Helping Girls Cope with and Communicate about Social Aggression

Dispel the "mean girl" tendencies from your classroom.

Originally Broadcast on December 7, 2009 and rebroadcast on June 14, 2010 • $249
60-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar

When adolescent girls are socially aggressive, they may use gossip, rumor spreading, peer manipulation, and eye rolling as a means of damaging another girl’s self-esteem and/or her relationship with others. Being victimized is associated with a number of outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness.

In this seminar, Helping Girls Cope with and Communicate about Social Aggression, we will highlight social aggression and these associated outcomes. We will also focus on an easy-to-use method based on narrative communication, psychology, and therapy research to help girls cope with their emotions.

This seminar will highlight activities teachers can do with students that are designed to help girls communicate about and cope with their experiences with social aggression. Given that young people often experience difficulty when it comes to using language to express their emotions about stressful life events, these activities involve students communicating about social aggression through metaphor and art.

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This seminar will help you reflect on current practices and think more about aligning those practices with more ideas proven through research. In addition, the information will be useful to educators who may be struggling to address the multiple challenges that an increasing number of students present as barriers to learning.

After viewing this seminar you will be able to:

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Help your students communicate about and cope with social aggression!

About the Presenter: Erin Willer
Erin K. Willer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver. After receiving a B.S. in Speech Communication Education with a minor in English Education from Illinois State University, she was a high school speech and English teacher. Erin also completed an M.S. in Communication at Illinois State and a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on the communicative management of the dark side of interpersonal, intergroup, and family relationships and how such management impacts individual and relational well-being. The lion’s share of Erin’s research centers on how adolescent girls and young women communicatively manage social aggression (e.g., gossip, social exclusion, peer manipulation) and the potentially negative and positive outcomes of these processes. Erin is a member of the National Communication Association and the Western States Communication Association. Her published works included:

Willer, E. K., & Cupach, W. R. (2008). When “sugar and spice” turn to “fire and ice”: Factors affecting the adverse consequences of relational aggression among adolescent girls. Communication Studies, 59, 415-429.

Willer, E. K., & Cupach, W. R. (in press). Social aggression among adolescent girls. In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close relationships—II. New York: Routledge.

Braithwaite, D. O., Bach, B. W., Baxter, L. A., DiVerniero, B., Hammonds, J., Nunziata, A. M., Willer, E. K., & Wolf, B. M. (in press). Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Koenig Kellas, J., Willer, E. K., & Kranstuber, H. (in press). Looking for the happily ever after? Making sense of the dark side (and the dark side of making sense) of personal relationships. In W. R. Cupach & B. H. Spitzberg (Eds.), The dark side of close.

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Originally Broadcast on December 7, 2009 and rebroadcast on June 14, 2010 • $249
60-Minute Recording of Audio Online Seminar