Bullying Prevention & Intervention: Realistic Strategies for School Personnel

with

Susan Swearer

This session will focus on recognizing the complexity, scope, and effects of bullying behaviors, developing a framework for understanding it and some practical strategies for reducing bullying in schools.

Bio

Dr. Susan M. Swearer is the Willa Cather Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is a licensed psychologist, co-director of the Bullying Research Network and director of the Nebraska Bullying Prevention and Intervention Initiative. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA, her M.S. in Special Education from the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA, and her Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX. She completed an APA-approved internship with the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology at Boys Town in Omaha, NE.