Helping Adults and Children Handle Bullies - INTERNET REGISTRATION CLOSED
6 CE Hours
May 2, 2025
6 CE Hours
10:00 am - 5:15 pm ET
Live Interactive Webinar
Seminar Description
Childhood bullying has been a persistent problem for decades. This webinar will look at recent research, the advent of cyberbullying, and programs that have been found effective in school systems. How children can defend themselves psychologically and verbally will be addressed, as well as the role of parents and therapists. Adult bullying is a surprising new development, with a rapid increase since Covid in numerous areas of life: from domestic violence and sexual harassment to workplace bullying and hostile community meetings to online aggression and media portrayals of bullying. Positive methods will be addressed for individual targets of bullies, bystanders, organizations and therapists.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
· Identify three major areas of negative consequences of childhood bullying.
· Describe the similarities and differences of in-person bullying and cyberbullying.
· Describe the similarities and differences between childhood and adult bullying.
· Describe techniques therapists can teach clients to use in response to bullying.
· Describe measures parents, schools, and organizations can implement to stop bullying.
Agenda
10:00 a.m. Child Bullies, the Bullied, and the Bystanders
• Trends and dynamics of childhood bullying
• Teen bullies, dating aggression, attitudes about relationships
• Cyberbullying similarities and differences with in-person bullying
• Role of bystanders, parents, and school cultures
• Consequences of bullying: educational, health, and lifelong
11:30 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. Interventions with Child Bullies
· • What the target of the bullying can say and do:
· Self-affirming thoughts and verbal responses
· • What parents can say and do to empower and protect child
· • What school systems are doing
· • What child and family therapists can say and do
1:15 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. Adult Bullies
· Increasing prevalence: domestic violence, workplace, community, cultural role models
· Domineering patterns of Cluster B personality disorders
· 10 Primitive emotional powers (hidden in plain sight)
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Interventions with Adult Bullies
· What adult targets of bullying can do:
· Self-affirming thoughts, verbal responses, written responses
· What bystanders can say and do
· • The importance of setting limits and consequences
· • Organizational policies and interventions
· • Therapist techniques and role-play exercises