of neighborhood safety. However, a strong contributor to reduced frequency of bullying behavior was the presence of one or more positive adult role models.
All of the findings of the study have applications to the school counseling situation. In this regard, Espelage, Bosworth and Simon (2000) state that counseling offices in most schools seldom conceptualize bullying in the same manner as was done in their study, namely as a range of behaviors falling along a continuum of increasing aggressiveness. Rather, the focus in these schools has been on the identification of students who are or who are n
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