...Bullying and School Violence School Violence is not something new to us; we hear about it more and more these days where there are shootings in schools, or kids being bullied and the parents are seeking help. The number of children who are becoming victims to this violence is growing. According to the National Center for Education Statistics “During the 2009–10 school year, 85 percent of public schools recorded that one or more of these incidents of violence, theft, or other crimes had taken place, amounting to an estimated 1.9 million crimes. This figure translates to a rate of approximately 40 crimes per 1,000 students enrolled in 2009–10. During the same year, 60 percent of schools reported one of the specified crimes to the police, amounting to about 689,000 crimes—or 15 crimes per 1,000 student’s enrolled.” http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=49. That is a lot of school related crimes and those are just the ones that are being reported. What do I consider a violent act? When I think of violence I tend to only think of the actions that produce physical harm to a person. But the definition of violence” is an extreme form of aggression, such as assault, rape or murder. Violence has many causes which include frustration, exposure to violent media, violence in the home or neighborhood and a tendency to see other people’s actions as hostile even when they’re not.” American Psychological Association; Violence; http://www.apa.org/topics/violence/index.aspx. When I...
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...Bullying and horizontal violence are commonly used towards new grads in hospitals. Bullying is very serious and it can affect not only new grads but also patients and their care. According to the research not all new nursing students receive support in their workplace. Transition programs in hospitals help new nurses get help and support from current workers and become more confident at workplace. The study has shown that transition programs help new grads to progress form beginner level to more advance in three to four month. Support is very important key for new grads especially in the first couple month in a new workplace. Authors describe the positive effect of supports provided by managers, head nurses toward new employees by performing...
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...Human Resources must ensure that the workplace is free of harassment and bullying. Employees should feel comfortable and safe in their place of employment. Creating a productive working environment is beneficial to both the employee and the organization. Failing to take action in regards to workplace harassment and bullying leaves the organization liable for legal repercussions. Workplace harassment and bullying can often deter workers from committing violent acts against other employees and coworkers. Initiatives like Work-life balance can help to prevent workplace violence and harassment. Human Resources must do all that it can to ensure employees’ safety and to make the worker feel valued and supported at work and that federal guidelines are being followed. The Mariam-Webster dictionary defines harassment as creating an unpleasant or hostile situation for especially uninvited and unwelcomed verbal or physical conduct. It is the responsibility of the organization to immediately act on all claims of harassment. HR must be able to identify harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and violations of both federal and the organization’s policy. Harassment at work does not have to only be of a sexual nature. Workplace bullies can be employees, such as a bad boss or coworker, and sometimes a non-employee such as a client. Bullying at work is an increasing problem. Like childhood bullying workplace bullying is the tendency of individuals or groups to use persistent aggressive or...
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...26–35 Nurse Education in Practice www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/nepr Exploring bullying: Implications for nurse educators Sharon L. Edwards a a,* , Claire Frances O’Connell b Department of Pre-registration, Nursing Faculty of Health Studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont Campus, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AD, United Kingdom b Green Lawns, Kilmona Grenagh Co., Cork, Republic of Ireland Accepted 27 March 2006 KEYWORDS Bullying; Violence; NHS; Higher education; Nurse education Summary This article examines briefly the issue of workplace violence and bullying in the hospital environment, but more importantly how the same and different styles of bullying and intra-staff bullying are emerging in nurse education. The content describes the aetiology of violence and bullying and their place in the National Health Service (NHS) including nursing. It explores bullying as the principle form of intimidation in nurse education, the different types and subtle forms of bullying, why individuals become bullies, dealing with and the consequences of bullying. The legislation, guidelines, policies are part of the recommendations for practice. c 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction In modern day society, it could be argued that violence and aggression is a common aspect of daily life. Violence and abuse within the hospital setting occurs throughout the entire health care sector...
