Reference List for LD 564
Books, Articles
Aronson, E. (2000). Nobody left to hate: Teaching compassion after Columbine. New York Owl Books.
Baumeister, R. F. (2001). "Violent pride: Do people turn violent because of self-hate, or self-love?" Scientific American, 284(4), 96-101.
Baumeister, R. F., Bushman, B. J., & Campbell, W. K. (2000). "Self-esteem, narcissism, and aggression: Does violence result from low self-esteem or threatened egotism?" Current Directions in Psychological Science, 9, 26-29.
Baumeister, R. F., Twenge, J. M., & Nuss, C. (2002). "Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: Anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 817-827.
Bluestein, J. (2003) "What’s wrong with I-messages?" http://www.janebluestein.com/articles/whatswrong.html
Brown, L.M. 1998. Raising their voices: The politics of girls’ anger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. An exploration of social class and gender differences between two groups of central Maine girls after video-taping their school-based group discussions over the course of a year. Examines differences in the ways the girls understand and resolve conflict, define femininity, and experience school.
Brown, Lyn M. (2003) Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls; New York University Press. An analysis of interviews with 421 girls from elementary through high school, diverse with respect to race and class. Examines girl fighting and bullying behavior among girls and scrutinizes the way our culture reinforces meanness in girls through media and the perpetuation of gendered stereotypes in school and society.
Build Respect, Stop Bullying Program; Channing Bete Company; educational material
Chasnoff, D. (2003) "Let’s Get Real" http://www.womedia.org/letsgetreal.htm
Craig, W., & Pepler, D. (2000) "Observations of Bullying in the Playground and in the Classroom School." Psychology International 21(1) pp22-37, Feb. 2000.
Craig, W., & Pepler, D. (2000). "Making a difference in bullying." LaMarsh Research Programme, Report Series, Report # 60. LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution. York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.melissainstitute.org/documents/MakingADifference.pdf
Davis, Stan. (2005) Schools Where Everyone Belongs; Research Press 2005
Dellasega, C. & Nixon, C. 2003. Girl Wars: Twelve Strategies That will End Female Bullying. Simon & Schuster. Parenting book. Addresses relational aggression. Offers tips for helping those involved.
Friedman, S. (1996). Peacemaking Skills for Little Kids. Miami, FL; Peace Education Foundation, Inc. (can be ordered at http://www.peaceeducation.com/curricula/)
Garbarino, J. & DeLara, E. (2002). And words can hurt forever. New York: Free Press.
Huesmann, L. R., Moise-Titus, J., Podolski, C. & Eron, L. D. (2003). "Longitudinal relations between children’s exposure to TV violence and their aggressive and violent behavior in young adulthood": 1977 – 1992. Developmental Psychology, 39(2), 201-21.
Juvonen, J., Graham, S., Schuster, M. (2003, December). "Bullying among young adolescents: The strong, the weak, and the troubled." Pediatrics, 112: 1231-1237.
Lamb, S. 2002. "The Secret Lives of Girls: What Girls Really Do--Sex Aggression, and Their Guilt." New York: The Free Press. Interviews with adult women and girls about sex and aggression. The only book that takes a broader cultural look at the way these issues are connected for girls. Deals with both the costs and the power girls seek when they are aggressive.
Landry, Deb. Sticks, Stones and Stumped; Illustrated children’s book, Bryson Taylor Publishing; 2005. www.brysontaylorpublishing.com
Landry, Deb. 2006 Sticks, Stones and Stumped: children’s interactive play and teachers workbook, grades K-5, Bryson Taylor Publishing. www.brysontaylorpublishing.com
Ludwig, T. (2003). My secret bully. Portland, OR : Riverwood Press.
Moss, Peggy; Say Something; children’s book, Tilbury Press; 2004
Nansel, T.R., Overpeck, M., Pilla, R.S., Ruan, W. J., Simons-Morton, B., Scheidt, P. (2001). "Bullying behaviors among US youth: Prevalence and association with psychosocial adjustment." The Journal of the American Medical Association, 285, 2094-2100.
