It’s Time to Ask the Right Questions: Highlighting Critical Areas to Explore Cyberbullying in Adolescents
Received Date: Sep 19, 2016 / Accepted Date: Sep 30, 2016 / Published Date: Oct 08, 2016
Abstract
Cyberbullying is recognized as a serious public health problem in youth and increasingly linked with both short and long term psychological, physiological and social consequences. In the age of social media, clinicians are expected to have a low threshold of suspicion for cyberbullying; however, an insufficient awareness of its prevalence along with a lack of available standardized interviewing techniques may become a barrier for its uniform assessment. This editorial underscores the importance of learning the differences between both traditional bullying and cyberbullying and to encourage providers to adopt creative ways to interview youth for early recognition and timely intervention.
Keywords: Adolescent; Bullying; Cyberbullying; Interview
Citation: Afzal KI (2016) It’s Time to Ask the Right Questions: Highlighting Critical Areas to Explore Cyberbullying in Adolescents. J Child Adolesc Behav 4: 311. Doi: 10.4172/2375-4494.1000311
Copyright: © 2016 Afzal KI. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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