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...BULLYING PROBLEM IN A NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL: AN EDUCATIONAL MANGER’S SOLUTION Abstract Bullying problem is pervasive and a serious concern for all stakeholders of education who desire to make school climate a safe haven. This paper is thus moved by this desire, to identify bullying and prevalence of bullying among secondary school students in Nigeria as a matter of urgent attention. The paper brings into concrete terms, bullying situation in Hibiscus College (pseudonym) a secondary school in Nigeria and prescribes a series of decision making process for solving the problem. These include, provision of helping services for schools; sensitization and capacity building of stakeholders in bullying detection and prevention; implementation of bully buster programme; and improvement of students’ level of compassion and empathy through empathy training. Introduction A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students enrolled in it. The main purpose of the school is to develop the student through knowledge acquisition, so that he/she may become a social being. By this, the student is expected to learn how to relate with fellow students, teachers and others in the school on the one hand, and to live in a harmonious way (by blending with societal values) in the society on the other hand. The school is also expected to be a place where students should feel safe and secure, and where they can count on being treated with respect. The reality, however, is that...
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...School Violence Victoria Griffin Fayetteville State University The Importance to Be Aware Of School Violence in Education Today By Victoria Griffin December 1, 2014 Abstract: The importance of knowing about school violence, the cause of school violence, forms of school violence and they ways teacher can prevent school violence was observed. A recent act of school violence is announced and the content of why it is important for teachers to be aware of school violence. School violence is a very serious issue to address many young adolescents are become victims of school violence which results in lower educational opportunities for some student’s. In this paper I have research statistics amongst school violence and the importance to know the effects it may have own students Are you going to the party on Friday?, I’m sure that was the hot topic in the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School on October 24, 2014, that quickly changed when “15 year old freshman student Jaylen Fryberg shot five other students at Marysville Pilchuck High School, fatally wounding four, before fatally shooting himself.” (www.kval.com) The one surviving victim and all of the students who witness this horrible act of school violence can never erase those images in their heads for the rest of their lives. There are many forms of school violence some that are not has fatal has Marysville-Pilchuck High School but one form of school violence that is on the rise is bullying. Bullying can be...
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...Child Bullying and Workplace Violence Kyle Gerner Dr. Kenneth Lynch Business Law I 4 May 2013 Child Bullying and Workplace Violence Child bullying is one of the greatest challenges the younger generation faces today, in my opinion, while work place violence is problems faced by adults. To me it would seem the mitigating factor of bullying is associated with the divorce rate that is in America, while it seems for workplace violence there is no one real cause. We will cover a wide variety of topics today, but a special emphasis will be placed on bullying as it is something that deeply saddens me and is likely to deeply sadden you after I share my thoughts and essentially ethics regarding this matter. Three of the reasons children may be preyed upon are poor social skills, they may have no or few friends, and being non-confrontational, (McIntire, Franks, n.d.). “Tracing the ferment of workplace violence back to its root causes involves looking into the role of individual behavior, the interaction of a set of risk factors and the situations presenting the greatest risk, (Causes of Workplace Violence, n.d.). Children with Poor Social Skills When kids have poor social they are generally isolated and choose to keep to themselves, thus allowing bullies to pick on them. Seeing as how they are pointed out among most of the children in schools, it is no wonder they are chosen by bullies. I can remember countless times growing up in school that the children who were always...
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...The African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network MANAGING BULLYING PROBLEMS IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: SOME COUNSELLING INTERVENTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION Oyaziwo Aluede Ambrose Alli University Abstract Bullying problem has remained pervasive and a going concern for all stakeholders of education who desire to make school climate a safe haven. This paper is moved by this desire, by bringing into context the meaning of bullying and prevalence of bullying around the globe. The paper further brings into perspective bullying situation in Nigeria and prescribes intervention for bullying prevention in schools. These include; provision of helping services for schools; sensitization and capacity building of stakeholders in bullying detection and prevention; implementation of bully buster programme; and improvement of students’ level of compassion and empathy through empathy training. Introduction A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students enrolled in it. The main purpose of the school is to develop the student through knowledge acquisition so that he/she may become a social being. By this, the student is expected to learn how to relate with fellow students, teachers and significant others in the school on the one hand, live in a harmonious way (by blending with societal values) in the society on the other hand. The school is also expected to be a place where students should feel safe and secure, and where they can count on being...
