Thanks Peggy for the information. Does anyone know where I can contact Alan?


At 10:14 AM 7/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Muriel Vandepol wrote
>
>I'm in need of assistance and felt this was a good forum for excellent
>feedback. I'm working with a school council conmmittee on
>harassment/bullying in the K-8 grade level. We have viewed the individual
>school report data on the "Region of Waterloo's Youth Survey 1997"
>prepared
>by The Waterloo Region Community Safety and Crime Prevention Council. The
>individual results showed a pattern of high percentages of affirmative
>responses to the question "Has someone ever made fun of you?" in the
>class,
>halls outside etc.
>This committee wishes to rework this question to get a better/more
>specific
>idea of what is involved in "being made fun of" and if we are looking at
>childhood bantering (a sample survey had some written responses brushing
>off
>the "being made fun of" as "no big deal")  vs a hurtful impact.
> Our dilemna is this; How do we formulate a good survey question to get at
>whether we are dealing with an issue of significant proportions or not. We
>will be drafting surveys for primary(1-3),junior(4-6), senior(7-8),staff
>and
>parents.
>I appreciate any and all suggestions to assist this energetic group of
>parents/school personnel to promote a healthy school climate.
>
>
>Muriel
>
>The London Family Court Clinic has some excellent info on bullying and
>has documented a model program called ASAP: A School-Based Anti-Violence
>Program. Check out their website at
>http://www.1on.hookup.net/~family/bully.htm.  You might want to contact
>someone there.
>
>Also, Alan King and colleagues asked several questions related to
>bullying in the 1994 Cross National Survey on young people (conducted for
>the WHO). I got the report with is titled The Health of Youth: A
>Cross-National Survey from Health Canada.  Not sure where Alan King is
>now (he used to be at Queens) but his questions would have been well
>validated.
>
>Hope this helps
>
>Peggy Edwards
>
>