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Amanda Nickerson, PhDAssociate Professor and Director
Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse PreventionUniversity at Buffalo
alberticenter@buffalo.edugse.buffalo.edu/alberticenter
Professional Staff Senate MeetingNovember 17, 2011
Alberti Center Slideshow
About the Alberti Center
Brief Overview of Bullying
Resources for Students
Our mission is to research, identify, and disseminate
resources to practitioners on the topics of bullying abuse
prevention and intervention.
Jean M. Alberti, Ph.D.
Benefactor
Amanda B. Nickerson, Ph.D.Director
Rebecca E. Ligman, M.S.Ed.Assistant to the Director
Michelle SerwackiGraduate Assistant
Heather CosgroveGraduate Assistant
Identification of high quality resources and links for website
Needs assessment• Resource availability and
utilization
Select presentations to educators, parents, and community organizations
Gender, empathy, group norms, and prosocial affiliations on bullying roles (middle school)
Bullying, anxiety, and self-care (middle school)
Group intervention for students at-risk for depression (middle and high school)
Evaluation of the PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum
Protective factors (focus on family) for bullying, victimization and sexual harassment
Assessment and ongoing monitoring of school climate and bullying/victimization (in conjunction with examination of strategies implemented)
Spring 2012 bullying prevention conference
Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Youth Depression: A Parent Perspective A presentation by John Halligan November 21, 2011 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Wesleyan Church of Hamburg www.frontier.wnyric.org/frontier/lib/frontier/Dignity_for_All.pdf
Parents: Learn More About Bullying & Prevention Skills to Help Your Children A UB Employee Assistance Program workshop led by Dr. Amanda Nickerson December 13, 2011 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 120 Clemens Hall, UB North Campus hr.buffalo.edu/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_use_op=view_page&PAGE_id=747
Intentional, usually repeated acts of verbal, physical, or written aggression by a peer (or group of peers) operating from a position of strength or power with the goal of hurting the victim physically or damaging status and/or social reputation
Olweus (1978); United States Department of Education (1998)
Physical bullying• punching, shoving, acts that hurt people
Verbal bullying• name calling, making offensive remarks
Indirect bullying• spreading rumors, excluding, ganging up
Cyber bullying• willful and repeated harm inflicted through the
use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices
Hinduja & Patchin (2009)
Teasing: Fun, good-natured, “give-and-take” between friends to get both parties to laugh
Bullying: Based on a power imbalance; intent to cause psychological or physical harm; usually repeated
Conflict: A struggle, dispute, or misunderstanding between two equal forces
STRUCTURE and SUPPORT• Clear, consistently enforced expectations
and policies for behavior, including prohibition of bullying and harassment, and effective classroom management – means of reporting
• Warmth, positive interest, adult involvement and supervision, and appreciation of differences
Brief assemblies or one-day awareness raising events
Zero-tolerance policies• May result in under-reporting bullying• Limited evidence in curbing bullying behavior
Peer mediation, peer-led conflict resolution• Many programs that use this approach actually
saw increase in victimization• Grouping students who bully together may
actually reinforce this behaviorDodge, Dishion, & Lansford, (2006); Farrington & Ttofi, (2009); Nansel et al., (2001)
Listen Empathize
• “That must have been very scary for you”
Thank student for telling Take is seriously Partner with student and
school to problem-solve Follow-up
Focus on behavior (not student as person) and why it is not OK
Apply logical, meaningful consequences
Increase supervision and monitoring
Work with student to develop plan for how to prevent this behavior in the future
Consider professional help to increase empathy, perspective taking, and problem-solving
Prohibits harassment of students with respect to race, weight, religion, sexual preference, etc.
Unlawful to not remedy harassment or bullying on school grounds
Includes:• Policies and guidelines• Curriculum changes in
civility, citizenship, and character education
• Training (for staff and point person)
• Record keeping
www.p12.nysed.gov/dignityact/Effective July 1, 2012
University Police – 716.645.2222(if there is an imminent threat)
Office of Judicial Affairs – 716.645.6154(if there is not an imminent threat)
Counseling Center – 716.645.2720(for counseling services)
Office of Equality, Diversity & Affirmative Action – 716.645.2266(for sexual harassment concerns)
Suicide Lifeline1.800.273.TALK
LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline1.866.4.U.TREVOR
Crisis Services Hotline716.834.3131
Crisis Chatwww.crisischat.org(online emotional support)