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The Myth of “Mean Girls”

Sep 10, 2015 By: Pamela Orpinas, Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Caroline McNicholas, Health Promotion and Behavior, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and Lusine Nahapetyan, Kinesiology and Health Studies, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
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Bullying can take many forms: hitting or pushing (physical bullying), teasing or calling others bad names (verbal bullying).

Making Bullying Prevention Part of the Medical Profession’s DNA

Jul 22, 2015 By: Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University College of Medicine and Erin Reiney, MPH, CHES, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and former StopBullying.gov Ed Board member
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As a pediatric emergency medicine physician, seeing sick and injured kids in and out of your emergency department can be difficult, but a part of the job.