National Association of School Psychologists. (2002) "Bullying prevention: what schools and parents can do." National Association of School Psychologists, Bethesda, MD. http://www.naspcenter.org/resourcekit/bullying_new_rk.html
Newman, Katherine S. Rampage: the Social Roots of School Shootings. New York: Basic Books, 2004.
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (2001), "School wide prevention of bullying", http://www.nwrel.org/request/dec01/bullying.pdf
Rigby, K. (2000). "Effects of peer victimization in schools and perceived social support on adolescent well-being." Journal of Adolescence, 23(1), 57-68
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, and Howard R. Spivak. Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. Deals with the relationship between relational and physical aggression and addresses what parents, schools, and communities can do.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy. San Diego: Harvest Books, 2004. Collection of poems, songs, confessions, and essays.
Stein, A. (2002). "Bullies: Ignore them and they won’t go away." University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, The Link. University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development. Vol. 18, No. 2 http://education.umn.edu/alum/link/2002Winter/bullies.html
Twemlow, S.W, Fonagy, P., Sacco, F, Gies, M., Evans, R., and Ewbank, R. "Creating a peaceful school learning environment: the impact of an antibullying program on educational attainment in elementary schools." Med Sci Monit. 2005 Jul;11(7):CR317-25. Epub 2005 Jun 29
Wiseman, R. 2002. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter to Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence. New York: Crown Publishers. Discusses primarily relational aggression among girls. (In spite of some reviews, this is not a well-researched book; primarily anecdotal).
Selected Reports, Journal Articles, Book Chapters
Brown, L.M., Chesney-Lind, M., & Stein, N. 2004. "Patriarchy matters: Toward a gendered theory of teen violence and victimization." Wellesley Centers for Women Working Paper No, 417). Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. (in press) Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal.
Brown, L.M. & Chesney-Lind, M. 2005. Growing Up Mean: Covert Aggression and the Policing of Girlhood. In Gwynedd Lloyd (Ed.), Problem girls: Understanding and supporting troubled and troublesome girls and young women. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Eder, D. 1985. The cycle of popularity: Interpersonal relations among female adolescents.
Kimmel, M. (February 5, 2002). Adolescent masculinity, homophobia and violence: Some tentative hypotheses about school shootings. Paper presented at the Seminar on Gender and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Merten, D. 1997. "The meaning of meanness: Popularity, competition, and conflict among junior high school girls." Sociology of Education, 70, July: 175-191.
Stein, N. 1995. "Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools: The Public Performance of Gendered Violence." Harvard Educational Review, 65(2), 145-162.
Stein, N. 2001. "Sexual Harassment Meets Zero-Tolerance: Life in K-12 Schools." In Ayers, Dohrn & Ayers (Eds.), Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment. A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators and Citizens New York: New Press
Curricular materials
Brown, L.M. & Madden, M. 2005. From Adversaries to Allies: A Curriculum for Change. A middle school level curriculum that takes a positive youth development approach to girlfighting-prevention by helping girls unpack and respond constructively to cultural messages and stereotypes that divide them. Distributed by Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Box 821, Waterville, ME 04901 or www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org
Allies in Action: Building Healthy Relationships Between Girls. An evidence-based relational aggression prevention program that engages girls as change agents, providing them with a vocabulary to describe their relationships, a critical lens to analyze cultural forces shaping their relationships, and skills to effectively navigate conflict and articulate boundaries. Distributed by Girls’ Initiative Network, Portland Oregon.
Stein, N. 1996. Bullyproof: A Teacher’s Guide on Teasing and Bullying for Use with Fourth and Fifth Grade Students. Evaluated in a three-year project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Stein, Ed.D., Nan, and Lisa Sjorstom, Ed.D. Flirting or Hurting? a Teacher’s Guide on Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment in Schools for Grades 6 Through 12. Wellesley Centers for Women. 1994.
