Bully Blocking

by Evelyn M. Field

This confidence-boosting book aims to help children overcome the damaging effects of teasing and bullying, and to develop practical skills and attitudes to improve their self-esteem and quality of life.This revised edition of Bully Blocking (originally published under the title Bully Busting) is based on Evelyn Field's 'Secrets of relating', a six-step model that has proved highly successful in her counselling work with young people. The first part of the book helps parents understand what happens when their children are bullied and provides useful approaches for changing the attitude of children who may feel there is no hope. The second part provides a programme of activities with an emphasis on fun, helping children to understand their feelings and develop effective methods of counteracting bullying situations, including improving self-esteem, building support networks and communicating confidently.This book will be an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, educators and counsellors working with children at risk of or experiencing bullying.

248 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2007

Reviews

[Rachel Martin]

Not a bad book - some good things in it that I'm actually using with the kids I work with. However, I have huge issues with the author's suggestion that one way of releasing bad feelings is to get a plain calico doll, then take out your feelings on it by drawing on it, hitting it, stabbing or burning it and pretending it's the bully!!! Surely this is some kind of mistake...I am pretty sure research found that this is not effective, and I believe this kind of coping strategy just increases the likelihood that the cycle will continue, as in the bullied eventually becomes a bully...

[Sean Benson]

I was unable to finish this book. What i did read ranged from disturbing to interesting to "I call bullshit". I may finish it in the future but everything must be taken with a grain of salt.