Stop the bullying book cover

Contents

Introduction

1. The purpose of the handbook
2. Using the handbook
3. Why bother?

Understanding bullying

4. What is bullying ?
5.Gender, race, disability and social class
6. Power inequalities
7. When forcefulness is not bullying
8. The means of bullying
9. Sexual harassment
10. Bullying as a dynamic process
11. The passive victim
12.The resistant victim
13. Bullying between staff and students
14. Bullying between adults in the school community
15. Why some people bully
16. Why some do not bully

Action to counter bullying

17. Setting goals
18. Making a plan
19. Educating the school community social class
20. Supportive training resources
21. What it is useful to know about your school
22. How to get the facts
23. Finding out about bullying among young children
24. Developing an Anti-Bullying Policy
25. What goes into the policy
26. What teachers can do about bullying
27. Talking with students in class about bullying
28. Telling
29. Classroom activities that can help to reduce bullying
30. Working with students on rules and policies
31. Focus on bystanders
32.Roles for empowered students
33. What students can do about bullying
34. Bully/victim cases
35. Assessing severity
36. Alternative treatments
37. Helping victims
38. Helping the bullies
39. Working constructively with parents
40. Types of schools
41. Advice for parents
42. A check list

Notes and References are provided in twelve end pages giving research background and additional information in relation to each of the topic areas. Also the book contains seventeen sheets for photocopying, which provide illustrative material and exercises that are useful for staff meetings and work with students in classrooms.