by Carolyn | Nov 3, 2014 | Bullying
With nearly one-third of students in the United States having experienced bullying in school, and nearly half of adolescents report having been the object of cyber-bullying, October is National Bullying Prevention month. Sadly, only a small percentage of children who...
by Carolyn | May 9, 2012 | Bullying, Conflict Resolution, Family Therapy
Recently I was asked to discuss the problem of bullying for a local morning TV news segment. I wondered just how helpful I would be because my work is primarily with adults, not adolescents. Then it dawned on me that many of the emotionally abusive patterns that...
by Carolyn | Apr 19, 2012 | Bullying, Family Therapy, Parenting Tweens
There has been quite a bit of publicity lately regarding bullying and rightly so. 80% of bullying is witnessed by others and it’s doing great harm to the emotional safety of a child. As a society, we can no longer allow this rash of hurtful words and actions to...