Childhood Bullying Behavior and Later Psychiatric Hospital and Psychopharmacologic Treatment

Abstract

Boys and girls who display frequent bullying behavior should be evaluated for possible psychiatric problems, as bullying behaviors in concert with psychiatric symptoms are early markers of risk of psychiatric outcome. Among females, frequent childhood victimization predicts later psychiatric problems irrespective of psychiatric problems at baseline.

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“…However, school victimisation showed the strongest link to behaviour problems and being unhappy, with five-fold increased odds. This finding replicates recent evidence that school victimisation poses young people at serious risk of mental health problems , Reijntjes et al 2010, Sourander et al 2009. This study adds that bullying between siblings increases the risk of becoming a victim of peers at school, and carries an additional independent risk for behaviour problems.…”

The long‐term impact of bullying victimization on mental health

“…Drawing on CAMS, military-sponsored researchers developed a more complete and flexible approach, the Therapeutic Risk Management (TRM) framework. In this framework, clinicians augment evaluation with a risk assessment tool of their choosing, to stratify risk in terms of severity (low, medium, or high) and temporality (acute or chronic), and to collaboratively develop a safety plan based on a six step template 4 . The CAMS and TRM models share a clinically-motivated emphasis on avoiding involuntary hospitalization, arguing that it can damage the alliance and result in psychosocial setbacks that might exacerbate long-term suicide risk.…”

Bully/victims: a longitudinal, population-based cohort study of their mental health

“…They are more socially isolated, lonely and less able to form friendships [28,29] and most likely to come from dysfunctional families [30]. These negative factors, rather than being a bully/victim per se, may explain why they are at increased risk for mental health problems [31]. It is important to understand whether bully/victims start off as pure victims (who imitate the bullying behaviour in an attempt to fight back), pure bullies (who lose their status) or whether they start of as being bully/victims.…”