Bullying is a prevalent issue that needs to be addressed and taken seriously in public school systems. According to U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2015), bullying is an unsolicited aggressive behavior among children and adolescents that involves a real perceived power imbalance. Young people who encounter bullying are at risk of psychological issues such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, or suicide. Likewise, Bhatta, Shakya, and Jefferies (2014) stated that suicide from bullying is the leading cause of death among adolescents between ages 10-19 years. Furthermore, adolescents who are victims of bullying may fear to disclose that they are victims of bullying to authority figures since retaliation may occur.
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Confidentiality is one of the preeminent ethical concerns that needs to be addressed during the initial meeting. To accentuate the importance of confidentiality in our group meetings, I will have each student to sign a written contract as well as verbally discussing the importance of it. I will expect for the topics that we will discuss in the group to remain in the group. On the other hand, as the group leader and co-leader, some of the limitations of confidentiality will include the following: 1.) If a student has the potential to be harmful to themselves or others we will have to take the action necessary to protect the student or others by contacting parents or law enforcers. 2). If child abuse is suspected we are mandated by law to report it. 3.) If a student’s record is requested by the court, we will have to respond. Students can violate confidentiality by discussing their group members’ name and the topics outside of group. If students violate confidentiality, they will be prohibited from the group immediately. In terms of ground-rules in the group, I will allow the group to develop their own rules and guidelines, but I must approve the rules before I put them in the contract. If students do not adhere by the rules listed in the contract, they will receive a verbal warning. The second warning will be in writing, and the third warning means that they will be prohibited from the
Confidentiality is a major topic within care environments. When it comes to deciding what information is shared and who it is shared amongst can be difficult. Confidential information, is information that is ‘not to be told to anyone’ (The Open University, 2015, p. 58). Information that is sensitive or not publicly known is confidential, also if information is given by a person who is in a setting where confidentially is expected then that information should remain private and not shared with others. It can be very difficult for a staff member to find the balance between knowing what information is confidential and appropriate information that needs to be shared between the staff team.
Bullying has become a major problem facing the United States today. The American Psychological Association reports that roughly 40% to 80% of children are involved in bullying on some level during their time in school. (APA, 2014) The magnitude of the problem can be observed in the statistics. In the United States, a total of 4,080,879 children between the ages of five and 18 have been the victims of bullying compared to 3,892,199 who have reported that they have engaged in bullying someone else. Additionally, 851,755 said that they have been both the victim and the bully. That's a whopping 8,824,833 people in the United States that have been involved in bullying behavior on one level or another. (High, B., 2000 Census)
Bullying can effect both bullies and victims, causing them depression and anxiety (Schneider, O'Donnell, Stueve & Coulter, 2012). This psychological distress from bullying can lead to self-harm, including suicide attempts or ideation (Schneider, O'Donnell, Stueve & Coulter, 2012) and homicide (Robers, Zhang, Truman, Department of Justice, & National Center for Education Statistics 2012). Furthermore, lower academic performance and risk of drop out have been associated with bullying (Nansel, Overpeck, Ruan, S...
Medical records and their contents have been an important issue concerning privacy for physicians and their patients. A health care reform bill which passed legislation in 1996 is known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) had a new rule put into place in 2000, which requires health care physicians and insurance providers to put into place new procedures that would guard patient health information ("Patient Privacy and Confidentiality", 2013).
There is a great importance and focus in modelling a contemporary nurse. The framework for improving this focus is accountability with three main areas: professional, ethical, legal. They all cross over and interlink with each other in many of the topics that are raised within the profession. The approach of the framework were inevitable to reduces to blame and defensive nursing attitude. This attitude can lead to nurses believing accountability is the same as blaming a professional however it is conversely nurses making decisions for individuals and engaging to improve better health outcomes. The topic around this contemporary approach is confidentiality and broken into the principles of the approach.
...rs to deal with any problems that arise from the group. It is important for them to be alert to the risks of the group. To reduce any unnecessary risks, I will understand each member’s limits, respect their requests, be invitational and not dictatorial, describe their behavior and not be judgmental, and avoid harsh verbal confrontations. These risks will also be discussed during the initial session of the group. I will counteract psychological risks by using various techniques such as blocking, caring confrontation, questioning, and assessing. I have taken precautionary measures as well by contacting my mentors and consultants and alerting them about the risks of the group I am running. If there is an ethical or legal concern, it will be documented and taken to a clinical supervisor. In addition, I have liability protection and malpractice insurance in place.
