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Bullying: A School Mental Health Perspective

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This chapter focuses on the issue of bullying, which has grown as a significant concern among school personnel, students, and parents in the past few decades. The literature on school disciplinary procedures, social-emotional learning approaches, positive behavioral interventions and supports, and cognitive-behavioral treatment for aggressive behavior are reviewed and form the foundation for an individualized mental health assessment and treatment approach for working with students who bully others. This chapter provides a framework for bullying as a mental health issue and emphasizes the importance of schools, communities, and families working together in order to create a culture where bullying is not rewarded, supported, nor accepted. We describe the Target Bullying Intervention Program (T-BIP), which was designed to evaluate and address the mental health issues that may be underlying bullying behaviors.

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  1. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 40 Teachers College Hall, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0345, USA

    Susan M. Swearer Ph.D., Adam Collins M.A., Jenna Strawhun M.A. & Scott Fluke M.A.

  2. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, USA

    Cixin Wang Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Mark D. Weist

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Nancy A. Lever

  3. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Catherine P. Bradshaw

  4. Department of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

    Julie Sarno Owens

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Swearer, S.M., Wang, C., Collins, A., Strawhun, J., Fluke, S. (2014). Bullying: A School Mental Health Perspective. In: Weist, M., Lever, N., Bradshaw, C., Owens, J. (eds) Handbook of School Mental Health. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7624-5_25

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