Banishing Bullying Behavior Transforming the Culture of Peer Abuse

Banishing Bullying Behavior challenges students, parents, educators, education support professionals, administrators, counselors, and policy makers to confront the culture of cruelty that is devastating our society. This book is filled with insights, personal stories, anecdotal material, and strategies that are directed to the widest audience possible. It urges us to become change agents and empower children to transform their pain, rage, and revenge to empathy, kindness, and healing. Fried and Sosland tackle the demanding questions about physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, cyber, sibling, and even summer camp bullying. What sets this book apart is Chapter Eleven, "the Student Empowerment Session," which focuses on giving students ownership of the problem and the solutions. Anti-bullying legislation and school policies are essential supports, but we must change the hearts, attitudes, and behavior of students. President Obama said it well, '¬SBullying is not normal and it is not inevitable.'¬ The implication of that statement is daunting but not impossible. Banishing Bullying Behavior will inspire you to prevent peer abuse and intervene effectively when necessary.

SuEllen Fried created BullySafeUSA, a bullying prevention program that has been introduced to ninety thousand students in thirty-six states. She has coauthored four books on bullying; is a past chairman of Prevent Child Abuse America; has appeared on the TODAY Show, on MSNBC, and in an AE documentary; and was a participant in the 2011 White House Conference on Bullying Prevention. Blanche Sosland spent most of her teaching career at the college and university level, but she also worked in classrooms ranging from early childhood to middle school. Her areas of expertise include diagnosis and remediation of reading problems in the classroom and twice-exceptional children.