This Movement against Bullying needs to gain more momentum and that only happens with sharing knowledge and experience and truly empowering children to stand up for their safety online and everywhere.
London, UK (PRWEB) October 03, 2013
Dr. Lisa Pasch, an expert psychologist, talks to NoBullying.com about the Scope of Bullying in an interview released today.
Dr. Lisa Pasch is a clinical psychologist with specialty areas in working with children, adolescents, and young adults. Additionally, she has concentration areas within family therapy and addictions. She is an expert in the field of bullying and has given lectures on the topic to a variety of locations.
When it comes to whether bullying is increasing or not, Dr. Pasch said "While all the technological advances in society have brought along wonderful additions, they have also allowed for the inception of Cyber-Bullying. While the new technologies have not really introduced new psychological threats, they have made it harder to protect our youth in particular from those risks."
She defines bullying as "a subtype of aggression directed toward the interpersonal dominance of another person. Someone is being bullied when (s)he is repeatedly and over time exposed to negative actions (aggressive behavior) on the part of one or more other person(s)."
As for defining those negative actions, Dr. Pasch says "negative action constitutes a person intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict injury or discomfort onto someone else. It is important to remember that aggression can be physical (overt) or relational (covert). Cyber-bullying can fall under either category."
Treating an older bully may create a more difficult challenge as their behaviors are likely more strongly rooted at that point. The basic principles, however remain the same. Teaching empathy, perspective taking and more appropriate social skills continue to be the most important tasks.
Macartan Mulligan, Co-Founder of Treze, said "We are thrilled about the vast array of experts in the field willing to share their knowledge and experience with us to combat bullying." He added "This Movement against Bullying needs to gain more momentum and that only happens with sharing knowledge and experience and truly empowering children to stand up for their safety online and everywhere."
Mulligan encourages experts from all over the world to join the Movement against Bullying by contributing to NoBullying.com via media(at)nobullying(dot)com.
He added that parents and teachers should make a point to educate the younger generations about the sad outcome of bullying online and off line.
NoBullying.com features many pages dedicated to parents, teens, teachers, health professionals as well as posts related to cyber safety and the latest news about law making concerning curbing Bullying worldwide as well as inspirational Bullying Poems and Bullying Quotes.
The website makes a habit of updating its bullying statistics and cyber bullying statistics regularly because it is essential to understand how widespread the bullying epidemic is.
He also added that anyone suffering from bullying in any form or way can always reach out to the team of NoBullying and they will be given advice on how to stand up to bullying or protect themselves online.
The founders of the website hope that viewers can truly learn about bullying definition as well as school bullying and workplace bullying and put a serious effort to making it stop by education and caution and not by violence. NoBullying.com is not a mere website but an actual movement against bullying.