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You Can Do It! Bullying - The Power to Cope

The Bernard Group trading as You Can Do It! Education

  • Online

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: Be You

Product type: Program; Online resources (e.g. videos, games, tools, readings); Student activities; Activity sheets; Learning modules; Class lesson plans

Contact details

The Bernard Group trading as You Can Do It! Education
ABN: 18 610 825 410

https://youcandoiteducation.com.au/2024/10/17/bullying-the-power-to-cope/

enquiries@youcandoiteducation.com.au

Focus areas

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained

Aims & approach

Bullying - The Power to Cope teaches students to self-manage when faced with different types of bullying and other types of anti-social behaviour.

The program teaches students the attitudes (e.g., self-acceptance), coping skills (e.g., de-catastrophising, coping self-talk) and direct action strategies to self-manage their emotions (anxiety, anger) and behaviours when faced with different types of bullying. A further aim is to teach students what to say and do to encourage the bulling behaviour to stop.

Audience: Teachers and mental health practitioners of middle/upper primary and lower/middle secondary, and their students.

This prevention mental health cognitive-behavioural course consists of 4 x 50 mins lessons that include four animated videos covering four elements
Part 1. Bullying and Its Impact
Part 2. Thinking Makes It So
Part 3. Things to Say and Do
Part 4. Coping in Action.

Implementation support

  • Implementation training webinars or modules

Evidence

The program is underpinned by CBT/REBT behaviour therapy. Research showing positive outcomes includes:

  • Markopolous, Z. and Bernard, M.E. (2015). Effect of the Bullying: The Power to Cope program on children's response to bullying. Journal of Relationships Research, 6, 1-11.
  • Stewart, J. and Bernard, M.E. (2023). Empowering the victims of bullying: The 'Bullying: The Power to Cope Program'. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 23, 147-172. https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2023.2.15