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This guide will provide you with information about aggression and its development during childhood and adolescence. It introduces bullying as a subset of aggressive behavior, highlights research on the nature and extent of bullying in schools and outlines some of the characteristics of children involved in bullying. It has many helpfully suggestions to recognize common signs of bullying that parents and practitioners need to be aware of and offers interventions and resources for those dealing with this behavior.

What is the root cause of aggressive behavior, and why is it so widespread today?  Understand why some people adopt belligerent attitudes that lead them to inappropriate confrontations.   This DVD is great for a classroom discussion on aggressive behavior and bullying.

Runtime: 18 mins

In this book, the prehistoric bully is much like the one we see today, only bigger and with scales.  Maybe, by observing these ancient creatures and how they identify, cope with and prevent bullying, we can learn to deal with bullies we encounter in our modern society.  Dinos are picked on for all sorts of reasons.  His neck is too long, she is too big, look at that funny-shaped horn, we don't want to play with a spotted dinosaur. Watch how our dinosaurs find ways to handle the bully or bullies and how the bullies take a second look at themselves. This book is geared towards children ages 4 to 8.

Pages:  20

This is a great new game designed to increase a child's knowledge of bullying.  Each incident card has been weighted based on the severity of the bullying so that children can see how harmful this behavior is.  Now, after a bullying situation, teachers can invite those involved to play the game together in an effort to understand what it's like to be bullied and how to prevent future incidences of bullying.  Children are encouraged to model good behavior on how to overcome bullying.  The game contains one game board, 54 playing cards, 6 pawns, and a die.

This instructional DVD provides a balanced look at the problem of bullying from all perspectives, and then provides a useful advice that covers the broad spectrum of solutions available to a child on a case by case basis.  Bully 911 is an easy to learn, step-by-step video that addresses a variety of issues, concerns and threats.  Levels of protection taught range from mild, moderate to more forceful.  This gives you a chance to work with and speak with your child on the heartbreaking topic of bullying and helps you learn how to handle a bully together!  Don't let your child be victimized by the mental and physical harm from bullying and its effects that can last well beyond their childhood years!  What have you got to lose except...your child's fears and worries.

Runtime:  26 mins

Bobby Kent was a steroid-pumped, 20-year-old bully who liked to dominate his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. One summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs, but was never seen alive again.  The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless, cold-blooded efficiency by seven of his high school acquaintances, including his lifelong best friend, and instigated by one overweight, under-loved teenager who believed her life would be perfect if Bobby Kent was dead.  This book is a riveting story of adolescent rage and bloody revenge, and all the more harrowing and horrific because it's true.

Pages:  304

Based on The Bully Free Classroom by Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., this card game plays like Crazy Eights, so most kids will have some familiarity with the process.  The cards are divided into four categories: "What Would You Do If", Self-Esteem Boosters, Ways to Stay Bully Free, and "Why Should You Do This?"  Kids get rid of cards (and move closer to being "out" or "bully free") by offering reasonable suggestions and responses to questions.  Meant to be played with adult supervision (a teacher, counselor, or youth worker familiar with anti-bullying themes), the game includes an insert with rules and basic anti-bullying concepts.

Pack:  60 Cards and 12 Page Fold-out Insert

"Bully Coach" Joel Haber, Ph.D., is one of the leading experts in the prevention of bullying.  A pioneer in the field, he has worked with thousands of kids, parents, teachers, counselors, and others to understand the root causes of the bullying.  He covers identifying bully types to exposing the reasons why kids become bullies, targets, or bystanders, and helps stamp it out once and for all. By delivering a practical, supportive, and step-by-step "bullyproofing prescription" that yields lasting results for both boys and girls, from grade school through high school, Bullyproof Your Child for Life gives specific action steps to help any child build resilience and confidence, develop compassion and trust, and thrive in school, camp, sports, and beyond.

Pages:  304

Every day, in schools Bullying doesn't stop at the grade school playground.  Middle school students can be targets and perpetrators of verbal, emotional, and physical bullying as well.  This important new video explores unique bullying issues that middle school (grades 6 to 8) students experience-as told in their own words.  Real kids (not actors) discuss real-life issues and situations, including: What is bullying?  Why do kids bully?  What if it happens to you?
Included with this DVD is a teacher's guide that contains information designed to assist you with introducing, following-up and reinforcing the material presented.

Runtime: 11 mins

Bullying at School is the authoritative book on bullying/victim problems in school and on effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems.  On the basis of the author's large-scale studies and other research, it is known that bullying is a problem in all societies.  More than 15 percent of the school population in primary and secondary or junior high schools are involved, either as bullies victims.  This book presents the facts about Bullying and its causes and consequences in a concise manner with straightforward language.

