### trait | disposition | aggression:

Bullying
* affects school performance, attendance, and how kids feel about themselves
  - the process of consensus-building
* also includes sexual harassment
  - part of many adults' lives
* appears to be a compulsive behaviour, driven by anxiety.
* are aggression
  - hazards
  - workplace hazards
* arises, therefore, when someone feels that they are being bullied.
* begins in elementary school, peaks in middle school, and falls off in high school.
* behavior and behavior can be controlled, changed or managed
  - that is very often one of the first steps to more serious problems
* big problem in education
  - schools and other educational establishments
* can also affect students who are bystanders
  - consist of a single interaction
* can be a response to extreme stress and frustration or a lack of supervisory skills
  - in the form of being called names, being picked on, or being excluded
* can be physical, emotional or social
  - verbal and emotional
* can cause a stress-related illness to their victims
  - both physical and emotional damage to children
  - the self-esteem level to drop dramatically in many cases
  - happen to anyone of any age
* can have a devastating effect on the lives of victimes
  - long term affects
  - include physical attacks, name-calling, verbal taunts, threats and even extortion
* can lead to extreme suffering and, in some cases, even suicide
  - physical injury, social problems, emotional problems, and even death
  - leave permanent physical and emotional injuries
  - mean many different things
  - occur at any age, in any environment, and can be long or short-term
  - still be a problem in schools
* can take many different forms
* causes psychiatric injury, a feature of which is reactive depression.
* common experience among American elementary and middle school students
  - for many children and adolescents
* covert activity.
* creates deep emotional scars in children.
* destructive force in our lives.
* distinctive pattern of deliberately harming and humiliating others.
* does occur in all schools.
* exacts a terrible toll on children.
* form of peer abuse
  - violence
* growing problem that can leave deep psychological scars or drive children to suicide.
* happens to people of all ages.
* happens when a child is picked on by another child, or group of children
  - someone verbally or physically harasses someone else
* has nothing to do with managing, achievement of tasks, team working, etc.
* health and safety issue.
* implies an imbalance in power or strength in which one child is victimized by others.
* involves deliberate, hurtful and repeated mistreatment of a target
  - repeated harassment, either physical or verbal, of someone who is weaker
* is 'words or actions intended to threaten, frighten, abuse or hurt'
  - abusive behavior
* is an abnormal way for people to deal with their emotional problems
  - age-old school problem that, left unchecked, can lead to violence
  - agent of moral decandancy
  - early form of aggressive, violent behavior
  - issue that needs to be addressed
  - any action which hurts or threatens another person, either physically or mentally
  - behaviour which is generally persistent, systematic and ongoing
  - found in rural and city schools
  - indeed a significant problem in many children's lives
  - like sexual abuse
  - more than just one single act of aggressive teasing or fighting
  - most severe in grades seven to nine
  - mostly common in schools, although it can happen anywhere at all
  - often performance art
* is often the issue which causes parents to opt for placement outside the mainstream
  - pursuit of dominance when one s own self-esteem is low or depressed
  - very physical in nature, with open attacks of aggression being the most common
  - rampant in the city schools and in society
  - recognized as the most serious and wide-spread problem facing schools today
  - repeated and systematic harassment and attacks on others
  - rife in YOIs and is likely to affect an individual's mental health
  - the most common form of violence in our society, driving the culture of violence
  - typically unpredictable, irrational and sometimes unseen by others
  - unconscionable meanness and a precursor to violence, if left unchecked
  - verbal aggression and it needs to be stopped just like hitting
  - when someone keeps doing or saying things to have power over another person
  - widespread, often ignored in schools
* is, unfortunately, relatively common in childhood.
* kind of conflict that concerns many people.
* lifelong phenomena.
* major cause of stress
  - trauma and often eclipses other recognised traumas such as bereavement
  - problem across the nation
* often happens before classes start or if classes have been dismissed early
  - involves an imbalance of power
  - starts when people pick on something that's different
* pervades the lives of school children.
* pervasive problem for school children in the U.S. as well as internationally.
* precursor to antisocial or aggressive behavior.
* problem all around the world
  - in many schools and it can take many forms
  - that occurs in the social environment as a whole
* purposeful action.
* repeated, deliberate act to hurt someone physically, verbally or psychologically.
* safety and health issue.
* significant problem for many children.
* takes many forms where there is an imbalance of power and control
  - place most frequently in school
* type of aggression, mainly psychological.
* worldwide problem and occurs in many different forms.
+ Ableism, Forms of ableism: Discrimination :: Disability
  * A common way that disabled people are abused is 'bullying'. People think of bullying as something that just happens to children at school that is not serious. This is not true. Bullying happens to people of all ages. Some people kill themselves because they have been bullied. Mencap, a charity that helps people with intellectual disability, asked over 500 disabled children and young people about bullying in a survey.
+ Category:Bullying: Violence
  * Bullying affects the process of consensus-building. The bullying of DJSasso undermines and destroys our ability to work together.