Case Analysis: Bullying

Bullying
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Introduction
The term bullying refers to continuous psychological, verbal, or physical hostile behavior of people practiced either directly or indirectly towards inferior powerful individuals with an intension of causing harm and fear to them. There are various reasons that results to bullying. For instance, some individuals involves in the practice in order to establish superiority over other people while other involve in bullying to discriminate others based on race or ethnic differences. Bullying has been experienced within various localities for centauries and has resulted to great harms to the victims. For instance, physical bullying has resulted to injury or even death of the victims; similarly, it has also resulted to rejection of persons within their societies and mental illness among other effects. Most of the people that have high risks of bullying are children especially while in school. Some of the sings of child bullying include depression sings, poor performance, fear when speaking with other children, fear of going to school and becoming withdrawn.
Causes and Effects of Child Bullying Based on Theoretical Frameworks
Causes of Child Bullying
Different children practice different form of bullying based on different objective of the practice. Some of the common forms of bullying practices that children use include verbal bullying practice through jokes or abuse, violence bullying through threats, sexual harassment, through homophobia, through ethnic and racial discrimination and bullying through cyber bullying via internet services or use of mobile phones. Therefore, one of the factors that lead to child bullying is based on cultural practices. Children who come from societies where power and other forms of leadership titles are gained through bullying will automatically practice bullying especially in schools so as to gain power and leadership over other children. These children will ensure they involve in practices that create fear among other children and be able to clinch leadership because failure to elect them leaders would result to more bullying.
Apart from cultural practices, another factor that contributes to child bullying is institutional factors. Children who grow and stay in environments where bullying is the order of the day, will develop such character within them and practice them to other children be it in school, homes or at their workplace when they grow up. Therefore, these children involves in bullying practices because they learn them from their families and societies. Social issues are another grate factor the results to the adoption of bullying practices among many children. For instance, children who got social recognition based on negative practices and behaviors as compared to positive behaviors may develop believes that they are for the wrong doing and may easily involve in bullying practices. Consequently, when these children join schools, they will continue with wrong doing for their recognition resulting to bullying of other children. Other children who developed jealousy as part of their recognition will practice jealousy to other children, which in the process will be a form of bullying to the affected children.
Family issues are also considered as major factors that contribute to increase rate of child bullying. For instance, families that do not practice love and good relationship among them always develop some forms of hatred which may be developed by their children. As a result, these children may practice hatred to their colleagues in schools and will be seen as bullying practices by teachers and school children. Similarly, another relating factor contributed through family is child negligent by the parents and caretakers. Most of the children lack proper teaching and guidance from their parents on their undertaking. Therefore, most children develop bad behaviors but are not corrected by their parents. Due to lack of monitoring, these children continue with such practices when they join other children at school or at home when playing and interacting with other children. As a result, they end-up bullying their colleagues, a scenario that would have been easily avoided through proper parental care.
Bully`s individual history also triggers the practice of bullying. In normal occurrence, children who go through social rejection at their tender age are likely to impose such practices to other children within their environment. L...