School Bullying Prevention and Intervention in China

• In Event: Poster session III
  In Poster Session: Poster session 3

Proposal

Bully behavior in school occurs frequently in China, which leads to a series of harms to children including academic performance, mental and physical health. However, there is no systematic and effective policy to prevent school bullying in China, which is in an urgent demand.
This policy brief introduces the background and the current situation with case studies of school bullying especially school violence in China, as well as the negative influence. This policy brief also discusses the relevant and how they work and implementation challenges related to school bully prevention and intervention. The policy brief takes a look at the school bullying policy in Japan where raised earlier awareness and solutions before China and get some inspirations to fit into Chinese context as well as limitations in China’s context, which aims to prevent and intervene the school bullying and creates a safe environment for each kid to in school.

Author

• Lin Jiang, University of Pennsylvania