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The committee was charged to undertake a study of what is known and what needs to be known to reduce bullying behavior and its consequences and to report on the on the state of the science on the biological and psychosocial consequences of peer victimization and the risk and protective factors that either increase or decrease peer victimization behavior and consequences.
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Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice
Consensus Study Report
·2016
Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have "asked for" this type of treatment, or deserved it. Sometimes, even the child who is bullied begins to internalize this idea. For many years, there...
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