More Resources About Bullying

Leading the Charge: Empowering Strategies to Stop Bullying

October 28, 2025

Strategies to prevent bullying, support students, and empower educators to create safer school communities
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Mental Health Primers available

March 19, 2025

APA’s Mental Health Primers provide educators with essential tools to identify and support students experiencing trauma, sadness, and struggles related to identity, ensuring a compassionate and inclusive response.
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Individual, Collective, and Intergenerational Trauma Recovery

August 15, 2024

Traumatic incidents can be experienced directly and vicariously, and responses can be acute and long-lasting, discrete and complex.
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Cyberbullying: What is it and how can you stop it?

September 7, 2022

Explore the latest psychological science about the impact of cyberbullying and what to do if you or your child is a victim
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Big Bold Beautiful Me

September 6, 2022

Big Bold Beautiful Me is a delightful announcement of self-love, self-appreciation, self-acceptance, and self-comfort, and being 100% proud of who you are and your shape.
Dorothy Espelage, PhD

Dorothy Espelage has helped frame the national discussion of bullying in schools

July 28, 2022

Dorothy Espelage, PhD, a pioneering researcher of aggression among schoolchildren, has done foundational studies on “bullying”—distress or injury one individual or group repeatedly inflicts on others who are less powerful.
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Preventing Interpersonal Stressors at Work

February 1, 2022

Special issue of APA's Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2022. This special issue is organized into three main themes: (a) factors that stop the vicious cycle of experiencing— enacting interpersonal stressors, (b) multilevel work conditions that reduce interpersonal stressors, and (c) evidence for interventions to reduce interpersonal work stressors.
Can school-wide social and emotional learning reduce cyberbullying among adolescents?

Spotlight: Can school-wide social and emotional learning reduce cyberbullying among adolescents?

July 27, 2021

In a large-scale survey study, Chunyan Yang and colleagues used multilevel modeling to examine how components of school-wide social and emotional learning influenced adolescents’ cyberbullying experience.
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Supporting efforts to address learning loss and ensure positive school environments

February 24, 2021

APA supports legislation to mitigate education and learning loss in all students, as schools work to address the impacts of COVID-19.
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Students experiencing bullying

February 18, 2021

Teachers are critical contributors to promoting safe school interactions and promoting positive relationships