Cyberbullying: prevention and intervention in schools using a three-tier model

Project (Ed.S., School Psychology) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.The authors collaborated and shared equal responsibility in all aspects of the development of this project, which, based on current research, suggests prevention and intervention methods to address the problem of cyberbullying among school-age youth. Traditional bullying is already acknowledged as a serious problem in the schools, but because cyberbullying is new to many people, it can go unnoticed. The research on the subject is fairly new and because of the nature of technology, the issue is constantly changing. Because research shows that being involved in cyberbullying is associated with negative effects in school-age youth (such as lowered academic success, anxiety, depression and even suicide) there is an urgent need for awareness of the problem. Cyberbullying is often connected to the school environment, so, school policy and practice, as well as civil law are also considerations in the cyberbullying issue. \ud The goal of this project is to collect current information on cyberbullying and to provide training workshops for school administrators and teachers as well as parents of school-age children. The trainings include prevention and intervention methods to avoid and address the problem of cyberbullying.\ud The prepared projects are: a 4-hour PowerPoint training workshop for administrators and teachers and a 2-hourPowerPoint awareness and prevention workshop for parents of school-age youth. Provided as support to the training workshops are: a presenter???s manual and presenter notes included with each of the PowerPoint slides. Any school psychologist, administrator or teacher can use the PowerPoint presentations to train a target audience of administrators/teachers or parents. The expected outcomeof the workshops is that the participants will be introduced to the problem of cyberbullying and guidelines for the use of research-based cyberbullying prevention and intervention methods for school administrators, teachers, and parents.School Psycholog