In recent years bullies have found new tools because of the Internet. In the fictional movie Mean Girls the characters make up a burn-book where they write awful things in it about other classmates and pass it around the school as a way to bully and humiliate their peer. The modern-day version of this is the “burn page” made through Facebook on the Internet. In this iteration students make a Facebook page that other classmates join to disparage a peer. In 2011 sixteen-year-old Taylor Wynn and fifteen-year-old McKenzie Barker cyber stalked a classmate by creating a Facebook burn page. They put their classmate’s head on a nude prepubescent girl’s body and added comments like, “I am a member of the itty Bitty Titty Comitty” (Mandell, 2011).
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One British study claims that verbal abuse is just as harmful to a child’s self-confidence as is physical bullying (Wilson-Simmons & Wang, 2011). Dr. Stephen Joseph found that verbal abuse had an on-going impact on children’s self-esteem. His study looked at three-hundred-and-thirty-one students in England and found that forty percent of them had been bullied at one time or another and it revealed that one-third of those bullied were suffering from high levels of post-traumatic stress. In doing this literature review, this is one of the more significant things I found – that bullying leads to significant levels of PTSD in so many children. I’ve only heard of PTSD in regards to our brave military folks who come home from the battlefield and it was a shock to hear it in the context of childhood. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a frightening event or ordeal in which physical harm occurred or was threatened (Fisher, 2016). Research now clearly suggests that bullying can cause
One British study claims that verbal abuse is just as harmful to a child’s self-confidence as is physical bullying (Wilson-Simmons & Wang, 2011). Dr. Stephen Joseph found that verbal abuse had an on-going impact on children’s self-esteem. His study looked at three-hundred-and-thirty-one students in England and found that forty percent of them had been bullied at one time or another and it revealed that one-third of those bullied were suffering from high levels of post-traumatic stress. In doing this literature review, this is one of the more significant things I found – that bullying leads to significant levels of PTSD in so many children. I’ve only heard of PTSD in regards to our brave military folks who come home from the battlefield and it was a shock to hear it in the context of childhood. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a frightening event or ordeal in which physical harm occurred or was threatened (Fisher, 2016). Research now clearly suggests that bullying can cause