Nov 12, 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...
Oct 19, 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,...
Jun 11, 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...
Mar 12, 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...
Oct 18, 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...
Oct 04, 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,...
Jun 07, 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....
Apr 21, 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...
Apr 19, 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. ...
Apr 07, 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...
Aug 13, 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...
Jul 08, 2019 More Anti-Bullying Research By Debbie Ausburn In my ongoing quest to find effective anti-bullying programs to recommend to my clients, I ran across two recent literature reviews. Both...