Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: tal health difficulties among victims of bullying.Animal models may provide useful insights, because they allow for a better control of the bullying experience and offer an opportunity to explore biological mechanisms in more depth.For example, an experiment on mice demonstrated the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway to explain social aversion among mice exposed to repeated aggression 10 .Tackling bullying behaviors could not only reduce children's and adolescents' mental health symptoms but also prevent psychiatric and socio-economic difficulties in adulthood.Anti-bullying programs show promise in controlling bullying behaviors 11 .However, the chances of eradicating bullying completely are minimal and we need to acknowledge that, despite such programs, a considerable proportion of young people will not escape this form of abuse.Intervention efforts should therefore also focus on limiting distress among young victims and possibly, by the same token, preventing longlasting difficulties in later life.A new innovative strategy could aim at preventing children from becoming the targets of bully-ing in the first place.Such a public health approach might be a more effective way to reduce the bullying-related burden.
Source: World Psychiatry
DOI: 10.1002/wps.20396
Authors: Maria A. Oquendo, Joel A. Bernanke
Institutions: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2581555411