SOCW 6200: Human Behavior and the Social Environment I Discussion 1: Moral Development Theory and Bullying Bullying is not a new phenomenon, but social media and communication technologies have introduced a breadth and depth to which public shaming, targeted taunting, and bullying have manifested. For this Discussion, consider how bullying has changed and how it has remained the same in light of modern technology. Post an explanation of one moral development theory and its connection to the act of bullying. Be sure to frame your explanation within the context of cyber and other bullying that persists in social media and communication technologies used by adolescents. Also explain how bullying has changed and how it has remained the same in light of modern technology. Please use the Learning Resources to support your answer. Discussion 2: Bullying: Cycle of Events Bearing witness to trauma has its own set of consequences. Watching repeated episodes of bullying can evoke strong emotional and behavioral responses from an adolescent. During the impressionable stage of social development in adolescents, these experiences can contribute to a change in perception about the ways people should and do treat each other. Furthermore, ongoing exposure to this behavior can jeopardize an adolescent’s healthy social development. For this Discussion, consider how the act of bullying experienced by one adolescent may change the experience of another who witnesses it. Post a scenario that illustrates how bullying experienced by one adolescent may change the experience of another who witnesses it. Then address the availability of any social work intervention, skill, or practice that might change this cycle of events. Please use the Learning Resources to support your answer. Please follow the rubric SOCW_6200_Week7_Discussion Rubric Responsiveness to Directions 9.45 (27%) - 10.5 (30%) Discussion posting fully addresses all instruction prompts, including responding to the required number of peer posts. Discussion Posting Content 9.45 (27%) - 10.5 (30%) Discussion posting demonstrates an excellent understanding of all of the concepts and key points presented in the text(s) and Learning Resources. Posting provides significant detail including multiple relevant examples, evidence from the readings and other scholarly sources, and discerning ideas. Peer Feedback and Interaction 7.88 (22.5%) - 8.75 (25%) The feedback postings and responses to questions are excellent and fully contribute to the quality of interaction by offering constructive critique, suggestions, in-depth questions, additional resources, and stimulating thoughts and/or probes. Writing 4.72 (13.5%) - 5.25 (15%) Postings are well organized, use scholarly tone, contain original writing and proper paraphrasing, follow APA style, contain very few or no writing and/or spelling errors, and are fully consistent with graduate level writing style. Required Readings Here is the link to all.

1. SOCW 6200: Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
Discussion 1: Moral Development Theory and Bullying
Bullying is not a new phenomenon, but social media and
communication technologies have introduced a breadth and
depth to which public shaming, targeted taunting, and bullying
have manifested. For this Discussion, consider how bullying has
changed and how it has remained the same in light of modern
technology.
Post
an explanation of one moral development theory and its
connection to the act of bullying. Be sure to frame your
explanation within the context of cyber and other bullying that
persists in social media and communication technologies used
by adolescents. Also explain how bullying has changed and how
it has remained the same in light of modern technology. Please
use the Learning Resources to support your answer.
Discussion 2: Bullying: Cycle of Events
Bearing witness to trauma has its own set of consequences.
Watching repeated episodes of bullying can evoke strong
emotional and behavioral responses from an adolescent. During
the impressionable stage of social development in adolescents,
these experiences can contribute to a change in perception about
the ways people should and do treat each other. Furthermore,
ongoing exposure to this behavior can jeopardize an
adolescent’s healthy social development. For this Discussion,
consider how the act of bullying experienced by one adolescent
may change the experience of another who witnesses it.

2. Post
a scenario that illustrates how bullying experienced by one
adolescent may change the experience of another who witnesses
it. Then address the availability of any social work intervention,
skill, or practice that might change this cycle of events. Please
use the Learning Resources to support your answer.
Please follow the rubric
SOCW_6200_Week7_Discussion Rubric
Responsiveness to Directions
9.45 (27%) - 10.5 (30%)
Discussion posting fully addresses all instruction prompts,
including responding to the required number of peer posts.
Discussion Posting Content
9.45 (27%) - 10.5 (30%)
Discussion posting demonstrates an excellent understanding of
all of the concepts and key points presented in the text(s) and
Learning Resources. Posting provides significant detail
including multiple relevant examples, evidence from the
readings and other scholarly sources, and discerning ideas.
Peer Feedback and Interaction
7.88 (22.5%) - 8.75 (25%)
The feedback postings and responses to questions are excellent
and fully contribute to the quality of interaction by offering
constructive critique, suggestions, in-depth questions,
additional resources, and stimulating thoughts and/or probes.

