Childhood Trauma
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Childhood Trauma
Abstract
Trauma is defined as an event that is considered to be more overwhelming that a person ordinarily would be prepared to encounter.
Bullying
Bullying is defined as aggressive behavior with the use of force that can cause harm on another person. Bullying can consist of verbal harassment or physical assault. Bullying usually consists of three types of abuse: emotional, physical and verbal. It can range from one on one bullying or have one on more than one such as a supervisor who is in charge of his or her employees in a workplace setting. It is considered a repeated act of aggressive behavior to intentionally hurt another person or group of people. Sometimes it is viewed as a way to gain power. Bullying can occur in any type of setting where people have to interact with one another such as school, church, home and workplace.
School bullying has become the most popular in the last decade. It has become so serious that kids and students have resorted to suicide because of not being able to handle it. Some states are even going as far to pass various laws on the prevention of bullying. In schools bullying can start with the mere name calling, verbal or written abuse or exclusion from a different group. For example in an elementary school setting it can be viewed as one student calling another student “fat” or “ugly. This can manifest the older the students get and can possibly turn into physical violence such as being attacked or beat up and threaten. Bullying in school can also consist of one group of students who take advantage or isolate one student and taunt and tease them.
Recent research in the United States, says that bullying is a common and potentially damaging form of violence among children. Bullying in the United States is difficult to measure because just like other forms of violence it isn’t always reported. In a study of 207 junior high and high school students from small Midwestern towns, eighty...
Abstract
Trauma is defined as an event that is considered to be more overwhelming that a person ordinarily would be prepared to encounter.
Bullying
Bullying is defined as aggressive behavior with the use of force that can cause harm on another person. Bullying can consist of verbal harassment or physical assault. Bullying usually consists of three types of abuse: emotional, physical and verbal. It can range from one on one bullying or have one on more than one such as a supervisor who is in charge of his or her employees in a workplace setting. It is considered a repeated act of aggressive behavior to intentionally hurt another person or group of people. Sometimes it is viewed as a way to gain power. Bullying can occur in any type of setting where people have to interact with one another such as school, church, home and workplace.
School bullying has become the most popular in the last decade. It has become so serious that kids and students have resorted to suicide because of not being able to handle it. Some states are even going as far to pass various laws on the prevention of bullying. In schools bullying can start with the mere name calling, verbal or written abuse or exclusion from a different group. For example in an elementary school setting it can be viewed as one student calling another student “fat” or “ugly. This can manifest the older the students get and can possibly turn into physical violence such as being attacked or beat up and threaten. Bullying in school can also consist of one group of students who take advantage or isolate one student and taunt and tease them.
Recent research in the United States, says that bullying is a common and potentially damaging form of violence among children. Bullying in the United States is difficult to measure because just like other forms of violence it isn’t always reported. In a study of 207 junior high and high school students from small Midwestern towns, eighty...