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...Violence in Schools: How to Stop Bullying Jamayla Pye Strayer University Natalie Stratis-Malak Crime and Criminal Behavior 8/23/15 Violence in Schools: How to Stop Bullying School violence is a big issue. One of the main reasons for school violence is that bullying is getting out of hand. There has always been bullies, since the beginning of time. But never have we had so many school shootings as a result. Low self-esteem or abuse caused by bullying from peers can cause violence to occur. While most bullied children do not become violent, others do resort to violent acts as a direct effect of the bullying they have went through. This violence can range from simple fist fights to school shootings. “Bullied children are humiliated on a regular basis and psychologists have recognized that there is a strong connection between humiliation and violence” (Gilligan, 1997). There is only so much that tormented children can take before they resort to violence in return. We as a people have to put a stop to this violence before more children are lost. Several ways to prevent bullying and school violence would be to distinguish a bully and a victim, teaching children to forgive, and have in place bully interventions at home and school. It seems to be a pretty accurate theory that violent families create violent children, who in turn become violent adults. The definition of a bully is someone who deliberately causes, or tries to cause, harm or discomfort to someone else. These...
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...December 20, 2012 HCA/250 Bullying in the workplace Journal review assignment Bullying in the workplace Journal review assignment Workplace bullying is when an individual repeatedly, harms the mental health of another person or several by mistreating them in more than one form of abuse. It is the need of an individual to have control over another targeting them, conducting methods finding the right timing and location to intimidate. It can escalate to having more than one person bullying or a group of bullies, either voluntarily or coerced in to mistreating another co-worker. Bullying is associated with negative job satisfaction and retention. It can have horrible effects on a person’s health. Bullying can be a result of current economic circumstances that can lead to hostility and violence. Bullying differs from other violence because it is repeated over months at a time, in contrast to other forms of violence that can be isolated incidents. The journal article shows substantial research that bullying in the workplace has severe negative effects on the health and well-being of those individuals who are targeted by the perpetrators. These effects can put organizations in to economic strains. There are occupational health nurses that can intervene to help the employees and make the company more profitable by taking educational programs and counseling on bullying for those individuals that have experienced bullying and those who want to help. Bullying should not be accepted...
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...Violence In The Workplace By: Guiseppina Saieva HCA/250 May 26, 2012 Carolyn Moore Violence In The Workplace Bullying is aggressive behavior that maximizes power and control, intending to hurt, threaten or frighten another person. Workplace violence can be any physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse that occurs in the workplace setting. Employers are responsible for providing a safe workplace environment for their employees but people still report they have been bullied at work. Cyber bullying as been addressed regarding children and adolescents but there has been less focus on cyber bulling in the workplace. There has been an increased risk of workplace bullying especially male dominated workplace settings. A survey was done by Australian manufacturing workers and the results included that 34% of the respondents were bullied face-to-face and 10.4% were cyber bullied. Bullying in the workplace can be a result of negative job satisfaction and retention. This can also have an effect on the health of employees. A survey was completed by newly licensed nurses in the U.S. and themes emerged from these surveys which included structural bullying, not involved in a clique, and leaving the job. Bullying is more common with new nurses and is experienced first and second hand by them. Bullying needs to be explored and researched more so they can find strategies to eliminate this behavior...
