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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