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. Many "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules. Cops in schools are criminalizing behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the...
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...project on to the victim, feelings of vulnerability. Power imbalance is an important factor for the bully, because they view their victims unable to defend themselves. (2011, Conflict with Character) Bullies seek weak, vulnerable victims, and the victims are left with feelings of helplessness. Bullying is often progressive, and victims are bullied through various methods, which include direct, verbal and indirect bullying. Direct bullying includes shoving, pushing, spitting, or hitting, and kicking. Remember, bulling is not a joke, or an accident, it is direct harassment done on purpose. Direct bullying is an aggressive method, taking advantage of age, size, and strength of their victim. More often than not bullies pick on the same victim over and over. While not limited to males, they often use the direct style of bulling. Verbal bullying abuses through words, and can be as aggressive as threatening, yelling, intimidating, and then often laughing at their victim. Verbal abuse comes in the form of criticizing the way the victim looks, dress,...
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...B.S.H.S. 325 | 11/28/2014 | | Hi everyone to day we will be talking about bulling. Some of you may say think and wonder what is bulling. Well when it comes to bulling it is defined as situations were one person or even a group of some individuals can at times use violent behavior to one another. When it comes to violence among children and young adults this can then be considered to be any type of physical or even psychological violent behavior that is at times aimed at the children and young adults”(Dracic 2009, P. 216). When it comes to bullying this can cause the victim to feel bad about them self’s and also can cause the victim to even have low self-esteem problems. Some of the victims of bulling may even stop talking to their family members because they just want to be left alone. If these victims are being bullied all the time this can even lead to them having issues such as lifelong psychological issues. Bulling is about someone having the power to abuse another person. When it comes to an individual who is getting bullied this individual can feel threatened and may also feel unsafe. Bullying has become an issue that has come to effect over a million of students today in schools. Now days not only are these students being bullied at school but they are also being bullied online. When students or individuals are always bullied and picked on this can lead to the person or child having thoughts about suicide or in some instances they can follow through with...
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...initiative promoting anti discriminatory practice Every Child Matters (2003) The national policy initiative that I’m going to assess is Every Child Matters (2003). The important point of this national initiative is extending in services to improve children’s life and help them with life problems. This policy focuses the needs for services, including schools and social workers and health professionals to work more closely to protect and support the need and rights of all children. Eight years old Victoria Climbie died from Hypothermia after months of abuse at the hands of her foster- carer and great aunt and her partner Carl John Manning. Victoria visited health and social care settings many times during her being abused and she was complete discharged whit no members of staff questioning her marks on her arms and legs and how she broke her leg. Also due to her race she had dark skin colour and therefor bruising was not as apparent. The poor 8 year old went through complete torture and abuse for many years of her life and the health and social care services failed her so many times. Following Victoria’s death, the Home Office and the Department of Health invited Lord Laming who is very well known to work with social services and child protection came to a deduction that there had been to many deaths of young children who have suffered abuse and been neglected by the health and social care services. The Act Every Child Matters Policy (2003) was formed through lord lammings...
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...In 1953, Bernard Carabello was placed at Willowbrook State School at the age of three, by his mother. His doctor misdiagnosed him as cognitively disabled or "mentally retarded". Carabello's doctor advised his mother to place him at Willowbrook. Willowbrook State School was a school for cognitively disabled in name only. It was described to be worse than a prison, a residence for human experimentation. Until the age of 18, Carabello was neglected, abused and treated worse than an animal. Carabello recalls the abuse, "I got beaten with sticks, belt buckles. I got my head kicked into the wall by staff … most of the kids sat in the day room naked, with no clothes on. There was a lot of sexual abuse going on from staff to residents". Also, many...
