SCHOOL COUNSELORS IN THE ROLE OF REDUCING BULLYING           2676 WORDS

School counselors continue to be leaders in developing classroom guidance lessons that identify ways to recognize types of bullying and strategies to reduce bullying in schools. This paper will define bullying, the history of bulling, and discuss the five types of bullying that school counselor’s encounter daily. The impact of youth bullying will also be presented. I will then discuss the myths surrounding bullying, emphasize the counselors role in bullying, and strategies to reduce bullying behavior. The biblical perspective on bullying will be analysis in the paper. The function and ethics of a counselor that counsels people affected by or using bullying behavior will be discussed. To conclude the paper I will give my own personal perspective on bullying, how it affective my childhood, and how it impacts life today.

According to Bauman (2008) bullying is defined as a subset of aggression with three components: (a) intent to harm, (b) repetition, and (c) a power imbalance between the bulling and the target or victim. Bullying is distinguished from conflict by unequal power between the persons involved. Bullying has been with us as long as recorded history. If you read a history book about any conflict or