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Educating for diversity : an evaluation of a sexuality diversity workshop to address secondary school bullying
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Lucassen, Mathijs FG and Burford, James (2015) Educating for diversity : an evaluation of a sexuality diversity workshop to address secondary school bullying. Australasian Psychiatry, 23 (5). pp. 544-549. doi:10.1177/1039856215592324 ISSN 1039-8562.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856215592324
Abstract
Objective:
To evaluate the potential of a 60-minute sexuality diversity workshop to address bullying in secondary schools.
Methods:
Students completed pre- and post-workshop questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to summarise results with pre- to immediate post-workshop changes compared using t-tests. Thematic analysis was used to analyse open-ended questionnaire responses.
Results:
We had 229 students (mean age 13.7 years) attending 10 workshops participate in the study. Three-quarters of students thought the workshop would reduce bullying in schools, and over 95% of the participants thought that other secondary schools should offer the workshop. There was a significant increase in valuing (p < 0.001) and understanding (p < 0.001) sexuality-diverse individuals (e.g. lesbian, gay and bisexual people), between the pre- and post-workshop results. School climates were largely perceived to be ‘hard’ and included ‘bullying/mocking’ of sexuality-diverse students; however, many individual students reported a desire to be supportive of their sexuality-diverse peers.
Conclusions:
Sexuality-based bullying is commonplace in secondary schools. This form of bullying is associated with depression and suicide attempts. Reducing sexuality-based bullying is very likely to have a positive impact on the mental health of young people. Brief workshops, as a part of a wider suite of interventions, have some potential to create safer school environments.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Australasian Psychiatry | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||
ISSN: | 1039-8562 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 544-549 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1039856215592324 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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