Stop the bullying a handbook for schools - Rigby, Ken (ACER Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-63)
The purpose of the handbook -- Using the handbook -- Why bother? -- Understanding Bullying -- What is bullying? -- Gender, race, disability and social class -- Power inequities -- When forcefulness is not bullying -- The means of bullying -- Sexual harassment -- Bullying as a dynamic process -- The passive victim -- The resistant victim -- Bullying between staff and students -- Bullying between adults in the school community -- Why some people bully -- Why some people do not bully -- Action To Count Bullying -- Setting goals -- Making a plan -- Educating the school community -- Supportive training resources -- What it is useful to know about your school -- How to get the facts -- Finding out about bullying among young children -- Developing an anti-bullying policy -- What goes into the policy -- What teachers can do about bullying -- Talking with students in a class about bullying -- Telling -- Classroom activities that can help reduce bullying -- Working with students on rules and policies -- Focus on bystanders -- Roles for empowered students -- What students can do about bullying -- Bully/vicitim cases -- Assessing severity -- Alternative treatments -- Helping the victims -- Helping the bullies -- Working constructively with parents -- Types of schools -- Advice for parents -- A check list
Appendices: Sheets for Photocopying -- Defining bullying -- The means of bullying (examples) -- The bully/victim cycle: Bullying and the passive victim -- The bully/victim cycle: Bullying and the resistant victim -- What goes into the policy -- Alternative approaches to dealing with bullies -- Bystander exercise -- Warning signs that a child is being bullied at school -- Quiz about bullying for students (questions) -- Quiz about bullying for students (answer) -- Handling bullying: A staff questionnaire -- Twenty questions to ask yourself
What to do about bullying in schools is an ever-expanding field, requiring constant monitoring as new ideas appear and new resources become available. With the publication of this second edition of Stop the Bullying I have been able to take recent developmentsinto account in revising some of the contents of the earlier edition and adding further material of a practical nature. The issue of whether schools in Australia should take action against bullying is nowwell and truly over. The question has become: How can schools best deal with the problem?