Bullying Prevention and Intervention/ Part 2: Prevention (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This is a book club book! Check your local library or bookstore for Bullying Prevention and Intervention by Cindy Miller, LCSW, and Cynthia Lowen. This course covers Part 2 of the book and includes chapters 6-9. Part 2 of Bullying Prevention and Intervention discusses prevention and focuses on kid-friendly schools and the development of positive character traits.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Author: Cindy Miller, LCSW, and Cynthia Lowen
Publisher: Alpha Books, Penguin Books (USA) Inc.
Find the reading at: This is a book club book. You can buy the book The Essential Guide to Bullying: Prevention And Intervention by using this link to amazon.com or you can check with your local bookstore or library.
Program Objectives: Describe the role of schools in bullying prevention. Describe the role of parenting in bullying prevention. Identify the benefits of positive character traits.
Learning objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to bullying prevention.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.