Bullying: Types, Consequences, and Prevention Strategies

Running head: BULLYING
BULLYING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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BULLYING
Bullying can be of various types such as emotional, physical, verbal, psychological
and mental (Roland & Munthe 2017). Recently Cyberbullying has become very common.
The essay aims to explore the bullying that Amanda Todd went through that ultimately forced
her to commit suicide.
In the video of Amanda Todd, it is quite evident that she went through different forms
of bullying. Two bullyings that were most evident in her case was verbal and cyberbullying.
These bullying further aggravated her problems. The verbal bullying comprised of taunting,
threatening, teasing, as well as calling her with disgusting names, whereas in cyberbullying
she was manipulated in showing off her breast to a person on the Internet who later
threatened to circulate her nude pictures on the Internet (Penney, 2016). This further led to
the manipulation of her social relations and intimidation. She became extremely depressed
and at last committed suicide. The three consequences that she had to face due to this incident
was social exclusion so much so that she was left with no friends, she became depressed and
started taking anti-depressants, and people started calling her a psycho (Penney, 2016). To
deal with these problems she with her parents went on changing cities and schools but the
situation remained the same.
Strategies that could be used by Amanda's parents and school authorities were
involved with the child to get a thorough knowledge of the problem. Another approach that
they could have used to avoid her suicide was to stop the online ventures that could have
saved her from the trauma. They could have given her more attention and time so that she
spent less time on the Internet. Two similarities between bullying cases of today and that of
high school were name-calling along with gossiping. Even in those times, students used to
gossip about her classmate or other students of the school when they came to know a
humiliating fact about someone. Name-calling was another type of bullying that was common
like today, which gave mental scars to people who had to face it. Two differences between