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How & Why Does Bystanding Have Such a Startling Impact on the Architecture of School Bullying and Violence?
Author(s) -
Twemlow Stuart W.,
Sacco Frank C.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.1372
Subject(s) - dysfunctional family , psychopathology , psychology , focus (optics) , school violence , criminology , developmental psychology , social psychology , clinical psychology , optics , physics
The paper summarises the literature and our clinical experience with the bystander role in school bullying and other violence. The shift from bully focus to school climate focus is central, as well as seeing the plight of the bully and victim as not signs of individual psychopathology, but signs of markedly dysfunctional school leadership systems and very dysfunctional dynamics within a school with serious bullying. We suggest based on 20 years of research, that the focus should be on an integrated bottom up approach that allows each school to find its own path. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.