Kayla Mott Mr. Johnston English II 21 October 2016 “Almost 30% of U.S. adolescents are involved in bullying”(Healle). Students are being bullied because of their sexuality. Bullying in schools is one of the common places bullying occurs, but also in workplaces. Bullying can cause mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and phobias. These mental illnesses can lead to suicide. Schools need to take better actions to bullying on school grounds, people are being bullied due to their sexuality, bullying does not happen in just schools, workplaces too, due to bullying it can cause mental illnesses and can lead to suicide. Students are bullied over little things such as their sexuality. Chitnis discovered LGBTQ adolescents are more likely to be subjected to bullying than homosexual adolescents, therefore schools should help LGBTQ students more. Bullying mostly happens when someone is different than the bully. For example being apart of the LGBTQ community. Many people get bullied because of their point of view of others.“Results indicated a strong association between youths identifying as GNC and school-based victimization, with incidences of bullying increasing with greater GNC identification. Out of all GNC youth, 14% reported experiencing some form of bullying, 8% reported missing school because they felt unsafe being there, and 6% reported either being threatened or having been physically injured because of their gender identification.” (haelle). Many students, employees etc. have been affected by bullying from their sexuality. Many have even been injured, and threatened to even take their own life. As of 2013 many students started to miss school due to being taunted by their peers and do not want to deal with being taughted. “Dr. Gordon and her co investigators analyzed data on 5,503 public school students in grades 9-12 from four specific school districts in the United States: Los Angeles; San Diego; Chicago; and Broward County, Fla. These school districts were chosen because they had recently added a new question to the survey regarding socially assigned gender expression, making them the first districts in the nation to do so in 2013.”(Chitnis).Millions of students suffer from bullying."There's substantial public health literature documenting an array of mental and physical health correlates of such victimization. However, there's been less focus on discrimination and violence victimization targeting gender expression, broadly, although there is some evidence that this is an area of concern," said Dr. Gordon, who presented the findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.”(Haelle). Adolescents don't report bullying due to the fact that they are scared that more people will start to bully them or even the bullying gets worse from the original bully. Bullying can have such a powerful effect on others it can even take their life .”Particular concern about youth who fall into the category of bully-victims may be reasonable. Researchers have found that kids who have been both victims and perpetrators of bullying are at highest risk for disorders of physical and mental health as compared to kids who were either solely victims or perpetrators (Wolke, Copeland, Angold, & Costello, 2013). It is important not only to look at correlates of bullying such as academic, mental, and physical health problems but also at the extent to which indices of adaptive daily living or subjective well-being such as positive and negative affect or life satisfaction are related to bullying experiences.”(Townsend). Bullying is not right and people need to accept each other for who they are. Bullying can make people who are victims suffer from many mental illness.”Particular concern about youth who fall into the category of bully-victims may be reasonable. Researchers have found that kids who have been both victims and perpetrators of bullying are at highest risk for disorders of physical and mental health as compared to kids who were either solely victims or perpetrators (Wolke, Copeland, Angold, & Costello, 2013). It is important not only to look at correlates of bullying such as academic, mental, and physical health problems but also at the extent to which indices of adaptive daily living or subjective well-being such as positive and negative affect or life satisfaction are related to bullying experiences.” (Townsend). Bullying should be considered a crime due to the fact that it has made many people to take their own life. “Relationships among bully victimization, bully perpetration, ethnic identity, and subjective well-being (i.e., life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) were examined in a group of urban, ethnically diverse early adolescents. Indices of subjective well-being correlated with participants' scores on bully victimization and perpetration measures but bully perpetration was not significantly related to negative affect. The authors used cluster analysis to determine participant's status as either bully-victims, perpetrators, non-participants, or victimperpetrators.” (Townsend).Bullies get a lot of “power” from hurting people and being negative toward them. Workplaces deal with harassment and bullying from the other employees."There is also a continuous need for school training programs to ensure staff respond appropriately to bullying incidents, and that investigation procedures are followed," Dr. El Sherif said in an interview, echoing her research team's conclusions. "Finally, it is critical to streamline a process of communication between medical providers, school officials, and parents to allow for a team approach to bullying," she said.”(Haelle). Bullies often don't realize the consequences and the issues they are creating. “Almost 30% of U.S. adolescents are involved in bullying, which is linked to various mental health conditions, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, self-harming behaviors, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts, Dr. El Sherif noted. Yet only one in five children who need mental health evaluations actually receive services.” (Haelle). Bullying is a dangerous problem and the actions the victim takes is costly."Our study showed that the biggest barriers to mental health care were the lack of screening and counseling about bullying by medical providers," Dr. El Sherif said in the interview. "There were also school system challenges, including inaction by school personnel and poor enforcement of investigation procedures. Inadequate school follow-up and communication with parents were other major obstacles."(Haelle). Schools need to handle bullying of students many students get away with bullying, due to a teacher not sticking up for them and helping the victim. “To learn what factors are contributing to poor access to services, Dr. El Sherif and her associates conducted focus groups with bullying victims and their parents as well as interviews with teachers and community mental health providers. Based on the findings from these interviews and focus groups, the team developed a survey they administered to 440 middle school and high school students in Cumberland County, N.C. Among these students, 29% said they had been victims of bullying in the past.”(Healle).Students are most affected with bullying because everyone wants to fit in.Schools and workplaces need to take better action to bullying on their property grounds, because people are being bullied due to their sexuality, and bullying happens everywhere even in workplaces, due to bullying it may cause mental illnesses and could end up leading to suicide. Work cited: Chitnis, Deepak. "Gender nonconformists more vulnerable to bullies." Clinical Psychiatry News Apr. 2016: 17. Academic OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2016. Haelle, Tara. "Bullied adolescents face mental health care barriers." Clinical Psychiatry News Jan. 2016: 22. Academic OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2016. Haelle, Tara. "Early ADHD, ODD symptoms linked to later bullying." Clinical Psychiatry NewsMar. 2016: 27. Academic OneFile. Web. 12 Oct. 2016. Love, Paula. "Every Student Succeeds unleashes funding flexibility: states and districts can direct block grants to where they are most needed." District Administration July 2016: 56. Academic OneFile. Web. 12 Oct. 2016. Townsend, Terri. "Not just 'eating our young': Workplace bullying strikes experienced nurses, too." American Nurse Today 11.2 (2016). Academic OneFile. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.
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