Implementation and evaluation of the Youth Police Academy school bullying prevention program in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 101881
Author(s):  
You-Kyung Han ◽  
Aeri Song ◽  
Su Jung Um
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Police Academy

scholarly journals The Potential of Anti-Bullying Efforts to Prevent Academic Failure and Youth Crime. A Case Using the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolai Topstad Borgen ◽  
Dan Olweus ◽  
Lars Johannessen Kirkebøen ◽  
Kyrre Breivik ◽  
Mona Elin Solberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
School Level ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program ◽  
Bullying Programs

AbstractThe effectiveness of bullying prevention programs has led to expectations that these programs could have effects beyond their primary goals. By reducing the number of victims and perpetrators and the harm experienced by those affected, programs may have longer-term effects on individual school performance and prevent crime. In this paper, we use Norwegian register data to study the long-term impact of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) on academic performance, high school dropout, and youth crime for the average student, which we call population-level effects. The OBPP program is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful programs reducing school-level bullying; yet, using a difference-in-difference design, no statistically significant population-level effects of the OBPP were found on any of the long-term outcomes in this study. When studied at the population level, as in the current project, the base rate prevalence of bullying is a major explanatory factor for these results. Earlier studies have shown that OBPP reduces bullying prevalence by 30–50%. This decrease translates into absolute reductions in bullying victimization and perpetration at the population level of “only” four and two percentage points, respectively. Our results suggest the average causal effects of school bullying involvement are too small to translate this reduction in bullying into a sizeable population-level impact on students’ long-term outcomes. However, a limited potential of anti-bullying programs to prevent population-level adversity can very well be compatible with substantial program effects for individual bullies and victims. Further, our results do not speak to the main objective of anti-bullying programs of limiting childhood abuse and safeguarding children’s human rights.

scholarly journals The application of a bullying prevention program in school - characteristics of effective programs

2020 ◽  
pp. 407-418
Author(s):  
Marija Markovic ◽  
Zorica Stanisavlјevic-Petrovic ◽  
Anastasija Mamutovic
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
School Environment ◽  
School Context ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
General Goals ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Effective Programs

The problem of bullying represents a priority institutional, as well as wider social problem, and it needs to be addressed persistently and systematically, bearing in mind the long-term negative consequences that it leaves on all involved actors. In the school environment the most commonly applied level of prevention is universal, i.e. primary prevention. The study of the effectiveness of the application of various bullying prevention programs shows that it is possible to identify certain characteristics of effective programs. The given characteristics are systematized in terms of those related to the program itself, the specifics of the school staff and the teaching staff. In order for the school bullying prevention program to give valid results, it is necessary to focus on two general goals: creating a safe and supportive school environment - through changes at different levels of school functioning in order to create an supportive school climate, as well as the application of school rules against bullying; and the development of individual interpersonal competences among students - through the application of appropriate measures and activities at the individual or group level, aimed at the development of interpersonal skills. The process of designing school bullying prevention program should be based on the analysis and understanding of the specifics and needs of the existing school context.

scholarly journals School-based interventions to address bullying

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
School Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
School Based Interventions ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Bullying Interventions ◽  
Meta Analyses

Following some background studies on the nature of school bullying, its prevalence, and the negative consequences it can have, this article reviews the history of anti-bullying interventions over the last 30 years. It considers several major programmes in detail, such as the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, KiVa, Steps to Respect, and Friendly Schools. The nature and evaluation of the interventions is discussed, followed by a review of meta-analyses of the programmes effectiveness. Issues considered are the effect at different ages; components of interventions; work with peers; disciplinary methods, non-punitive and restorative approaches; challenges regarding cyberbullying; the role of parents; the role of teachers and teacher training; set menu versus à la carte approaches; sustainability of interventions and societal context. Conclusions show that interventions have had some success, with traditional bullying. However, further progress is needed in strengthening theoretical underpinnings to interventions, and in tackling cyberbullying.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP)

2021 ◽  
pp. 410-429
Author(s):  
Dan Olweus ◽  
Susan P. Limber ◽  
Jane Riese ◽  
Jan Urbanski ◽  
Mona E. Solberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prevention Program ◽  
Bullying Prevention ◽  
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
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