To prevent persistent victimization, schools and teachers need to be better equipped to respond effectively when a student first becomes a target of bullying ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• July 2019

A commonly suggested strategy for addressing bullying is for victims to seek help from a trusted person. Despite this recommendation, there are a group of adolescent victims who choose not to seek help. This study aimed to identify factors associated with not seeking help among adolescents who experienced bullying victimisation. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• February 2022

Children with asthma face serious mental health risk, but the pathways remain unclear. This study aimed to examine bullying victimisation and perpetration in children with asthma and a comparison sample without a chronic health condition, and the role of bullying in moderating psychosocial adjustment outcomes for those with asthma. A sample of children with and without asthma, and their parents, were recruited from hospital clinics. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• June 2021

School bullying is a public health concern affecting the physical and mental health of children and young people. While school-based interventions to prevent bullying have been developed internationally, the effectiveness of many interventions has been mixed and modest. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• October 2022

Previous studies have shown that there is overlap between victimization and the perpetration of bullying, and social and motivational variables are known to mediate this relationship. However, the effects of different moral disengagement strategies have not been studied, despite the fact that they exert a major influence on aggressive behavior. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• November 2020

These results highlight the importance of working with both male and female caregivers when addressing children’s bullying behaviour. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• October 2017

The perspectives of professionals involved in bullying and cyberbullying policy construction, across three different Australian states ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• January 2016

Several meta-analyses have demonstrated that bullying prevention programs are successful in reducing bullying. However, scant research addresses if and how such anti-bullying efforts affect long-term internalizing health problems and even less on later use of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• August 2022

The prevalence of bullying worldwide is high (UNESCO, 2018). Over the past decades, many anti-bullying interventions have been developed to remediate this problem. However, we lack insight into for whom these interventions work and what individual intervention components drive the total intervention effects. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• July 2022

Whole-school capacity-building intervention in early and middle childhood can improve the likelihood and frequency of positive parent–child communication about bullying ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• November 2018