27 Feb, 2023 When Off-Campus Speech Is On-Campus Bullying By Debbie Ausburn In its 2021 opinion Mahoney Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L., the Supreme Court ruled that the school in that case could not suspend that...
12 Nov, 2022 A School Banned Smart Phones, and Many Students Approved (Eventually) By Debbie Ausburn A small boarding school in Massachusetts banned smart phones this fall for all of its students and faculty. The students initially...
19 Oct, 2022 Bullying v. Conflict By Debbie Ausburn In our efforts to stamp bullying, we need to be sure that we aren't penalizing ordinary conflict. We have to know the difference,...
11 Jun, 2022 Correlation Between Bullying and Self-Harm By Debbie Ausburn A recent study from Ontario delved into the self-reports of almost 3,000 adolescents in the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study. The...
12 Mar, 2022 We Need More Rigorous Research for School-based Violence Prevention Programs By Debbie Ausburn The Trauma, Violence & Abuse journal recently published a sobering analysis of numerous violence prevention programs aimed at young...
18 Oct, 2021 Can Youth Organizations Help Prevent Cyberbullying? By Debbie Ausburn One silver lining of the pandemic was the decreased number of bullying incidents, most likely because students were not at school to...
04 Oct, 2021 Which Anti-Bullying Programs Actually Work? By Debbie Ausburn October is National Bullying Prevention Month, so we will hear a lot of ideas about how to prevent school–based bullying. Unfortunately,...
07 Jun, 2021 School System Agrees to New Anti-Bullying Efforts After Student Suicide By Debbie Ausburn The Cincinnati Public School System has agreed to a proposed settlement of a lawsuit arising out of the suicide of an 8-year-old student....
21 Apr, 2021 Anti-Bullying Programs May Be Aiming at the Wrong Target By Debbie Ausburn A recent Penn State study of middle and high school students found that most students suffer bullying from their friends or...
19 Apr, 2021 Resilience Factors Can Help Prevent Bullying By Debbie Ausburn In my quest to find good anti-bullying programs, I ran across a survey analysis concluding that family resilience factors may help. ...
07 Apr, 2021 Do Bullying Prevention Programs Work? By Debbie Ausburn Anti-bullying programs get a lot of attention these days, because everyone wants to spare children the trauma of true bullying. Yet in...
13 Aug, 2020 Cyberbullying By Debbie Ausburn With so many children learning virtually this fall and otherwise having to keep in touch with their friends by electronic, cyberbullying...