Poppy meadow by Body-n-Care. Public domain viaPixabay.
When you stretch a rubber band, even after many times, it will likely return to its original form. We call this resilience. When children are stretched and bent out of shape due to bad experiences they encounter, we expect they will be resilient too and snap back to their previous self. However, after various types of difficult or traumatic interactions, children are not the same. The analogy of the rubber band does not hold up.
Most children experience bullying in some capacity – as victim, as witness, as bully – or maybe all three. As adults we tend to think there is no damage, with the exception of perhaps an uncomfortable memory or two. However, the science on this subject depicts something different.
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I rarely provide a link to the book being promoted by the OUP but this one seems too important to leave to the chance that you will link through to the original post.
More information and the chance to buy
Out of my budget range at £19.99 but it may be available in a public library or possibly secondhand (published June 2016).
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