Pages:  152

Every day, in schools and in other institutions, aggressive, harassing acts are carried out with frightening regularity.  The oppression and intimidation caused by bullies can make it almost impossible to concentrate upon an education or a career.  Cycles of violence can be broken by confronting and eradicating environments in which bullies thrive.  By using education, empowerment, commitment, and unity, socially maladjusted individuals can be convinced to stop their abuse.

Runtime: 26 mins

This book contains a School-Wide approach to girl bullying. Counteracting girl bullying first requires an understanding of what it is and to become aware of how it can negatively impact the lives of young girls.  Bullying in The Girl's World provides information to motivate change and the skills and strategies to make it happen.

Pages:  214

As long as there have been schools, there have been bullies that tease, threaten and physically harm their peers.  We know today that bullying has serious consequences for both the victims and the bullies, ranging from low self-esteem to suicide.  Bullying: What Every Adult Needs to Know gives adults the tools and knowledge they need to prevent and stop bullying among young people.  This DVD, featuring professionals and young people, educates parents, teachers, and anyone who works with young people about what bullying is and what they can do to help deal with bullying in a healthy way.

This book is aimed at academics, educators, and government policy makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of various technologies, including but not limited to cell phone and the Internet. There is a current lack of policy relating to the extent of educators' legal responsibilities to intervene when such events takes place outside of school hours and school grounds, using home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often the targets of these events. The author analyzes government and school responses by reviewing positive paradigms. She reviews a range of legal frameworks and judicial decisions from constitutional, human rights, child protection, tort law perspectives, and redirects attention to legally substantive and pluralistic approaches that can help schools balance student free expression, supervision, safety, and learning.

Pages:  296

Cyber bullying has become more prevalent through the use of e-mail, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems, and brings many unique challenges.  This book provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.

Pages:  228

Cyber Bullying is defined as the willful and repeated act of harming others electronically (through email, instant messaging, Web sites, chat rooms, social networking sites, cell phones and other electronic means).  It is a relatively new issue, but has clear consequences that need to be addressed.  This is why Hazelden has published Cyber Bullying: A Prevention Curriculum for Grades 6-12.  The consequences of cyber bullying are far-reaching, causing some victims to experience low self-esteem, poor academic achievement, difficulty making friends, loneliness, depression, and suicidal thoughts and tendencies.  Some reports of suicide following incidents of cyber bullying have been in the news.  Around one-third of all teens using the internet have been bullied, and have found that bullying in any form is tied to a host of other behavior problems, including substance abuse.  Education and prevention are keys to halting cyber bullying.  The Hazelden cyber bullying curriculum is authored by nationally renowned experts in the field of bullying prevention.

Pages:  146

This book provides 101 1/2 resources, strategies, insights, and reproducible worksheets for professionals who work with girls that are Relationally Aggressive (RA), and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying.  The strategies in this book were created to increase awareness of Relational Aggression (RA), encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills.  The underlying causes of RA are explored, particularly in girls.  Other forms of RA are explored including cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. Included are reproducible lessons and activities for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools.

Pages:  128

Are you still living with Mean?  Take a closer look inside your heart and soul in this spiritually challenging and uplifting sequel to Mean Girls.  In this companion volume, popular author Hayley DiMarco urges girls to take a closer look at what God has to say about the Mean Girls they encounter every day, including the one in the mirror.  It's crammed with biblical insight, guided questions, and prayer tips, Mean Girls Gone leads girls through one of the toughest challenges in their teen lives and shows them that the strength to overcome is not found in some act of revenge but in the God's Word.

Pages:  148

These days, children are more worried and fearful than those of previous generations.  Consequently, well-intended parents are raising some of the culture's wimpiest kids.  Overprotective mothers and fathers are teaching their kids to live passively, and their kids are becoming much less able to make decisions, strengthen their minds, and to cultivate courage.  This insightful and practical book, No More Jellyfish, Chickens, or Wimps, will help break the cycle of raising nice, but weak kids.  Take the challenge and become a courageous parent whose children know how to be confident and assertive, be neither a victim or a bully, and respond to injustice and defend others.

In this educational DVD, you'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on bullying and harassment on campus and some of the motivations behind a bully's behavior.  Using interviews with teens that bully and teens that have been bullied, this program provides a broad understanding of why bullies do what they do.  The best way to handle them and who can be of help in a harassing situation.  The program discusses the damage to self-esteem when a student becomes the constant victim of bullying and the ways to avoid conflict and violence on campus.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  Teens tell us their fears and solutions in this "must watch" program.

In this educational DVD, You'll hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on Cyber-Bullying.  Cyber-bullying is any form of harassment that occurs via the internet.  Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites and mean or cruel email messages are all considered types of bullying.  While Cyber-Bullying mainly takes place on line, other high tech methods like threatening text messages and taunting voicemails also fall under this category.  In some States, Cyber-bullying is a crime that can even lead to death.  This DVD is geared towards teens grades 8-12.  This program has recommended companion title: Bullies and Harassment.

