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Session

Room: Snønuten

Paper 1

11 Jun 2025, 14:30

Stavanger Forum

36. What Guidance Do We Have? Bullying State Laws in the US

Katherine Graves (University of Texas at Arlington)

11/06/2025, 14:30

Bullying and cyberbullying policies

Oral Paper Presentation

There is no federal law in the U.S. that directly addresses bullying. However, when bullying involves race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion, it may be considered harassment, which schools are legally required to address. In December 2010, the U.S. Department of Education created a framework highlighting key elements in state laws, policies, and regulations...

158. Supporting the Front Line: capacity building and professional support in schools

Mrs Andrea Synnøve Eikset (NORCE, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare), Mrs Hilde Brendehaug Hugaas (NORCE, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare), Mrs Sissel Kulild (NORCE, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare)

11/06/2025, 14:45

Proactive strategies and prevention of bullying and cyberbullying

Oral Paper Presentation

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is one of the most widely researched and implemented interventions designed to reduce bullying among children and youth.
This presentation outlines the professional support given by OBPP in schools, to ensure teacher and staff have knowledge, skills and attitude to cope with bullying and bullying-prevention. We will highlight the importance of...

111. Crafting and Implementing a Sustainable School Anti Bullying Policy: It Takes a Village

Neena David (Mallya Aditi International School), Ms Radhika S.D'Costa (Mallya Aditi International School)

11/06/2025, 15:00

Bullying and peer aggression in early childhood education and care

Oral Paper Presentation

Bullying in school contexts across countries is a layered and complex construct. While research on school bullying in India is scarce and influenced by its vast socio-cultural diversity; child legislation and schools are engaging with issues of fostering safe learning environments in more active ways. In this larger national narrative, we identify as a small yet culturally diverse school...

270. The transformation from a sense of urgency to a state of a safe and including community for children. During the last 5 years in the Norwegian municipality of Drangedal, the children’s learning environment as a whole and the conditions for being exposed to bullying have been in an ongoing and systematic change for the better. What did we do?

Frank Rafaelsen (UiS)

11/06/2025, 15:15

Proactive strategies and prevention of bullying and cyberbullying

Oral Paper Presentation

During 2019, 70 former and present students from the period 1970 - 2019 considered to take legal steps against the municipality because of their experiences of having been subjected to bullying. Several cases exploded in the media.

At this point politicians and school administrators sensed an urgent and radical need of change and decided to enforce a long-term school developmental project...

261. A Logic Model Approach to Abu Dhabi’s Comprehensive School Anti-Bullying Strategy

Alfan Alketbi (UOS)

11/06/2025, 15:30

Reactive strategies, implementation of interventions, and follow-up actions after bulllying or cyberbullying has occured

Oral Paper Presentation

Aim
This study presents a logic model to represent Abu Dhabi’s current anti-bullying initiatives in schools, mapping out resources, activities, and stakeholder roles to build a cohesive prevention framework.
Methodology
Using a mixed-methods approach, the model draws from a scoping review, a cross-sectional survey, 27 in-depth interviews, and three focus group discussions. The survey...