National Bullying Prevention Month, held every October, is a call to action to respond to bullying behavior. The National Bullying Prevention Center of Pacer, a nonprofit organization that helps ...

The National Academies are committed to the principles of integrity, civility, and respect in all of our activities. We look to you to be a partner in this commitment by helping us to maintain a ...

Late August and September are the honeymoon season in many schools across the United States— the time of year when students are exploring new friendships, feeling out the shifting social hierarchies ...

Not long ago, a national organization that provides mental health services for school-aged children posted an open question for followers on its social media page: You witness a student being bullied; ...

Additional attention to the definition of bullying and policies related to the reporting of bullying could improve preventive efforts. (Cafasso, Dockrey, Dolan, Donlin, Myers) Improving school climate ...

Bringing emotional education and therapeutic techniques into schools can help children learn to regulate uncomfortable emotions and social situations without bullying. Bullying has a hugely negative ...

American policymakers have been urgently seeking solutions to school bullying and violence in recent years, but the issue had been receiving attention in many other countries long before it hit the ...

Bullying is a form of aggressive, potentially violent behavior. Bullying can occur at school, online, in the workplace, or at home. It can also be grounded in prejudice. Bullying is an aggressive ...

School bullying can have serious consequences for victims including depression, psychosis, self-harm and suicide. With increasing evidence of harm, a groundswell of school anti-bullying programs and ...