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What is Bullying? A New Uniform Definition for Research

Feb 10, 2014 By: Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and R. Matthew Gladden, Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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In order to stop bullying before it begins, it is necessary to improve the consistency and comparability of data on bullying.

Bullying and Suicide: What’s the Connection?

Dec 30, 2013 By: Alana Vivolo-Kantor, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Ellen Singer, Center for Adoption Support and Education and Ingrid Donato, Chief, Mental Health Promotion Branch, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and StopBullying.gov Ed Board member and James Wright, LCPC, Public Health Advisor for SAMHSA and Stopbullying.gov Ed Board member
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In the past decade, headlines reporting the tragic stories of a young person's suicide death linked in some way to bullying have become regrettably comm