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...Delprøve A 1. Summary of When the Bully Is a Sibling When the Bully Is a Sibling is text by Anahad O’Connor from The New York Times, who writes about how fighting and bickering between siblings, as we will call normal sibling arguments, can cause psychological abuse. Researches proofs that fights between siblings damage as much as if you were been bulling in school or playground, and it should be taken much more seriously. The families don’t acknowledge the fights, punched and kicking between the siblings and the parents thinks that the children might find it out. People think that if you were been hurt by a child, it doesn’t damaged as much if you were been hurt by an adult, but it isn’t truth. 2. Give an outline of the positive and negative aspects of sibling rivalry as presented in texts 2 and 3 Outline of A nasty case of sibling rivalry and Sibling rivalry lead to success and popularity in later life. I will describe the positive and negative aspects of sibling rivalry between texts 2 and 3. In the article by Joanna Briscoe, A nasty case of sibling rivalry describes Joanna that sibling rivalry was daily for her and her brother. “To us, the conflict was a matter of life or death” (p. 4 l. 10-11) The fights was very dangerous. They were beating each other to the ground because of jealousy, and they were scared to be left. “Underneath all this is the fear of being rejected or abandoned by their parents (…)” (p. 5 l. 45-46) Karen Doherty says that “Four out of...
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...are everywhere ranging from educational, social, shopping, and gaming sites. Cellphones have evolved into smartphones and are no longer a luxury but a necessity because technology has become interlaced in our everyday lives. Technology causes schools technical hitches to keep up with the quick movement of change. One of the technical hitches that education leaders have to face is cell phone usage in classrooms. We want to believe that all students would act responsibly with cell phone usage in classrooms. In many cases, many students abuse policies. Cell phones in class should not be allowed because students can use them from cheating, disruptions, and cyber bullying. High school students may feel more tempted to cheat because they probably failed to study, have emotional/hormonal issues, or have involved themselves with the wrong crowds. High school is a very crucial time for humans because it is a transition in life from child hood to adult hood. These evolving students have parents at home that encourage strong education for future careers, demand respect, and analyze final grades. Students will cheat to have a finalized grade that will benefit them for future opportunities and to keep the harmony at home. Students can cheat very easily with smart phones by using the internet, taking photos, and texting. On a youtube video clip, How to cheat with a smartphone, films a girl taking a...
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...against bullying, it still happens. Whether at home, school, or work, bullying is an epidemic for children, adolescents, and adults. One of the unfortunate experiences that marks many childhoods is bullying. Bullying generally brings to mind children being taunted on the playground. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, “Close to half of all children will experience school bullying at some point while they are at primary or secondary school. At least 10 percent of children are bullied regularly.” Childhood bullying is a serious problem in schools everywhere, and it can be very harmful, long term to children. Bullying damages their own self-image in ways that can affect them for life. Children who are bullied can be stunted emotionally and socially, as well as see their schoolwork suffer. In some cases, serious depression and attempted suicide can result from childhood bullying. It’s been reported by Make Beats not Beat Downs, that 90% of 4th through 8th graders are victims of bullying. There are many types of bulling such as physical, verbal, and cyber bullying just to name a few. Many children today are subjected to physical abuse due to bullying. Children who are subjected to this type of...
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...Cyber bullying has come forth as a recent form of peer aggression in our society. As its name implies, cyber bullying occurs through the use of an electronic device with the purpose to harm others. Although research has already established a number of serious consequences of cyber-attacks, many questions remain unanswered concerning the impact of cyber bullying. Children are the most valuable asset in every town or community, regardless of religion, ethnicity or national origin. Given that technology is increasing rapidly, it seems important to assess the risks related to internet usage, and in particular the risks of becoming a victim of online grooming and cyber bulling .Todays kids and teenagers are living in a environment that is radically different to the time of their parents, also virtual environments have become more popular in both the habitat of our homes and also within the walls of our school districts. In today’s generation,social networking sites have become a trend and the amount of users altogher has escalated extremely high since the last couple of years, everyone seems to have one may it be Facebook, Twitter or any other site. It is highly uncommon to find someone without it. Children are forging their ages to get on to sites like these which can leave them open to cyber bullying and emotional distress. As a result of social networking less children socialize with each other face to face. Furthermore children have a lack of confidence when speaking to...
