Dr. Swearer presented at the Queen's College 48th annual School Psychology Conference in Queen's College, New York on Friday, January 27, 2012.
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Upcoming Presentations
The Target Bullying Team will be presenting several posters at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference in Philadelphia, PA in February, 2012:
Collins, A.M. Swearer, S. M., Berry, B., Strawhun, J., Lembeck, P.,
Fluke, S., & Mickelson, W. T. (2012, February). Gender roles and bullying. Poster to be presented at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Berry, B., Swearer, S. M., Lembeck, P., Collins, A.M., Strawhun, J., & Fluke, S. (2012, February). The influence of social anxiety and bullying in youth. Poster to be presented at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Lembeck, P., Swearer, S. M., Fluke, S., Collins, A.M., Berry, B., & Strawhun, J. (2012, February). Weighing the issue: How BMI affects involvement in bullying. Poster to be presented at the National Association of School Psychologists annual conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Swearer will be presenting a documented session at NASP,
“Cyberbullying, Relational bullying, and physical bullying: What can
school psychologists do?” on Thursday, February 23, 2012 from
12:00-1:20pm.
Dr. Swearer and Dr. Steve Leff will present a mini-skills workshop, "Highlighting two empirically supported relational aggression and bullying prevention programs" on Thursday, February 23 from 10AM - 11:50AM.
For more information, visit the official NASP conference website here.
Dr. Swearer will present a paper, "Gender and Moral Disengagement" in the symposium, "Not Caring about Right or Wrong: Developmental and Peer-Context Processes in Early Adolescents' Moral Disengagement" at the Society for Research on Adolescence in Vancouver, Canada on March 8-10, 2012.
Dr. Swearer will present on effective bullying prevention and intervention strategies at the New Jersey Association of School Psychologists Spring Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Monroe/Jamesburg, New Jersey on Friday, May 4, 2012.
Recent Research Presentations
Dr. Swearer presented a half-day workshop to Region V in Lincoln, Nebraska on "Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Adults on Friday, September 9, 2011.
Dr. Swearer presented a full-day workshop on best practices in bullyling prevention and intervention at The Country School in Easton, Maryland on Monday, August 22, 2011.
Dr. Swearer at the Target Bullying Research team gave several presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC in early August, 2011. Presentations included:
"A Cross-Sequential Investigation of the Relationship between Bully/Victim Status and Social Anxiety,"
"Bullying and Dating Experiences: A Retrospective Examination,"
"Teacher-Student Discordance in Perceptions of Bullying."


Dr. Swearer was the keynote speaker at the Beyond Bullying: Transforming schools the caring way conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 13-15, 2011. For more information, please visit the conference website.
Dr.
Swearer was a panelist for the "Roles of Professionals in
Preventing Harm from Misuse of Social Media and Bullying" panel
discussion at the Identity, Connectedness, and Threat in Social
Networks: Adolescent and Young Adult Use and Misuse of New Media
conference on Monday, November 14, 2011.
The Target Bully Team presented to the University of Nebraska's Child, Youth and Family Studies 385 course on Wednesday, November 2, 2011.
Dr.
Swearer presented a full-day workshop, "Bullying Prevention and
Intervention: Realistic Strategies for School Psychologists" at the fall
Pennsylvania School Psychologists Association conference on Wednesday,
October 19, 2011.
"Dr. Swearer presented the Berneuter Lecture, "Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Current Research and Directions for the Future" at Pennsylvania State University on Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
Dr. Swearer presented at the Federal Partners in Bullying
Prevention summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.
Dr.
Swearer presented the keynote address, "Beyond Bullying:
Creating Healthy, Caring, Social Relationships" at the Nebraska
Department of Education's Youth Risk Behaviors conference in Hastings,
Nebraska on Monday, September 19, 2011.
Dr.
Swearer lead break-out sessions at the Bullying @ School and
Online: International Experts Offer Real World Solutions conference in
Omaha, Nebraska on June 13, 2011. Sessions included, "Bullying
Intervention Program," "Psychological Issues in Bullying," and "Bullying
and Suicide Prevention."
Dr.
Swearer presented, "The Bullying Intervention Program: School-Based
Treatment for Bully Perpetrators" on Friday, May 20, 2011 to the
Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology at the Omaha
Public Schools Administration Building.
Dr.
Swearer presented a breakout session, Cyber-bullying: R U rdy? At
the 2011 Nebraska Juvenile Justice Association conference on Thursday,
May 12, 2011 in Kearney, Nebraska.
Dr.
Swearer presented on bullying and special needs students at the
conference, "When Worlds Collide - 2011: Facing the Challenges of
Special Education" at Columbia University, NYC, NY on Friday, May 6,
2011.
Dr.
