CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Suicide Of Amanda Todd, School Bullying, Surgency

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: Ayda Tekok- Kilic

Document Summary

Adaptive and maladaptive bullying: a cost/benefit approach to intervention. Interventions: costs vs benefits, the 2 r"s. School bullying = failure to related in a civil manner to eachother. Using or abusing power repeated and systematic use and abuse of power. Bullying is a subset of aggression: repeated nature of it does most of the damage, systematic ritualistic. Amanda todd video language that she uses is powerful example of what could happen from bullying. Bullying is like an iceberg what we see is just the tip, most of it is under the surface. Usually start with direct, then realize the punishment aspect and turn to indirect because they think they can get in less trouble for it. Direct: what we see face to face, usually the victim and the victimizer are using the same space (hitting, swearing, name calling, punching, physical) Indirect: everything that happens behind peoples backs we don"t see it (cyber, gossiping, relational aggression, cyber bullying, exclusion.