Stein, N. 1999. Gender Violence/Gender Justice: an Interdisciplinary Teaching Guide for Teachers of English, Literature, Social Studies, Psychology, Health, Peer Counseling, and Family and Consumer Sciences (grades 7-12) (1999) All Stein materials distributed by Wellesley Centers for Women Publications Office, Wellesley College.
Websites, DVD/Curriculum, On-line Resources
Website reference: www.cdtp.org/whatwedo.htm, Cross Disciplinary Training Program
Website reference: http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/courses.htm SAMHSA Training
Website reference: www.medscimonit.com/pub/vol_11/no_7/6440.pdf
Website reference on teacher-parents communication: http://www.bclsolutions.com/elearning.html#bus
Website reference: http://www.keystosaferschools.com
Newsletter website reference: www.bullypoliceusa.org. Website dedicated to passing legislation in every State.
Website reference: www.stopbullyingworld.com
Ugly Ducklings Community Action Kit and Documentary Film can be found at Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Inc.: www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org. The documentary film focuses on the difficult issues raised in the award-winning play Ugly Ducklings and explores the immediate realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning (LGBTQ) youth seeking asylum from the oppression of bias-based harassment in our communities and schools. The Community Action Kit is designed to educate both adults and youth about bias-based harassment and to support families, schools, and communities, who wish to openly support LGBTQ youth by initiating honest dialogue and creating safe and supportive environments. This Kit includes educational materials, tools, and resources for youth, parents/guardians, teachers, mental health providers, clergy, and other adults caring for or working with LGBTQ youth.
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Inc.: www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org. The Hardy Girls website offers a lot of great information for teens, parents, counselors, teachers and anyone else who cares about girls and their health. Specifically addresses girls aggression and girlfighting.
Daughters.com: www.daughters.com Daughters is a newsletter published for parents of daughters. Daughters’ newsletter is published by the national education and advocacy nonprofit, Dads and Daughters. Since 1999, DADs has provided tools to strengthen parent-daughter relationships and to transform the pervasive messages that value daughters more for how they look than who they are.
4Girls.gov: www.4girls.gov The mission of the www.4girls.gov web site, developed by the Office on Women’s Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, is to promote healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
The Gender Project: www.umaine.edu/umext/genderproject. The Gender Project through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Office is Turning Beauty Inside Out. Check out their website for great resources and ideas on how we can change the culture for girls’ and boys’ healthy development.
Wellesley Centers for Research on Women, Project on Teasing and Bullying: http://www.wcwonline.org/bullying/index.html
Stop Hazing: http://www.stophazing.org/index.html A site designed to educate about and eliminate hazing.
The Empower Program: http://www.empowered.org A national, nonprofit educational organization designed to empower young people and adults to create safe schools and communities by providing effective prevention strategies to address bullying and other forms of peer aggression.
The Ophelia Project: http://www.opheliaproject.org. Focuses primarily on girls and relational aggression.
Helping Kids Thrive: www.helpingkidsthrive.org Offers trainings, talks, and curricula on a host of topics, including bullying prevention, aimed at bringing out the best in kids of all ages.
McEvoy, Alan; 2005; Wittenberg University; PDF file: teachers who bully students. http://www.stopbullyingnow.com/teachers%20who%20bully%20students%20McEvoy.pdf
Health in Action Series: Bullying in the School Community. American School Health Association, May/June 2005. Practical tips for dealing with bullying.
What Do We Know About Bullying Among School Children? an article by Dr. Susan Limber. http://www.nasbhc.org/TAT/TATCorner/BehavioralHealth/Bullying_Prevention.htm
Making a Difference in bullying-by Wendy Craig and Debra Pepler from the Canadian pioneers of bullying prevention research. http://www.melissainstitute.org/documents/MakingADifference.pdf
Bullying at School (Blackwell Publishers, 1993, ISBN #0-631-19241-7) Bullying Prevention program
