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Description
Bullying is a considerable problem among school students, and school-wide positive behaviour support interventions are regarded as helpful in addressing it. In this project, we use a research informed storybook to promote children’s awareness, understanding, and disclosure of school bullying. Targeted research-informed children’s storybooks can support primary care providers and children to understand and navigate complex topics and issues, and our established development framework distils academic and expert (e.g., charity) insight into an accessible and usable format through an iterative story and illustration development process. On other collaborative projects, our storybook approach has shown to be effective in making research findings/expert insight practical and engaging, often helping to initiate conversations with children to promote deeper engagement and learning on a specific topic. The research informed storybook will aim to promote children’s knowledge of school bullying. Specifically, the storybook will explore children’s knowledge of how bullying is defined, the impact it can lead to, and effective strategies to promote disclose of school bullying victimisation. As part of this programme of research the initial step will be seeking parental and teacher perceptions of this storybook approach to raise awareness of school bullying, and thus feeding into further research to consider how children view the storybook, and the effectiveness of the research informed storybook.
Keywords
Bullying; Storybook; Awareness; Prevention
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Mixed method study |
