The Role of Pediatricians in Bullying Prevention (S6:E19)

Children face a myriad of social pressures, and any insecurity about being different or not fitting in socially can have detrimental effects on mental health during the most formative years of life. What makes kids individuals is something that should be celebrated, but anything that makes someone different can, unfortunately, be a target for bullying behavior.

Listen to pediatric experts discuss bullying prevention

In this episode, Daniel Flannery, PhD, and Seth Scholer, MD, join us for a discussion about bullying prevention in the primary care setting and what tools providers have for screening and assessment of bullying behavior.

Dr. Flannery is a professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention.

Dr. Scholer is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

In this episode, our experts discuss:

• Reasons for bullying behavior
• Screening options, including Bright Futures and the HEEADSSS assessment
• Questions to ask kids about bullying
• Assessing risk factors for being a victim of bullying
• The benefits of role-playing for responding to bullying
• Assessments for healthy/unhealthy parenting strategies
• The increase in cyberbullying

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