3. Writing
4.72 (13.5%) - 5.25 (15%)
Postings are well organized, use scholarly tone, contain original
writing and proper paraphrasing, follow APA style, contain very
few or no writing and/or spelling errors, and are fully consistent
with graduate level writing style.
Required Readings
Here is the link to all 3 article
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MquOHEpLyEnfknPUw
POEF-J_buYMPgO2?usp=sharing
Benavides, L. E. (2014). Spiritual journey from childhood to
adolescence: Pathways to strength and healing.
Journal Of Religion & Spirituality In Social Work, 33
(3/4), 201–217. doi:10.1080/15426432.2014.930628
Brown, C. F., Demaray, M. K., Tennant, J. E., & Jenkins, L. N.
(2017). Cyber victimization in high school: Measurement,
overlap with face-to-face victimization, and associations with
social-emotional outcomes.
School Psychology Review, 46
(3), 288–303. doi:10.17105/SPR-2016-0004.V46-3.
Jenkins, L. N., Demaray, M. K., & Tennant, J. (2017). Social,
emotional, and cognitive factors associated with bullying.
School Psychology Review, 46
(1), 42–64.
Zastrow, C. H., Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hessenauer, S. L.
(2019).

4. Understanding human behavior and the social environment
(11th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 8, “Social Development in Adolescence” (pp. 361-
409)
Chapter 8
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Behavior and the Social Environment
of Laura’s, She detests going to church. Her parents have often
called her “stupid” and negatively compared her to her brother,
who they believe can do no wrong. This dispar-agement of
Laura has in many ways become a self-fulfilling prophecy. She
repeated a grade in elementary school, seldom studied, and
often received failing grades. In school, she saw herself as a
failure and hung out with other students who viewed themselves
as failures. In high school, she frequently skipped school and
partied. Eight weeks before graduation, she was expelled for
skipping too much school. Her parents and the school system
had tried numerous times to motivate Laura to apply herself in
school; she even had a number of individual sessions with three
different social workers and a psychiatrist. Laura’s parents are
especially irate when she leaves home for three or four days at a
time and parties in an abandoned house in the inner city of
Milwaukee. She has lied to her parents about her sexual
activities, when the truth is she has a variety of partners. For-
tunately, she is taking birth control pills; however, she does not
always use a condom to protect herself from sexually
transmitted diseases. Some of Laura’s male friends are putting
pressure on her to become a prostitute so that there will be more

5. money to buy drugs and party. Laura and her friends have had
several encounters with the police for shoplifting, running away
from home, drinking liquor under age, kicking police officers
while being arrested, and driving in high-speed auto chases
after radar detected they were speeding. Laura is asking herself
a number of questions: Should she prostitute herself? Or should
she stop associating with her friends and try to make peace with
her parents by getting a high school education and a better-
paying job? Whenever she has tried to achieve the middle-class
goals of her parents, they have criticized her as being a failure.
She won-ders what her chances are of heading in a better
direction this time. The one thing she has found enjoyable in
life is partying with her friends, but she realizes her friends are
getting her in trouble with the police. She is worried that
cutting ties with her friends will result in living a life in which
she will be continually rejected and put down by others. She
wants a better-paying job but realizes her chances are not good,
especially because she hasn’t completed high school. She wants
a one-to-one relationship with a caring male, but because she
has a low self-concept, the only thing she feels that males will
find attrac-tive about her is sexual intercourse. This is one
reason she has had multiple sex partners. She is increasingly
concerned that being so sexually active is not right and may
result in her acquiring a sexually transmitted disease (such as
AIDS). What should she do about all of these concerns? She is
deeply perplexed and confused.
A Perspective
This chapter will focus primarily on the social changes and
some social problems encoun-tered by A
Perspective
This chapter will focus primarily on the social changes and
some social problems encoun-tered by adolescents. The social

6. growth from puberty to age 19 involves a number of passages:
from being dependent on parents to becoming more
independent, from adjust-ing to puberty to establishing a sexual
identity, from beginning to date to serious dating and perhaps
marrying, from being a child with parents to sometimes
parenting children, from earning money from babysitting to
having a full-time job or attending college, from buying
baseball gloves and playing ball to buying a car, and from
drinking soda to drinking beer and hard liquor and
experimenting with drugs. The pressures and stresses of this
time period produce many casualties who suffer from a variety
of problems.
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