Find helpful resources for understanding and dealing with bullying and cyberbullying, including a quiz, books, blog posts, practical help, podcasts, specific podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Bullying can affect confidence, school or work performance, relationships, anxiety, depression, and the way someone sees themselves long after the bullying ends. Useful support should focus on stopping the bullying where possible, documenting what is happening, involving people with authority, rebuilding confidence, and challenging the negative beliefs that bullying can leave behind.
Quiz
Books
Blog Posts
- How to Handle Workplace Bullying as an Adult?
- 50 Ways You Become Your Own Bully
- 10 Subtle Forms of Bullying People Often Miss
- How to Heal From the Hidden Trauma of Bullying That Lingers for Years?
- Recognizing Signs of Bullying In children: 10 Signs to Watch for
- Top 7 Causes of Cyberbullying (& How to Heal)
Bullying Help & Practical Resources
- StopBullying.gov
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A major U.S. government resource covering school bullying, cyberbullying, warning signs, responding to bullying, helping children who bully others, and working with schools. It has separate information for parents, students, teachers, and community professionals.
Bullying Podcasts
- Breaking Bullying — Tim Flynn
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A current weekly podcast focused specifically on bullying and harassment affecting both children and adults. Episodes include survivor stories, expert interviews, bullying prevention, confidence, school problems, workplace bullying, and practical responses. - Exposing Workplace Bullying — Dr. Jan Kircher
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A current podcast focused on bullying in professional environments. It covers manipulation, workplace power, mobbing, documentation, leadership failures, psychological effects, and practical ways employees can protect themselves. - Coffee Break: Breaking the Cycle of Bullying in Healthcare
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Focuses on workplace bullying, incivility, and toxic behavior in healthcare settings. Although designed mainly for healthcare professionals, many of the discussions about difficult coworkers, leadership, boundaries, and organizational culture apply more broadly.
Specific Bullying Podcast Episodes
- Kindness Wins — Strategies to Prevent Bullying — Public Health Out Loud
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A 2026 episode with school psychology professionals discussing what parents and caregivers need to know about bullying. It covers recognizing warning signs, prevention, school culture, and practical ways adults can intervene. - Parents’ Guide to Dealing With Bullies and Their Victims — Willow Kids Podcast
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An episode covering what bullying actually is, why it develops, cyberbullying, warning signs, and what parents can do when their child is being bullied. It also discusses common responses that may unintentionally make the situation worse. - How Not to Deal With Bullying — Kohn’s Zone
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An episode examining why some traditional anti-bullying strategies fail. It looks at punishment, school culture, competition, and why bullying prevention requires changing the environment around the behavior rather than focusing only on one child. - Workplace Bullying Is Still Legal — What Therapists Are Missing — The Mental Health Toolbox Podcast
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A discussion about how workplace bullying can damage confidence, mental health, and psychological safety. It explores shame, self-blame, power differences, and why someone may develop anxiety, depression, or burnout while working in a hostile environment.
TED & TEDx Talks About Bullying
- How Bullying Spreads — and How Social Bravery Stops It — Amy Cuddy
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A TED talk by social psychologist Amy Cuddy examining how bullying spreads when other people stay silent. She explains how small acts of speaking up, supporting targets, and refusing to join harmful group behavior can weaken bullying cultures. - To This Day … for the Bullied and Beautiful — Shane Koyczan
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One of the best-known TED talks about the long-term emotional effects of childhood bullying. Poet Shane Koyczan discusses cruelty, shame, identity, and how words from childhood can continue affecting someone years later. - What Cyberbullying Really Is and How We Can Fight It — Nafsika Antoniadou
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Explains what makes online harassment cyberbullying and examines the roles of the person bullying, the person being targeted, and bystanders. It also discusses prevention and practical responses. - The Psychological Causes of Cyberbullying — Yi Zhu
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Uses personal experience to explore why people attack others online and how digital environments can encourage behavior people might not show face-to-face. The talk also looks at how thinking differently about online interactions can reduce harm. - Bullying Ends Here — Tad Milmine
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Tad Milmine shares his experiences with childhood abuse, neglect, bullying, and mental-health struggles. He discusses why adults need to listen seriously when children report bullying rather than assuming they should simply toughen up. - Unintentional Bullying — Phoebe Stratford
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Looks at bullying from the perspective of someone who realized that her own behavior was hurting other people. It is useful for understanding how group behavior, jokes, exclusion, and repeated comments can become bullying even when the person doing them does not initially see themselves as a bully.
