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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814086003321

Autore

Masiello Matthew G.

Titolo

A public health approach to bullying prevention / / Matthew G. Masiello, Diana Schroeder ; cover Design, Alan Giarcanella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : American Public Health Association, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-87553-268-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Disciplina

371.7

371.782

Soggetti

Bullying in schools - Prevention

Bullying - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Public health and bullying prevention / Matt Masiello -- Effective bullying prevention efforts and school climate reform / Jonathon Cohen -- Why should we care about bullying? : the social and mental health consequences of bullying / Gianluca Gini -- Practical implications of bullying for the school administrator / James A. Bozigar -- The health consequences of bullying / Diana Schroeder -- Creating healthy school climates for lgbt students / Robert A. McGarry -- Best practices in the prevention of bullying : an example of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program / Susan P. Limbe -- Readiness and bullying prevention / Stacie Molnar-Main and Heather Cecil -- Developing organizational and educational capacity for ongoing implementation / Shiryl Barto -- Foundations of coalition building to reduce bullying : a Pennsylvania case example / Janice Seigle -- Parents, friends, and bullying prevention / James A Bozigar -- Community engagement in bullying prevention / Karla Good -- Identifying impact¿monitoring and evaluation a bullying prevention program / Allison Messina -- Economic evaluation of bullying prevention implementation / Carla Zema -- Call to action for schools and legislators / David Keller Trevaskis -- Program sustainability / Charvonne N. Holliday.



Sommario/riassunto

A Public Health Approach to Bullying Prevention will serve as a practical, sustainable, cost-efficient strategy to tackle bullying. More importantly, it may be the best approach to providing legitimate and sustainable hope to our children at a time when bullying is becoming increasingly more difficult to tackle.This book presents a public health approach to bullying prevention in a comprehensive and deliberate manner. Formal public health strategies have been used to combat infectious disease epidemics, tobacco use, and motor vehicle injuries. When applied to bullying, public health strategies