Stop Bullying Now Dr. Elizabeth Gail S. Marsal North Carolina - - PDF document

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Stop Bullying Now

• Dr. Elizabeth “ Gail” S. Marsal

North Carolina Wesleyan College Rocky Mount , NC

Childnet Video

 http://digizen.org/resources/cyberbullying/films/uk/lfit‐film.aspx

Effects of Cyber Bullying

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Lowered self est eem

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Variet y of emot ional responses including being scared, frust rat ed, angry, and depressed

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Increased suicidal ideation

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Case of Megan Meier

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What Do These Mean?

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AAMOF

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MYOB

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420

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6Y

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AML

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D46?

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HF AC

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UDI

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LULT

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WRU@

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YF

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KPC

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LMNK

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ADIH

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PIR

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POS

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LH6

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LGH

Basic Terms

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Flaming

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Cyber bullying

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Cyber harassing / cyber st alking

How It Works

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Direct At t acks – messages sent t o kids direct ly

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Cyber bullying by proxy – using others to help cyber bully the victim, either wit h or wit hout t he accomplice’s knowledge

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Direct Attacks

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Inst ant Messaging/ Text Messaging Harassment

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St ealing Passwords

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Web Sites

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Sending Pict ures Through Email and Cell

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Int ernet Polling

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Social Networks

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Sending Malicious Code

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Sending Porn & Junk Email

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Impersonat ion

Cyber Bullying by Proxy

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When a cyber bully get s someone else t o do t heir dirty work.

 Warning or Not ify Wars  Parent al Punishment  Cyberbully get s cont rol of t he vict ims account  Post ing in chat rooms for child molester, hate groups

Four Types of Cyber Bullies

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The Vengeful Angel

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The Power Hungry or Revenge of t he Nerds

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The “ Mean Girls”

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The Inadvertent Cyber Bullly or “ Because I Can”

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Parental Strategies for Prevention

 Don’ t overreact, kids fear that you will call the other parents or

school, blame the victim or take away Internet privileges

 Be supportive, sticks and stones can break bones  Let the guidance counselor know to watch for in school bullying

and child’s response

 Children go between role of bully and victim  Is your child at risk of physical harm or assault?  How are they handling the attacks emotionally?  Take a printed copy of all instances to LE  Use a monitoring software ie Webwatcher or eBlaster

Common Sense Strategies

 Talk about it  Ignore it  Restrict communications  Restrict being added to the buddy list  Google  Block the sender  “ Warn” the sender  Report to IS

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 Report to S

chool

 Report to Police  Take Legal Action