Bullying Study

I would love to do a study, or at least take part in one, that dives deeply into the world of the victims of bullying. I had never even considered the difference between behavioral and characterological in terms of how victims think about themselves before, during, and after an incident in which they have been bullied. Obviously, we need to learn far more about the differences in how they think and whether or not those differences are innate or learned, but I'm far more interested in studying different methods of intervention. There is no way that we will ever be able to stop every single case of bullying, but can we change the way they think about the experience? I get tingles thinking about making at least a minimal advancement in this area of our understanding because it may mean the difference between a life lived in shame and one lived in confidence. I think we could use any number of methods to find kids all over the country that have been bullied. I believe it to be essential that we find them early, like kindergarten, because they haven't completely formed their self-image. We could split the kids into different categories based on how they talk about their individual experiences of being bullied. Categories could be something like: all behavioral, some behavioral/some characterological, very little behavioral, all characterological, and very little characterological. That may not be all the possibilities but it is a start. Then we could divide the kids into sub-categories based on the method of interventions that we would like to try such as therapy(individual, group, and family), pairing them with kids that have had similar experiences or speak about the experience similarly, and individually coaching parents on different ways that they can deal with their child being bullied. Again, that doesn't cover it all, but it's a start. I would suggest that we follow, and maintain treatment methods, all the way through high school and then analyze how different everybody has become. Maybe this could give us a small hand in determining how to best help a child that is the victim of bullying and maybe change the outcome of their development through adolescence.