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...and Schulz, C. (2016). Chronotherapeutic treatments for depression in youth. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 25, 151-161. DOI 10.1007/s00787-015- 0720-6 Bogenschutz, M., Lysne, A. P., Monnig, A. M., Pommy, A. J., Ruhl, A. D., Thoma, j. R. And Yeo, A. R. (2011).Adolescent Substance Abuse: The Effects of Alcohol and Marijuana on Neuropsychological Performance. Alcoholism Clinical & Experimental Research, (35)1 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2010.01320.x. p39-46 google scholore at...
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...getting married would be a threat to the society’s values and weaken what marriage is defined as. Many years ago, African Americans, for example, did not have the same equality like white people did I think gay marriage has a similar issue. We are all humans and we all should have the same equality and right no matter if we are gay, straight,white,black,Latin, Asian or any other race,Therfore gay marriage should be legal. Many young children in America are killing themselves for being victim of abuse,bulling or discrimination in school from other kids that believe that being gay is wrong . Bullying is an intentional aggressive behavior that is often applied to people that have or express a different behavior or preferences that are not consider “normal” or average behavior than most of the people. They may be bullied for different reasons, by the way they dress, how they speak, or even because of the race they are.There are many types of bulling physical bullying (punching or hitting). Verbal bullying is a very common bullying, examples of verbal are name calling or mockery . Cyber bullying is where insulting or negative messages are sent via e-mail or text messages, and emotional or social bullying is experienced by exclusion, an example of this is when people from a specific group do not let you be in the same group as them. Gay bullying is often seen in schools of the United States, and all around the world....
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...need to provide programs and interventions for the adolescents who are experiencing such bullying whether it at school or in a social environment. A useful way to prevent or lessen bullying is to have school administrator’s assurance and commitment to reduce the problem of bullying in our school and environment. Providing programs of intervention are know to help reduce bullying in schools. Bullying can lead to many physical injury, social problems and emotional problems also can lead to death. Children and adolescents who are bullied are at risk of having mental problems, such as depression, anxiety, suicidal thought and problems adjusting to school. Adolescents and children who are victims of this type of crime are at risk for substance abuse, academic problems, and violence to other later on in life. Counselors who work with children and adolescents are aggressive through...
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...issue that many children have dealt with in some aspect or another. Whether the child being the bully or being on the receiving end of being bullied by someone else, bullying “is an epidemic that causes 160,000 children a day to stay home from school because they are afraid of being bullied, according to the US Department of Education” (Dubreuil & McNiff, 2010). This epidemic is affecting the lives of numerous children all through out the United States. Bullying has recently become a more popular topic due to national media coverage of the tragic deaths of a few teens recently that have taken their lives due to being bullied. “The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center estimates that nearly 30 percent of American youth are either a bully or a target of bullying.” (Donaldson James, 2009) We must first examine why studying bullying is such an important aspect of the study in human development. Bullying in the teenage years can be very detrimental to the individual both psychologically and physically. Bullying can be something as simple as name calling to inappropriate sexual comments, threating to cause harm, physical violence such as pushing, shoving, hitting, spitting on and even kicking. Many teens that have been bullied have been known to shut down and become withdrawn from society. While some teens withdraw themselves from society some use other methods to cope with the abuse with the use of alcohol, food, pills, and illegal drugs in order to numb themselves...
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...Summary The main objective of the paper was to highlight bullied youths and their behaviour and how they retaliate in a manner that no one would have expected. Their behaviour would come as a surprise to many because the end result would be murdering their perpetrators and also killing innocent people in their line of revenge. It also explained the different avenues why young people who are victims to bullying take matters into their own hands because many people such as school authorities and friends turn a blind eye to how they are treated. The writer also spoke about the initial stages of bullying to the extension where it becomes a bigger problem for the child who is a victim of such abuse. A few theories were highlighted in the paper which tries to explain or clarified some reasons why some children would resort to bullying others. The Strain Theory spoke about the victim who is the bullied would retaliate because of the strain condition that he or she is under. The Pecking Theory is where they relate the behaviour of animals on how dominance is displayed by over another in the animal kingdom. The Scapegoat Theory explains the act of minority groups and the so called depression that exerts from their behaviour It also brought to the forefront besides the theories mention that some of the children who are victim of such behaviour of bullying would not talk about it because of the consequences that they feared of being further victimized, if the bully...
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