• PMD: 6
• Cost: Included in Registration
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

1. learn what prosocial teasing is and how it differs from behaviors such as bullying;
2. see descriptive results of a research study to learn how late adolescents engage in prosocial teasing; and
3. learn implications of assessment and awareness of prosocial teasing for practice with youth.

Description

School psychologists will learn about prosocial teasing and a new way to measure these behaviors with late adolescents through study results.

Presenter(s)

FNU Ourja, Northern Illinois University
Christine K. Malecki, Northern Illinois University
Yoonsun Pyun, Northern Illinois University

Contributor(s)

Emily A. Skiba, Kristina L. Wiemer