The document discusses pressures that teens face like bullying and depression and ways to cope with them. It notes that bullying is a deliberate act meant to cause harm or stress and can be physical, verbal, or social in nature. The document provides statistics on bullying, its effects, and characteristics of bullies. It recommends that students experiencing or witnessing bullying tell an adult and support the victim instead of bullying back.

1. Dealing With Teen Pressures:
Working Together To Make It
Work.

2. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• It can be very important for teens to “fit in” or at least not to “stand
on the outside”
• This pressure can influence how the teen dresses, their attitudes
and behaviors, and the activities that they engage in.
• Pressures that teens face can lead them to engage in behaviors
that may not be healthy, physically or emotionally.

3. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• Today we will examine two powerful forces
that teens sometimes face that influence their
behavior and test their coping abilities.
BULLYING and DEPRESSION.

4. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• What is bullying?
• Bullying is a multifaceted form of abuse.
• It is negative behavior meant to cause
pain or discomfort.
• It is a deliberate, conscious desire to hurt
someone else or put him or her under
stress.

5. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• Bullying is also demonstrated through
indirect actions like manipulating
friendships or purposely excluding other
children from activities.

6. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• 30% of American children are regularly
involved in bullying either as bullies or as
targets of bullies.
• 15% of those affected are severely
traumatized or distressed as a result of
encounters with bullies or bullying.

7. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• Cyber bullying or electronic bullying is a
more pervasive form or bullying.
• saturates a victim’s entire social network
• far more damaging in terms of its lasting
effects than traditional physical and verbal
bullying.

8. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
Characteristics of Children Who Bully:
• Tend to have average or above average
self esteem
• Have impulsive, hot headed personalities
• Lack of empathy
• Have difficulty conforming to rules
• Have positive attitudes toward violence

9. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• What Can Students do to Stop
Bullying?
• Say Something
• Don’t bully back! It won’t help if you act
like a bully.
• say kind words to your peer being bullied
• Be a friend.

10. Coping with Bullying and Teen
Depression
• Tell the student who is being bullied to talk
to a parent, teacher or counselor.
• Tell an adult what you saw.