Swearer presented on bullying at the Ethics Center Brownbag on
Thursday, April 21 from 12:30PM - 1:30PM in the Nebraska Union, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Dr. Swearer spoke at the Michigan Bullying Prevention Conference on March 30, 2011 at the MSU Kellogg Center in East Lansing, Michigan.
Dr. Swearer presented a half-day workshop, “Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools” on Thursday, February 24th, 2011 at the Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Swearer was a guest on the 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour where she discussed bullying and the Target Bully Research Team's efforts at preventing it.
Dr. Rhonda Tuner presented, Bullying Prevention and Intervention at the Holiday Inn, Fargo North Dakota on Wednesday, November 10, at 9:00AM.
Dr. Swearer delivered the keynote address on Monday, November 8, 2010 at the Performance Institute conference, "School and Cyber Bullying: Minimize and Eradicate Child Bullying and School Violence" in Arlington, VA. Additionally, she gave talks at the 10AM, 11AM, and 1PM sessions.
Dr. Swearer at the Target Bully Research Team presented a mini-skills workshop, "The Bullying Intervention Program: School-Based Treatment for Bully Prepetrators" on Friday, Febraury 25th, 2011 at the National Association of School Psychologists conference at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
Dr. Swearer presented an all-day workshop, “Target Bullying: Assessment and Intervention” to the Association of Independent Maryland Schools at Linden Hall in Ellicott City, MD on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 from 8:30am to 2:30pm. For more information: http://aimsmd.org.
Swearer, S. (September 13, 2010). Workshop presented to school staff, "The Bullying Intervention Program." Columbus, Kansas.
Swearer, S. (March 16, 2010). School administer training to address bullying. Presentation delivered to the Siskin Children's Institute. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dorothy L. Espleage & Susan M. Swearer. Thursday, March 4, 2010. Hyatt Regency Chicago, Plaza A. Homophobia and Bullying: An Update and Call to Action. Presentation at the National Association of School Psychologists. Chicago, Il.
Susan M. Swearer gave a talk entitled, "Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools" that will be presented on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the Nobody's Perfect Workshop: Exploring Deaf Culture. 9am to 3pm (includes lunch). To register, please contact Nancy Engen-Wedin at 402-472-4707. Workshop fee: $20 (free for LPS teachers). Workshop will be held at the Lied Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Susan M. Swearer & Dorothy L. Espelage. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Sheraton Dallas Hotel. 400 North Olive Street. Dallas, TX. Stories of Us: Promoting Positive Peer Relationships (P3R) Bullying Prevention Program. Half-day workshop presented at the National Summit on Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan: Forging a Shared Agenda.
Swearer, S. M. (2009, September). Exclusion and Aggression:
Identifying and Intervening in Bullying Behavior. Featured presentation at the Exclusion
and Aggression Conference. Bettendorf, IA.
Swearer, S. M. (2009, September). Bullying and Mental Health
Issues. Workshop presented at the Exclusion and Aggression Conference.
Bettendorf, IA.
Wang, C., Swearer, S.M., & Givens, J. (2009, August). School
attachment and bullying behavior. Poster presented at the American Psychological
Association annual meeting. Toronto, Canada.
Buhs, E.S., Swearer, S.M.,
& Lieske, J. (2009, April). Early adolescent victimization and links to
internalizing problems: The role of gender, ethnicity, and victims’ causal
attributions. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society
for Research on Child Development,
Denver, CO.
Buhs, E.S., Troop, W., Wang, C., & Swearer, S.M. (2009,
April). Peer aggression and victimization as predictors of internalizing
problems: The role of ethnicity and gender in early adolescence. Paper
presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
Givens, J.E., Toland, M., Swearer, S.M., & Bovaird, J. (2009,
April). Evaluating the children’s version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test using item response theory. Poster
presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
Siebecker, A.B., Wang, C., & Swearer, S.M. (2009, April). The relationship
between being severity of being bullied and internalizing symptoms. Poster
presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Denver, CO.
Turner, R., Swearer, S.M., & Buhs,
E. (2009, April). Moral disengagement as a preditor of bullying and aggression:
Are there gender differences? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the
Society for Research on Child Development,
Denver, CO.
Wang, C., Swearer, S.M., Givens, J., & Soulakova, J. (2009,
April). Bullying: A longitudinal investigation of depression, anxiety, and
aggression. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for
Research on Child Development,
Denver, CO.
Jimerson, S.R.,
Swearer, S.M., & Espelage, D.L. (2009, February). Collaborating with
students to reduce bullying: Promoting Positive Peer relationships (P3R).
Mini-skills session presented at the Annual Convention of the National
Association of School Psychologists, Boston,
MA.
Swearer, S.M., Espelage, D.L.,
Merrell, K.W., & Napolitano, S.A. (2009, February). Bullying Prevention and
Intervention: Essential Strategies for School Psychologists. Full-day workshop
presented at the National Association of School Psychologist (NASP). Boston,
MA.