The scholarly article that I chose to write about is one from the Australian Journal of Guidance & Counseling. It was written by a woman named Christine Suniti Bhat who attended Ohio University. The article is titled Cyber Bullying: Overview and Strategies for School Counselors, Guidance Officers, and All School Personnel and was written in 2008. This is a scholarly article because it is written by an expert in the field who is affiliated with a college. Along with this, the article itself contains several other sources of information. I found this article by searching on the library’s database for an article that pertained to cyber bullying.
I found this particular article interesting because it went into depth about several stories of cyber bullying as well as why this is a concern for schools around the world. It defines cyber bullying as “the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others” (Belsey, n.d., p. 8). It goes on to report several statistics about computer users in many countries as well as why counselors find this topic important. The article focuses on how technology takes bullying to the next level and how it actually differs from face to face bullying. It states the signs of people who are being bullied and how and when to step in. After that, it is divided up into outlets for cyber bullies such as instant messaging, cell phones, and social networking sites. Each contains its own unique strengths and weaknesses that bullies take advantage of.
The last seven pages are dedicated solely to how counselors can assist children who they think are being bullied or who are bullying. Often counselors and teacher are unsure of how to deal with these situations and so this article contains advice for working with these issues. Overall, I believe this article is very informative and provides a wonderful insight to the world of cyber-bullying.
I found this particular article interesting because it went into depth about several stories of cyber bullying as well as why this is a concern for schools around the world. It defines cyber bullying as “the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others” (Belsey, n.d., p. 8). It goes on to report several statistics about computer users in many countries as well as why counselors find this topic important. The article focuses on how technology takes bullying to the next level and how it actually differs from face to face bullying. It states the signs of people who are being bullied and how and when to step in. After that, it is divided up into outlets for cyber bullies such as instant messaging, cell phones, and social networking sites. Each contains its own unique strengths and weaknesses that bullies take advantage of.
The last seven pages are dedicated solely to how counselors can assist children who they think are being bullied or who are bullying. Often counselors and teacher are unsure of how to deal with these situations and so this article contains advice for working with these issues. Overall, I believe this article is very informative and provides a wonderful insight to the world of cyber-bullying.
Belsey, B. (n.d.).
June 11, 2007, from http://www.cyberbullying.ca/pdf/Cyberbullying_Article_by_Bill_
Belsey.pdfArticleCyber bullying: An emerging threat to the ‘always on’ generation. Retrieved
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