Roberts - Working with kids who bully: new perspectives on prevention and intervention

New Perspectives on Prevention and Intervention

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Roberts, Walter B., author.

Title: Working with kids who bully : new perspectives on prevention andintervention / Walter B. Roberts, Jr.

Description: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin/A SAGE Company, 2016. |Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007887 | ISBN 978-1-5063-3387-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Bullying in schoolsPrevention. | Counseling in elementaryeducation. | Counseling in middle school education.

Classification: LCC LB3013.3 R634 2016 | DDC 371.5/8dc23 LC record availableat http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007887

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This is another piece in a lifetime of research and advocacy on behalf of helpingschools and communities be safe places for all students. It is also the lastinstallment of a trilogy of efforts to look at how bullying behaviors impactkids, families, and the communities in which they live.

Through three decades, I have examined bullying behaviors and helped communitiesdevelop prevention and intervention techniques and strategies to address them.These approaches have not followed traditional pathways. In 2006, we started thejourney with Bullying From Both Sides: Strategic Interventions for WorkingWith Bullies and Victims. That book was one of the first efforts toemphasize the reality that there are two parties involved in the bullyingdynamicone who creates the problem and one to whom the problematic behavior isdirected. Where approaches to that date had focused primarily on those who weretargeted for bullying behaviors, Bullying From Both Sides began thediscussion of how to also approach and better understand the instigators.

In 2008, we turned our focus again to another nontraditional and overlooked groupwho plays a pivotal role in helping reduce bullying behaviorsparents.Working With Parents of Bullies and Victims was an effort toencourage educators and others in supervisory positions to see the value inbringing parents into the problem-solving equation. Parents, by and large, tothat date had been excluded from the helping process. The truth is that withoutparental involvement our efforts are likely destined to be far less successfuland long-term than desired.

The next eight years were devoted to intensive advocacy on behalf of safe schoolsand bullying prevention efforts. These efforts involved public testimony at boththe legislative and judicial levels, along with exhaustive efforts to passlegislation in one of the last states in the country to have viable statewideequitable bullying prevention protection in place for K12 children. I have metthe most remarkable people through professional conferences, school andcommunity workshops, and consultationsdedicated professionals, parents, andkids, always the kids. Their experiences and stories helped shape the directionof this book, educated me about their needs, and reminded me of the originalmission I devoted myself to in the beginningto look at the problem of bullyingfrom different angles in an effort to help the kids and those engaged with them to developthe best-fit approaches to solving the issue.

There are many people to thank for this most recent part of the journey. First, Iwant to thank the editorial staff at Corwin over the last ten-plus years that Ihave had the honor of working with and who have helped me learn the business ofwriting professional trade books. Jessica Allan has stuck with me since herfirst day on the job and believed me all the times I told her, Yeah, yeah,yeah. Next year. I promise. Ill start on that one next year. I also owe agreat debt of gratitude to Stacy Wagner-Kinnear, who, during her time at Corwinyears ago, started me on The Trilogy, as we came to call them, and whosent me an e-mail before a national conference where I was doing a workshop onbullying prevention and inquired about my interest in possibly writing somethingon the subject. If it had not been for her, perhaps none of these books wouldhave been written.

I also want to thank the reviewers of the various drafts of this book on whomCorwin depends for publication decisions. Your reviews were kind, complimentary,and helpful. Likewise, I am grateful for the hard work of the copy editors andrelated Corwin staff who helped turn the draft manuscripts into the finalproduct. I learn so much from reviewers and editors every trip down the bookpublishing highway.

We have dedicated graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels atMinnesota State University, Mankato. They have helped me ferret out resourcesover the two years this book was in process, collate the massive amount ofresources consulted for the final version, and vet references. Those studentsinclude Dharshini Goonetilleke, Becca Thompson, and Lauren Solenek.