The Truth About Bullies

Episode 27- The Evelyn Field Interview


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Link to Evelyn's book, Harry the Bully Blocker https://www.bullying.com.au/harrythebullyblocker/

-School counselor for 50 years -Mt. Scopus Jewish school in the family for generations -When her daughters finished at the school she left too, and wrote "Bully Busting" and two books on workplace bullying -Addressing the lack of practical guidance a school counselor gets on how to deal with cases of bullying -Explanation of what the DSM 5 is -Social alienation in the Western world, exacerbated by Corona, mitigated by religion -The need for kids to learn how to get along with all kinds of people, of all ages -Evelyn posits that despite all the research on the damage caused by bullying, it's not actually taken seriously by schools or the psychological field -Izzy posits that it is taken seriously, it's just that schools are being required to do the things that make the problem worse -Prevalence of Holocaust awareness in Melbourne -Learning from Netflix series how Chinese, Koreans and Japanese deal with mean people -The trend in Korea to publicly shame those who bullied you as a kid; devastating to the accused -Research shows kids who tell the most get picked on the most -Izzy explains what's so problematic about treating bullying like a legal issue -Izzy and Evelyn role-play (she calls him a bitch) -Evelyn posits that Jews (historical victims of extreme tragedies) are plagued less by bullying

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The Truth About BulliesBy Izzy C. Kalman