Shared responsibility
Subtitle: beating bullying in Australian schools
By: Ian Findley
Publisher: ACER Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Camberwell, Victoria
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9781423784326
Subjects: Counseling of; Bullying in schools; Administration; General; EDUCATION; Children; Prevention; Organizations & Institutions
Description: Shared Responsibility is a proven, positive approach to beating bullying in Australianschools. At its core is the Shared Responsibility Meeting, a powerful and effectiveinterviewing process that puts an immediate stop to bullying. The process appeals toempathy by putting a real person with real feelings in the place of the object victim. Shared Responsibility looks after the needs of victims, enabling students to cope andsurvive in a competitive school environment, teaching them how to be and feel safe. The whole school community is invited to share the responsibility for creating andmaintaining.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The impact of bullying; 2 What is bullying; 3 Bullying is all about the victim; 4 Kim's story; 5 Assessing the impact; 6 The shared responsibility meeting; 7 Hang in there; 8 Keeping records; 9 Dealing with repeat offenders the second meeting; 10 Dealing with repeat offenders the third meeting; 11 Searching for facts and finding the truth; 12 Dealing with challenging students; 13 Student support the wounded student; 14 Student support body language; 15 Student support building social confidence; 16 Student support the victim student.