Can Bullying and School Violence be Prevented?

Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the coauthor of Preventing Bullying and School Violence (American Psychiatric Publishing).

In his article Can We Eliminate Bullying From Schools and Communities? Twemlow describes bullying is a social process, not a personal one.
 

Shaping the child’s behavior with social-skills training won’t effect change in the system until group dynamics, often unconscious, are discussed and resolved,” he said. “All schools need to take steps to mold a set of ideas or an approach to prevent bullying, adapt it to their cultural context, and get very high buy-in from staff and parents. Then a school can truly become a creative social, emotional, and intellectual learning environment.” read more

Source: PsychiatryOnline American Psychiatric Association

Preventing Bullying and School Violence
Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D., and Frank C. Sacco, Ph.D.
2012
337 pages
ISBN 978-1-58562-384-6
Paperback