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...looks at bullying and other forms of violence in a school setup, at work and through the social media. In definition, bullying can be defined as the act of using force, coercion or threat to intimidate, abuse or imposing aggressive dominion over others (Kuykendall, 2012). Some people argue that for such a behavior to fit the definition of bullying, it has to be habitual and repetitive. It may not necessarily be the case since there may be a particular person who likes picking on his colleagues after a long time. As long as the act involves the characteristics of coercion, threats, and use of force meant to intimidate abuse or impose aggressive dominion, then the act qualifies as bullying. In a situation where there is continued bullying, a prerequisite perception always comes into the mind of a bully or any other party involved: physical and the social power imbalance. There are many behaviors that qualify as bullying especially when they are directed towards a particular person on a repetitive manner. These behaviors include; threats, verbal harassments, coercion, physical assaults and many other mean acts towards an intended individual. There are also many factors that are highlighted as justifications of bullying including; sexuality, religion, class, gender, race, personality, lineage, body language, appearance, reputation, behavior, size, strength or ability (Kuykendall, 2012). All of these are rationalizations that are heighted as causing factors of bullying behaviors...
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...Violence in the Workplace HCA 250 November 24, 2012 Violence in the workplace has become so bad throughout each state and in the world today. Workplace violence has not only cost American employers in dollars but also in cents. The violence has been taking its toll on the employees day to day. There are beyond numerous numbers of nonfatal acts of violence in the workplace. Who would have thought that waking up in the morning and going to work would be so bad and targeted by violence, discrimination and even some retaliation at work? This has become so sad and disturbing. Now-a-days, children cannot even go to school without being bullied or harassed. The article that was chosen is called “Trends in the Workplace Violence in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce”. This is a very informative article that speaks about the types of violence and how it has increased within the last decade. The article has taken some of the present data of violence in the workplace and compared it to the data that was collected about 13 years ago. The setting of this article took place in Australia and was focused on a few hundred nurses whom worked in rural areas throughout Australia, who worked in the health facilities. According to the article it stated that there has been an “increase in all incidents” that were “reported violence in the workplace between 1995 and 2008” (Opie, Lenthall, & Dollard, 2010). Several times of violence that had been reported were either verbal aggression, physical...
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...Violence in schools is a growing problem and depression is often used to explain why this rise in violence is happening. Abuse at home and bullying can be a root cause for depression which lead to a root cause of gun violence. The lack of help for depression can lead to worse things if not treated which could lead to gun violence. Many kids in high school especially deal with violence in school. According to Kann L, McManus T, Harris WA, et al. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 7.8% students have been in a physical fight at school and 20.2% have been bullied on school property. (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance) Because of this, in can be concluded that depression is a root cause of school violence. Does the lack of availability to help for depression lead to an increase in school violence. Depression can't be...
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...Aashik Thakkar Dr. Jack Beckham. Eng 102 27th June, 2012 Violence in School. Violence in school have become a very serious problem from past many years. American Schools are not safe. “An estimated 1.5 million U.S. students between the age of 12 to 18 are victims of nonfatal crimes at school” (Hong, and Eamon 428). There is as much violence inside the school building as it is outside. Not only nonfatal crimes, also the fatal crimes such as sexual harassment, bullying and minor in possession of drugs and guns are on dramatic rise. Priscilla Thompson in ‘The New York Amsterdam News’ reported that “according to educational department recorded 800 sexual offences, 53400 fights, 28000 cases of bullying and more than 8000 weapon possession cases” (31). Whereas, in 1996-97 “Ninety percent of public schools had no ‘serious violent-crime’ reported, [but] those that did reported 7150 robberies and 10950 physical attacks” (Koch 884). The violence in school have also been upgraded as the time passed by, because surveys and research have confirmed that violent activities like ‘Bullying’ have caused students kill their peers or commit suicide. Most of the time motives behind killings in school are the same ‘Revenge.’ In 1997, “Michael Carneal, 14, Kill[ed] three students and injured five others at his ... high school ... later he says, he felt going to prison would be better than continuing to endure bullying, he was subjected to in school” (Greenya 111). Young students are...
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