Bullying has been a fast growing problem in American schools. According to an article by Mansbacher, twelve million children are bullied every year (2012). Most people think of bullying as just a big kid beating up a smaller kid on the playground but there is so much more than that. There are actually four types of bullying; verbal, social, cyber and physical. Stopbullying.gov defines bullying as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time" (n.d.). Bullying can have long lasting detrimental effects on the victim of bullying, the bully, and those observing the bullying. Because of this, bullying is a concern of social workers in and out of schools and like many other social work issues, has the potential for ethical dilemmas.
Bullying is a major social problem experienced in many countries around the world. Bullying is intentionally causing harm to an individual, using an association that is based on power imbalance (Juvonen and Sandra 159). Bullying is usually repetitive and persistent. However, in some unique case, a single act of bullying can have continued or permanent effect on a victim. Studies show that every two children between the age of 8 and 16 are being bullied in schools (StopBullying, 2013). A school is a place where all the kids learn how to behave, respect one another and also a place where they should feel safe. Unfortunately, we have a problem in our school of bullying that needs to be acknowledged. There is a high prevalence rate, and yet in some countries, the rates are higher (Juvonen and Sandra 159). Bullying has various detrimental psychological impacts. Apart from immediate health effects, bullying also leads to cases of depressions, lowered self-esteem and anxiety, even after the victim grows up. Some scholars have linked bullying to truancy, suicidal thoughts as well as eating disorders (Juvonen and Sandra 161). This paper discusses a solution of bullying and proposes various techniques of addressing the problem.
Bullying is a growing concern in a society where status and exercising power over another human being are increasingly important in developing one’s social circles. Dan Olweus (Norwegian researcher and founder of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program) defines it as an “aggressive behaviour that is intentional and that involves an imbalance of power. Most often, it is repeated over time” (Violencepreventionworks.org). School victimization is an especially delicate matter that has only really been in the public eye for the past half century, as more and more researchers and psychologists pointed out its short- and long-term negative effects on targeted individuals. It has since been widely investigated and numerous programs have been developed in an effort to address and prevent the many forms of bullying that exist today. The negative effects of such an abusive behaviour are various and can greatly differ from individual to individual. However, there are three main consequences that can be associated with school bullying, which are: school avoidance, depression/anxiety and even suicidal attempts.
In group counseling a group leader needs to continually make decision, thus there are ethical considerations that need to be taken into account. Establishing the group’s procedures and guidelines is very important. Ethics are an important component of the group process, “possession of ethical and legal knowledge, technical skills, and personal qualities predisposing him or her to strive to achieve moral excellence in his or her group psychotherapy practice” (Corey, Corey, & Corey, 2010, p. 71). A big part of effective group work is confidentially, because this helps group members to feel comfortable and to discuss their problems.
Choose an aspect of the law and discuss this in relation to the role of the nurse.
Bullying humiliates and chips away at a teen’s self-esteem frequently leading to teen suicide. Scientist have proven that there is a connection between bullying and suicide.(Dickinson)“explains that bullied victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to have suicidal thoughts and actions” and teens that had tried to commit suicide but survived were asked why they tired suicide. A good majority of these teens said they were bullied and they had enough of it.(Suicidal Beats)
Bullying is an issue that has been around for decades and is something that can affect everyone, no matter what his or her age is. Even though bullying has changed over the years from being physical abuse and harassment that happens on the playgrounds of schoolyards to tormenting over the Internet. The same groups are still affected namely adolescents. Statistically about 30 percent of all teenagers in the United States are bullied in one-way or another (“Teenage Bullying”).
Bullying against teens is still happening even though there are various awareness programs to try to prevent it. I want to create awareness of bullying against teens of all religions, race, and sexual orientation. Even with the various attention to bullying, the problem still persists despite the school providing awareness, students are still afraid to say anything. Societal patterns today make bullying a difficult issue to eliminate. Starting in 2007, a total of 35 states made laws to go against bullying at school. These laws consisted of a clear definition of bullying, and how schools will be required to enforce uniform standards of conduct. The reason bullying comes as such an issue to me is because I actually know friends that have been suicidal and have caused themselves harm due to being bullied every day, in school and at home.
An estimated amount of 160,000 students across the United States miss school each day due to being a victim of bullying. From a present study 29% of students involved in bullying, 14% of the children were said to be victims, 7% were bullies, and 8% were bullies and victims. The worst type of social behavior stems from bullying, and leads to complications in a student’s future. Bullying is a way of expressing aggressive behavior that is intended, and continuous that sometimes leads to physical or mental injuries. Those who are victims of bullying lack self-esteem, and become easily depressed by small objects. There are four common type of bullying: verbal, physical, relational aggression, and cyber. Females and males tend to use different