Table of Contents

Preface List of Contributors Part I: Home Introduction 1. Pre-school children: experiences of being parented and the routes to bullying 2. Working with parents to manage children’s behaviour 3. ‘Bully 4 U’: a community approach to bullying 4. From home to school Part II: Home and School Introduction 5. Verbal Bullying: the myth of ‘sticks and stones’ 6. Using group dynamics to support vulnerable children: including victims of school bullying 7. Using Conflict resolution and peer mediation to tackle bullying 8. Developing pupil counseling and peer support initiatives 9. The ‘Safer Schools- Safer Cities’ Bullying Project Part III: Home, school and community Introduction 10. Seeking to develop a Whole Community response 11. School Watch: working with pupils to make schools safer places 12. Tackling bullying and racial harassment in schools, children’s homes and youth clubs 13. Offenders at school: links between school failure and aggressive behaviour 14. Developing a programme to reduce bullying in young offenders’ institutions References Subject Index Author Index