Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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6 Technology-Based Interventions
6 Technology-Based Interventions
Pages 57-64
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Bullying is an age-old behavior, noted Fred Rivara of the University of Washington School of Medicine in his opening remarks at the workshop. But the rise of social media and the increasing prevalence of technologies in children's lives may present new opportunities to ameliorate bullying.
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[But] they may have an online world that is very supportive." Adults may perceive youth as more technically proficient and may therefore struggle to intervene or mediate their use of information and communications technologies, Mishna said, but many youth lack the critical thinking and decision-making skills necessary for always using these technologies safely and appropriately.
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When young people are asked whether they have been cyberbullied, they often say no, but then they describe incidents they have experienced that most adults would indeed consider cyberbullying; instead of "bullying" or "cyberbullying," the victims tend to describe these experiences by other names, such as "drama" or "trash talk." Even the idea of an aggressor and a victim in cyberbullying is often not clear, Mishna said, because the exchanges are often back and forth. Also, over time, young people have become desensitized to the kinds of things they may be pressured to do, such as sending photographs of themselves electronically to others, she said.
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Sites designed to help youth with certain issues, such as depression, have been found to be moderately effective, with interactive sites appearing to be the most promising approach, Mishna said. In addition, research has shown that evidence-informed, school-based interventions using technology as a learning tool may be somewhat efficacious in increasing student knowledge.
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Among sexually active youth, those who had sex in the past 3 months and who received the intervention plus booster were much less likely to report unprotected sex than youth in the control and intervention-only groups. These data, Ybarra said, "show that we can move the needle not just in terms of attitudes, but also in terms of self-reported behavior." Another example was a text-messaging smoking cessation program called StopMySmoking, which was tested in Ankara, Turkey, and in the United States.
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In the United States, Ybarra's group looked at 150 young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who were randomly assigned either to the intervention group or to an attention-matched control group whose members received text messages at the same rate as the intervention group, but the messages were about fitness and sleep rather than about quitting smoking. Three months after the designated quit day, 40 percent of the intervention group had quit, versus 30 percent of the control group (Ybarra et al., 2013b)
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"We want to open up the conversation and not close it." That also means providing information to adults so that they neither overreact nor minimize the problem. In Canada, Mishna said, universities are forming taskforces with students and professors to identify the issues involving in bullying.
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