The goal of this session is to increase participants’ understanding of bystander behavior in bullying with a focus on different types of actions youth can take to defend and support victims of bullying.
The purpose of this session is to provide the participant with increased awareness and knowledge about gender diversity and schools; specific strategies participants can employ to support transgender and gender diverse students will be highlighted.
In the past few months, the #MeToo movement has raised awareness about the widespread prevalence and magnitude of problems of sexual assault and sexual harassment, particularly among adults in the workplace.
This talk will present studies using multilevel approach to examine the role of school climate in promoting and prohibiting youths' school engagement and their resilience towards traditional and cyberbullying victimization across individual and school contexts.
Early childhood is an incredibly important time for the development of many key cognitive and social developmental tasks. Even in early childhood, engaging in aggressive behavior is associated with poor social and emotional outcomes.
This presentation addresses the emerging science of weight teasing and bullying (WTB) towards obese youth. WTB appears to be very common among obese children when looking to community- and clinic-based studies examining prevalence.
