Full Description
Bullying, Impact on Health, and Beyond is a systematic review of at least 2,000 published studies on bullying and other forms of victimization. The goal of the book is to promote an understanding of the wide range of health risks associated with bullying, a multifaceted form of psychosocial stressor that can be prevalent along the lifespan, crossing social, cultural, and geographic boundaries. This text intends to highlight bullying as a form of victimization, while advancing the notion of a spectrum of maltreatment.
Through its 20 chapters, the book provides documented academic evidence about what is known, so far, about the concept and nature of bullying and other forms of victimization; their global prevalence; association with morbidity, psychosocial risks and mortality and clinical strategies for their prevention, detection, intervention and treatment. Furthermore, this text emphasizes the notion and significance of poly-victimization and revictimization, while focusing on the occurrence of bullying and other forms of maltreatment in schools; the home milieu and neighborhood; workplace; cyberspace; sports; dating relationships; tertiary education; military training; and witnessing others being victimized. The author's decades of clinical and advocacy efforts to prevent, detect and treat the deleterious effects of bullying and other forms of victimization are reflected through all chapters with recommendations for future research, clinical and public policy strategies to target this problem.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Concept of Bullying
Chapter 2. The Prevalence of Bullying
Chapter 3. Poly-Victimization
Chapter 4. Morbidity Associated with Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Chapter 5. Social Problems and Risks Behaviors Linked to Bullying and Other Victimizations
Chapter 6. Mortality Linked to Bullying and Other Forms of Victimizations
Chapter 7. Prevention of Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Chapter 8. Detection of Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Chapter 9. Intervention and Treatment of Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Chapter 10. National Initiatives for the Prevention of Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Chapter 11. School Bullying
Chapter 12. Workplace Bullying
Chapter 13. Victimization at Home
Chapter 14. Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization in Cyberspace
Chapter 15. Maltreatment in the Neighborhood
Chapter 16. Victimization in Dating Relationships
Chapter 17. Victimization in Competitive Sports
Chapter 18. Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization in Tertiary Education
Chapter 19. Bullying and Other Forms of Maltreatment in Prisons
Chapter 20. Witnessing Bullying and Other Forms of Victimization
Epilogue
