Stuart Twemlow is a leading world expert on the prevention of bullying. His understanding of bullying and anti-bullying strategies is based on a psychoanalytically informed model. Bullying is not simply fighting, nor is it a single event. Rather, bullying is a triadic process occurring in a co-created relationship that includes the bully, the victim and the bystander, and it is a process in which these roles are interchangeable (Twemlow and Sacco). Dr. Twemlow will present a dynamic model of bullying, followed by a discussion of two cases: a school situation, presented by Nancy Rappaport, and a patient treatment, presented by Carol Rubin. There will be ample time for open discussion.

Learning Objectives:
1. To define bullying as a dynamic concept.
2. To show how individual psychoanalytic principles can be integrated with social systems theory to better understand psychopathology in group settings.
3. To better understand what factors anti-bullying strategies must address for them to be effective in different situations and settings.

References:
1. Twemlow, S, Fonagy, P., Sacco, F. “The Bystander Role of Teachers and Students in the Social Architecture of Bullying and Violence in Schools & Communities”, Annals New York Academy of Sciences, (2004), 1036, pp 215-0232.
2. Twemlow, S, Fonagy, P, Sacco, F. “A Developmental Approach to Mentalizing Communities: I The Peaceful Schools Experiement” (2005), Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69, (4), pp 265-281.
3. Rudden, M, Twemlow, S, Ackerman, S. “Leadership and Regressive Group Processes: A Pilot Study”, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, (2008) 89: pp 993-1010.

Faculty:
Stuart W. Twemlow, MD: Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine; Co-author of Preventing Bullying and School Violence.
Nancy Rappaport, MD: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of School Programs at Cambridge Health Alliance; and upcoming publication The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Teaching The Most Challenging Students (Harvard Education Press, April 2012).
Carol Rubin, PhD: Faculty, PINE Psychoanalytic Center; Private Practice, Chestnut Hill, MA
Stephen D. Kerzner, MD: Training and Supervising Analyst: PINE Psychoanalytic Center; Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalyst in practice in Brookline and Duxbury; Chair, APsaA Discussion Group on Social and Emotional Education in K-12 schools.

Continuing Education
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