Runtime:  18 mins

This booklet provides information on one of the most common and underrated problems of childhood--bullying.  A study has shown that 15 to 20% of children are involved in bullying once or twice during a school year either as the bullying person or as the victim.  The booklet reviews recent research on bullying, discussing who bullies and why, whom they target and why, and outlines the immediate and long-term effects of bullying on perpetrators, victims, the audience, and society.  Some low-cost and no-cost action steps are suggested to help caring communities, schools, parents, and even other students or siblings reduce bullying behaviors and build a caring culture.  Examples of programs successful in other countries are provide.   Age appropriate reproducible information and action steps are included for distribution to youth and concerned adults.

Highly supportive of the continuing anti-bullying work in many schools, Michele is adamant that where bullying is concerned, teachers can make all the difference.

This pocketbook is filled with practical ideas for tackling bullying in schools, and all have been tried and tested.  These aren't just strategies for teachers and parents when dealing with bullies and their victims, there are also defending, deflecting and defusing strategies for those who suffer at the hands of bullies.  Included are awareness-raising ideas for all pupils and inset activities for teachers looking to create a bully-free school.  It's an educational, revitalizing book that leaves you utterly convinced that the bullies can indeed be 'zapped'.

This book explores the dynamics in relationships among children of preschool through early school age, and encourages kids to understand personal and social problems as a first step toward solving them.  Written by an experienced psychotherapist and counselor, this book promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers.   The language in each book is simple and direct, making it easy for younger children to understand, and there are full-color illustrations on every page.  This approachable picture book explores the difficult issue of bullying among children.  It helps kids accept the normal fears and worries that accompany bullying, and suggests ways to resolve this hurtful experience.

In the United States, over 165,000 bullied children purposely miss school every day because they're afraid to go.  Childhood bullying has been a major factor in both youth suicides and school shootings.  "Storm" is an unnerving and stark reality drama of a boy whose ego and self-worth are reduced to the point where he takes his own life in order to, "make it all go away".  Thomas Brown, anti-bullying advocate and film director reflects on his own bullying experience in the classroom presentation of Taking Ninth Graders by STORM.  Here, Tom poses questions and invites debate on matters affecting the film's characters.  Students watching this segment are able to reflect on other students' attitudes toward bullying, providing them an opportunity to weigh their thoughts against those of their peers.

People get hurt by words every day. Across the nation, someone is being subjected to mocking, name-calling or having rumors spread about them all over school.  Some victims of emotional harassment never fully recover from it, and the consequences can be devastating, yet the perpetrators go unpunished.  In this video, you'll find out what constitutes emotional harassment and what you can do to stop this social phenomenon.

Runtime: 24 mins

This book contains practical solutions to a problem that may affect 80% of school children.  Using her decades of experience working with troubled youth and her knowledge of conflict resolution and reconciliatory justice, bestselling parenting educator Barbara Coloroso offers a practical and compassionate book certain to become a groundbreaking guide to this escalating problem.  Coloroso helps readers recognize the characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who perpetrates the harm; the bullied who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the bystander - peers, siblings, or adults who don't act to defuse the situation.

This clear, concise, and well-written, practical guide describes bullying and its impact.  Most importantly, it offers a sensible how-to approach for improving children's self-image so that they are well-behaved when they go to schools, playgrounds, and day care.  In addition, parents learn how to examine themselves in order to better model healthy, assertive, non-aggressive behavior.

Bullying hurts, and scares many people. It also causes anxiety, and disrupts lives. This comprehensive program will provide solid advice for understanding and dealing with bullies, and viewers will learn the causes and effects of bullying. Why do they do it, and what do they stand to gain? Most importantly, viewers learn the things they can do if they are the victim of a bully. They will learn it's NOT their fault; where they can go for help; and what specific steps they can take to stop the abuse. This video includes interviews, teen bullies, and experts on bullying.

This short, but powerful book has forever changed the lives of thousands of educators, parents and victims of chronic bullying.  It is issued to school systems by the Departments of Education in Alabama, North Carolina and Indiana as well as the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.  This book has created nothing short of a movement in the battle against bullying in our schools.  Updated with more than 50 pages of new material to help combat bullying, Weakfish has become a tremendously popular book.

This workbook teaches children, both bullies and victims, how to respect themselves. It focuses on children ages eight to fourteen, and contains example conversation and exercises that will introduce them to a wide variety of hostile situations and show them how to resolve these situations in a non-violent manner. It also contains messages to teachers on how to use the variety of lessons together to provide the most value in their teachings. The author is a former school teacher and administrator, martial arts sixth-degree black belt, and the parent of five daughters.