Dating and Violence Prevention (2005)
Adolescents need to understand that breaking up in dating relationships is a normal, transitional stage. Breaking up should not include violence and does not need to result in feelings of failure or rejection. This one-hour lesson helps high school students identify what they expect in dating relationships and positive ways to end a dating relationship. . . .
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Bearing Witness to Bullying (2009)
The World Health Organization reports that 40%, 38%, and 36% of 13-year-olds from 35 countries had respectively fought, bullied others, and been bullied by others at school in the preceding months. Canadian and American rates of bullying (47%) and victimization (40%) are almost the same; higher than those of Northern Europe. . . .
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Adolescent Peer and Dating Violence
This study investigated associations across different types of violence among secondary students living in a high-risk community (e.g., high poverty and unemployment rates, high rate of serious crime). . . .
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Violence Reduction Programs (2008)
In addition to violence that occurs on school grounds or in school-supported activities, school violence includes all intentional behaviors that harm, intends to harm or threatens to harm, whether they be verbal, physical, or psychological (intimidation). In this review, two different approaches to the reduction of school violence are described and critiqued. . . .
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Youths' Views on Bullying
Bullying is commonly discussed among school officials, and organized programs are created to intervene, but little is known about children's views about bullying. A nationally representative group of students were surveyed about their experience with or witnessing bullying and their opinions about the seriousness, causes, and ways to prevent bullying. . . .
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