The World Health Organizations Health Behavior in School-Aged Children International Report (HBSC) 2005/2006 survey, defines Bullying as the “assertion of interpersonal power through aggression” (Currie, et al., 2008). The effects of the negative physical or verbal actions cause distress to its victims and with repeated bullying, the aggressor increases their power while the victims lose theirs. The report states that young individuals who are victims of bullying, will increasingly become less able to defend themselves and will experience a “range of issues such as depression, anxiety and in extreme cases, suicide” (Currie, et al., 2008).
KiVa Program Due to the devastating effects that bullying can cause, many anti-bullying programs have been implemented in schools. KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying program developed in 2006 and is used Nationwide. The program was a request by the Finnish Ministry of Education, following the report released by the World Health Organization that revealed Finnish children’s dislike of school. The program proposes that the behavior of onlookers, which can be supporting bullies, defending the victims or being a passive observer is important in the continuation or termination of bullying (Garandeau, Lee, & Salmivalli, 2014). …show more content…
In the nine-month study, the students were given a questionnaire, in which they were given the definition of bullying and how to classify an incident as bullying. They were then asked to nominate classmates who fit the description provided by the survey. They could nominate as many classmates as they saw fit. The three categories for nomination were “A) Starts Bullying; B) Makes others join in the bullying, and C) Always finds new ways of harassing the victim” (C. Salmivalli,
KiVa Program Due to the devastating effects that bullying can cause, many anti-bullying programs have been implemented in schools. KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying program developed in 2006 and is used Nationwide. The program was a request by the Finnish Ministry of Education, following the report released by the World Health Organization that revealed Finnish children’s dislike of school. The program proposes that the behavior of onlookers, which can be supporting bullies, defending the victims or being a passive observer is important in the continuation or termination of bullying (Garandeau, Lee, & Salmivalli, 2014). …show more content…
In the nine-month study, the students were given a questionnaire, in which they were given the definition of bullying and how to classify an incident as bullying. They were then asked to nominate classmates who fit the description provided by the survey. They could nominate as many classmates as they saw fit. The three categories for nomination were “A) Starts Bullying; B) Makes others join in the bullying, and C) Always finds new ways of harassing the victim” (C. Salmivalli,