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Relational Aggression

Source 1. Hopehouseonline.org The definition of relational aggression is manipulation calculated to hurt or control her relationships with others. Examples include: purposely ignoring or excluding other girls and spreading rumors.

Source 2. RelationalAggression.com "Just The Basics" More introduction to RA. It is emotional and psychological violence. Injures victim by damaging others opinions of, and relationships to her.Relies on social networking to spread gossip, rumors, and lies. Once something exists in cyberspace, it never goes away.

Source 3. Bullying: Relational Aggression by Healther Turner Where bullying happens, and the profile of the bully. Bullying happens mostly in recess, walk or bus ride home, cafeterias, locker rooms, hallways, and restrooms. The aggressor is a social butterfly, populat, high self-esteem. She is the master of manipulation and to adults, the student seems innocent and has a good reputation. She is difficult to identify. A gap in this is what she might physically look like.

Source 4. SageJournals "The Journal of Early Adolescence" In contrast to physical aggression, RA involves interpersonally manipulative behaviors. Creating a school environment that guarantees physical safety and psychological security of students is an important task to promote improvement. This article was very broad. I jumped around in it, so parts of it will be spread out throughout the project.

Source 5. Bullies In Disguise by Suzanne Marie Fanger on scholastic.com Bullying is commonly witnessed in both genders as young as 3. Research shows that the victim role becomes stabilized by the time the child is 5. Bullies may also continue their behavior because they developed habits of friendship, interaction and fighting that are hard to break. This information will lead into my point saying that it starts this young and will never go away unless something is done to prevent it.

Source 6.How Girls Bully: the covert tactics used when girls bully Most girls go along with the mean group in fear or being the next victim. It seems easier to do nothing than the right thing. Kids who quietly go along with the bully add power to the bully as it gives an illusion to the victim that the bully has peer support. The point to this is that the bully will never go down unless people stand up to her.

Source 7. Relational Aggression: Identifying and Intervening in Relational Aggression SageJournals To identify a victim: identify warning signs. These may include being absent and chronic somatic complaints. To prepare to deal with bullying: educate staff and students about it. Investigate bullying, promote a safe environment, take reports seriously, report incidents to appropriate school personnel, and form "friendship groups" or other support systems for victims. A brochure saying what teachers should do and how to prepare would really help lead to my point in preventing and a Solution.

Source 8. Relational Aggression: Identifying and Intervening in Relational Aggression SageJournals To be caring and bully free a school must: be characterized by warmth and positive involvement from interested adults, enforce clear and firm limitations on unacceptable behavior, apply discipline when rules are violated, and have adults acting as primary authority figures using firm but fair leadership. A school board policy should be set. There are no gaps in this information. This information will be included in the brochure.

Source 9. This source explained what to do to help the victim, bully and bystander, the three main characters in a bullying conflict. To help the bully: involve them in a helping activity and give consequences To help the victim: Don't rescue them, empower them To help the bystander: compliment student fro having courage to tell. Help them show support to the victim. This information will be in a support web page.

Source 10.Bullies in Disguise by Suzanne M. Fanger scholastic.com She relates the movie, "Mean GIrls" and real life bullying. The movie is a fictional comedy, but has a large degree of truth in groups' cold blooded behavior. In the movie, two cliques of teenage girls become socially aggressive towards each other in school. I want to show a clip of the movie, or the trailer and I could reenact, make my own movie with a different scenario or I could write a review on the movie and relate it to current problems in girl bullying.