Bullying is on the increase. According to a new survey, fifty-two per cent of children and young people say that bullying is a big problem in their school. Each week at least 450,000 young people are bullied at school, a further 500,000 are bullied outside of school in the community. Meanwhile, bullying at work is a much greater problem than people once realised. As many as one in 10 people were bullied at work over the past six months. This book examines the many forms that bullying can take and ways of tackling bullying.
The information comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and surveys and literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Bullying and Young People
Bullying, Are you being bullied by other pupils in school?, Homophobic bullying, What is racist bullying?, Beat bullying, Don't blame the bullies!, Bullying in schools, Understanding the bully, Rise of the brat-bully, Are you bullying someone?, Important facts and figures, Back to bullying?, Helping friends beat bullying, Girls and bullying, Victims of bullying rarely ask for help, Bullying 'affects almost every child in Britain', Anger management skills.
Chapter Two: Cyberbullying
What is online bullying?, Playground bullies move into cyberspace, Cyberbullying, Putting "U" in the picture, stoptextbully top ten tips, Mobile phone bullying, Concern over rise of "happy slapping" craze.
Chapter Three: Workplace Bullying
Bullying at work, How to deal with bullying at work, Workplace bullying, If you're being bullied, National workplace bullying survey, Are you a bully?, Bullying: a big problem for small businesses?, The bully at work: Jan's story, Mental toughness helps resist bullying, Fear and loathing in the workplace.
Key Facts
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
• 52 per cent of children and young people say that bullying is a big problem in their school, according to a new survey for the Anti-Bullying Alliance ? and the same number think that schools are not doing enough to tackle the issue. (page 7)
• Each week at least 450,000 young children are bullied at school. (page 11)
• More than one in five severely bullied children will attempt to take their own life. (page 11)
• A survey reveals that while two out of three girls admit abusing others, more than 90 per cent say they have been bullied themselves. (page 14)
• One in 10 youngsters (11%) admitted they had sent a bullying/threatening message to someone else. (page 23)
• Nearly three-quarters of teachers (74.4%) throughout the UK are worried that their pupils could become victims of mobile phone bullying. (page 25)
• According to the National Workplace Bullying Survey, most respondents (44.2%) were unaware of how their organisation dealt with bullying. (page 30)
Bullying Study Guide
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.50
ISBN: 978 1 86168 380 9
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