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- Source Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. barbaracslopes@gmail.com. Abstract
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- Working towards a detection of bullying related morbidity.
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- Is there a syndrome of bullying
Differences Between Victims of Bullying and Non-victims on Levels of Paranoid Ideation and Persecutory Symptoms, the Presence of Aggressive Traits, the Display of Social Anxiety and the Recall of Childhood Abuse Experiences in a Portuguese Mixed Clinical Sample.Lopes BC. SourceFaculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. barbaracslopes@gmail.com. AbstractBACKGROUND:Bullying has been considered as a traumatic experience that can lead to paranoid ideation in students (Campbell and Morrison, 2007). This study aimed to explore differences concerning experiences of childhood trauma, the display of social anxiety behaviours, paranoid ideation, and aggressive traits and behaviour in a mixed clinical population with and without persecutory delusions, between individuals who reported being victims of bullying versus those who did not. METHOD:A total of 61 individuals with diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder were given a battery of questionnaires that measured bullying experiences, childhood abuse and experiences of threat and subordination, paranoid ideation, social anxiety behaviours, shame, and aggressive traits and behaviours. RESULTS:Data on the differences between the victims of bullying and non-victims, in terms of recalling being bullied, showed higher scores on childhood abuse, experiences of threat and subordination within the family, aggressive traits and higher display of persecutory symptoms and less social anxiety behaviours. CONCLUSION:Bullying is a traumatic phenomenon that is reported by people who suffer from persecutory delusions to a higher degree than those who do not. This study, thus, gives support to the idea that childhood abuse within the family is associated with bullying experiences and that a traumatic infancy may lead to the use of aggressive traits and behaviours to deal with a threatening environment (Bentall and Fernyhough, 2008). This argument raises clinical issues regarding anger management and addressing bullying experiences in individuals with persecutory ideation. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. KEY PRACTITIONER MESSAGE:The importance of bullying experiences in clinical practice: anger management and the relationship between aggressive temperaments and persecutory ideation. Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2011 Dec 9;24(1):77-82. doi: 10.1515/ijamh.2012.011. Working towards a detection of bullying related morbidity.Srabstein J. SourceChildren's National Medical Center, Montgomery County Outpatient Center, Rockville, MD, USA. jsrabste@cnmc.org AbstractBACKGROUND:Physicians are being confronted with the responsibility of detecting bullying related health and safety risks in different clinical settings. METHODS:Recommendations are being made on the basis of research evidence of a significant link of bullying with a wide array of health and safety problems; the author's clinical routine practice of ascertaining patients' participation in bullying and a recommended role for clinical detection ofbullying within a whole-community base strategy for its prevention. RECOMMENDATIONS:There is a need to develop a standardized strategy for detection of bullying related morbidity which could be utilized in all clinical settings with sensitivity to developmental and cultural differences in the understanding of what is meant by bullying. Such an approach should ascertain the exposure of different types of bullying across social settings and its symptomatic repercussions. Its results should be used for clinical decisions to procure intervention and treatment, within a three-tier bullying prevention strategy. CONCLUSIONS:The present paper is the result of a work-in-progress which will contribute to efforts to develop a clinical practice guideline providing a standardized strategy for the detection and intervention of bullying related health and safety problems, within a primary or specialty pediatric setting.Bullying is at the intersection of many health and safety risks and health practitioners are challenged with the critical public health responsibility of their detection, prevention, and intervention. It would be expected that the recommendations contained in this article should facilitate the development of strategies to fulfill such a responsibility. Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2011 Dec 9;24(1):91-6. doi: 10.1515/ijamh.2012.013. Is there a syndrome of bullying?Srabstein J, Piazza T. SourceDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Childrens's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. jsrabste@cnmc.org AbstractOBJECTIVE:We investigated the existence of a psychosomatic disorder associated with bullying by delineating its health and safety and correlates, and defining the demographic characteristics of the USA adolescents affected by this condition. METHODS:This study was based on an analysis of USA data from the 1996 World Health Organization Health Behavior in School-aged Children survey. The survey provides nationally-representative, cross-sectional survey information on 9938 USA students in Grades 6-10. We examined those students who were involved in bullying as a victim and/or as a bully, with or without a self-reported cluster of depression, "bad mood", "feeling low", "feeling nervous" and sleeping difficulties, and one or more physical symptoms (headaches, stomach aches, back aches, dizziness). RESULTS:A cluster of physical and emotional symptoms linked to their participation in bullying as bullies and/or victims was reported by 9.5% of adolescents, with a higher frequency of 8th Grade students and a predominance of females. These students were 8.14 times more likely to hurt themselves on purpose and 4.20 times more likely to hurt others purposely than their peers who were not involved in bullying and did not suffer from a cluster of physical and emotional symptoms. CONCLUSIONS:This study may elicit further examination and debate about the existence of a nosological entity linked to bullying. Pending further research, the present results should support the need to ascertain participation in bullying, as a bully and/or as a victim, in all pediatric visits. Furthermore, there is a need to enquire about symptoms and risks related to this form of abuse. Violence Vict. 2012;27(3):396-413. Directory: documents documents -> Concept stage documents -> Concept stage documents -> The great global switch-off documents -> Nonprofit grant application documents -> The Truth about the Rwandan Genocide documents -> Annual InStructional unit plan documents -> Chaos equipment included Download 2.3 Mb. Share with your friends:
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