BULLIES ARE EVERYWHERE : Power Issues at Home, Work, and School

1. BULLIES ARE EVERYWHERE :Power Issues at Home, Work, and School Part III: Other Project Applications Stuart W. Twemlow, MD Professor of Psychiatry Baylor College of Medicine

2. Project Applications • Jamaica Development and Research • Police and Secondary Schools • All Age Schools: Activating helpful Bystanding • Municipal • Fire Department • City Council • Northbrook • Multi-Problem Family Project in Boston • Gentle Warrior Research

3. Project Applications • Jamaica Development and Research • Police and Secondary Schools • All Age Schools: Activating helpful Bystanding • Municipal • Fire Department • City Council • Northbrook • Multi-Problem Family Project in Boston

4. Community Stabilizing Systems • Social Control and Law Enforcement • Education • Spirituality • Health and Social Welfare

5. A Safe Connected Community

6. Jamaica • 1992-1996 Jamaican Police in Montego Bay • Present: Sheffield All Age School

7. Jamaican Police • 4 Year Training Project with 75 JCF • Violence Prevention Program in a Secondary School • Women, Inc. and Rape Prevention • Political Advocacy • Use of Physical Skills and Mental Training • Domestic Violence & AIDS Education • Consult with Tourism Board

8. Training Seminars with Stabilizing System: Police

9. Community Forums: Engineered Conflict

10. Police and Mentor Programs in Jamaican Schools

11. Advocacy for Stabilizing System (Police) with Prime Minister Michael Manley, Minister of Defense, KD Knight, and Dr. Twemlow Jamaican GLEENER, 1992

12. Involving Mayor and High Level Volunteer Contact by US Police Superintendent : Community Felt a Part of Prevetion Effort

13. A Simple Show of Thanks From the JCF: 100 hours with 92& Return over 5 Sessions

14. Activating the BystanderEarly Intervention • Identify High Risk Group • Create a Way to Be Valued for Helpful Bystanding • Create Hope Ongoing Research Project at Sheffield All Age School, 2006

15. Developing Natural Leaders Activation of Helpful Bystander by Finding and Supporting Natural Leadership

16. Establish a Reliable Liaison When working abroad, supervision can occur from afar, but local presence under analytic direction is a must.

17. Follow Through Create a Self Sustaining Source of Revenue by Connecting US Students and Teachers Using the “FRIEND BRACELETS”

18. Labor Disputes as Power Struggles • For the sake of clarity we will define “negotiation” as a two-person process of interactive decision-making and “mediation” as a technique using a third person recruited to help the negotiation process reach a mutually satisfactory outcome. That is, negotiation refers to the process and mediation to the technique

19. Dispute Mediation for Fire Department • Used Power Dynamics as A Model to Resolve a Labor Dispute: No Confidence • Bion’s Group Theory Used with Leader to De-Personalize Conflict • Shuttle Diplomacy on Issues Between Chief and Deputy Chiefs

20. Evil Chief • The chief is supported by upper management but forced to implement unpopular fiscal policies. • Upper manager dumps all negative decisions on the “evil chief.” • The chief micromanages personnel and is personally blamed for all difficult and unpopular decisions. • The chief becomes alienated from upper management who tend to side with the line workers • Upper management forms a tight group and amplifies the negative feelings towards the “evil chief” who then bullies and engages in a self-fulfilling prophecies. • The chief is privately and publicly humiliated and threatened. • The chief reacts with increased coercion and decreased input from upper management and lower management. • There is an increase in labor disputes and decreased management by teamwork. • Communications between the worker and management model the resistance of upper management and reinforce the “evil chief syndrome.”

21. City Council Intervention • City Government Unable to Function Because of the Level of Conflict • Altruistic Intervention • Retreats Used to Humanize • Used Power Dynamics to Describe Coercive Activities WITHOUT Blaming • Improved Community Relations

22. COERCIVE POWER IMBALANCE IN ORGANIZATIONS

23. Northbrook • Community Mobilization to Prevent School Violence • 2-Day Intervention with Follow Up • Prediction of Social Aggression Build Up • Involvement of a Private Foundation to Fund Peaceful Schools • Prediction of a National Embarrassment

24. The Seemingly Ideal Community • Lakeshore Community • No Diversity ( Asian and White) • All Special Education Farmed Out • Parents Over involved in Achievement • Hi demand on Children to Excel • Dismissive School

25. National News for a Week: Hazing in Northbrook

26. Mentalization Based Therapy(MBT) • Implicit Mentalization • Explicit Mentalization (Autobiographical Agency) • Attachment and Affective Mentalization • Secure Attachment Relationship (Therapist)

27. Mentalization Based Approach to the Multi-Problem Family • Long term psychotherapy at home and in the school as part of a child protective service plan with medical supervision focusing on the mentalizing approach to psychotherapy, previously described; • Strong involvement of the community and state agencies in creating supportive and reparative networks to support the multi-problem family; • Long term expressive play therapy for vulnerable and traumatized children; • Parenting education and safety planning as part of the therapy; • Multi-disciplinary treatment planning; • Role-modeling of mentalizing and non-coercive power management in all therapists; • Development of a long-term, non-coercive relationship with the care-delivery system.