How role playing can help prevent bullying

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If your child is either shy and passive, or aggressive and mean, if they tend to be the victim, or if they tend to be the bully, you are the best teacher for your child. And we have an evidence-based manual based on good, solid scientific evidence available for you at our website for the UCLA Family Commons. It’s a 26-session program that basically is a manual, a how to manual for you to help your children learn better social skills. We encourage you to role play, make an action drama with your child. You child is an actor in a problem situation and you practice that situation over and over until they are able to demonstrate a way of behaving that you feel good about and they feel good about. Those behaviors are practiced overtime and then you have to catch them being good, doing those behaviors in your day-to-day life at home. Try the instruction manual at our website UCLA Family Commons.

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Mary Jane Rotheram, PhD

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Dr. Rotheram-Borus has spent the past 20 years developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based interventions for children and families. She has worked extensively with adolescents, especially those at risk for substance abuse, HIV, homelessness, depression, suicide, and long-term unemployment. Dr. Rotheram-Borus has directed and implemented several landmark intervention studies that have demonstrated the benefits of providing behavior change programs and support to families in risky situations. Several of these programs have received national and international recognition, including designation as model programs by the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, Dr. Rotheram-Borus has ongoing projects in Uganda, China, and South Africa, as well as the United States. Dr. Rotheram-Borus has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal articles, including publications in Science, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Public Health. She has received more than 40 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to design prevention programs for children and families at high risk for HIV, mental health problems, suicide, and substance abuse. In 2001, Science identified her as number two of the top-funded NIH multi-grant recipients; she was the only woman in the top ten.

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