Bullying and Mental Health: Impact and Interventions
Duration: 30 mins
DOI: 10.13056/acamh.21511
Description
For this podcast, we are joined by Dr. Sînziana Oncioiu, Professor Lucy Bowes and Carolina Guzman Holst to discuss bullying in children and adolescents. Sînziana, Lucy, and Carolina are all members of the Oxford lab of Risk and Resilience, Genes and Environment, known as the oRANGE Lab, at the University of Oxford.
Learning Objectives
1. Explanation of the main focus of the oRANGE Lab and providing insight into the definition of bullying.
2. Discussion on how prevalent bulling is, and the various roles that young people take on when bullying occurs, and why it is important to understand them.
3. What is known about the link between bullying and mental health, how the relationship between bullying victimisation and mental health played out during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
4. What makes some young people and children more likely to be targets for bullies as well as what factors make some people more likely to be perpetrators.
5. Insight into the effectiveness of anti-bullying interventions and their impact on mental health, plus explores whether the current interventions are enough to support those most at risk.
6. Examples and comments on what risk and protective factors have been identified by their research that help determine how a young person will fare if they’ve been bullied.
7. How social norms and other systemic factors influence the prevalence rates of bullying, and what the implications are of their findings for teachers and other people in education, and also for CAMH professionals.
