Since 2005, The Triumph Organization has served as Central Ohio’s
leading resource on girl bullying. Triumph believes that every girl is
worthy of a safe and encouraging social and academic environment that
promotes healthy communication and competition and protects against
emotional and psychological damage. Therefore, it is Triumph’s mission
to provide awareness and educational tools that assist administrators,
teachers and guidance counselors in developing school-based programs that
ignite positive social relationships among girls. Through mentorship, Triumph works with girls who have been victimized, empowers bystanders to stand against relational bullying, and helps aggressors realize their behaviors and channel their destructive emotions and actions into productive outlets. Triumph also acts as an educator to parents.
Girl bullying, also known as relational aggression, is a form of social abuse that occurs when relationships are used to emotionally and psychologically manipulate and hurt a targeted individual’s associations and reputation. Relational aggression is carried out through indirect tactics such as alliance building, gossip, rumor-spreading, exclusion, betrayal, silent treatments, eye-rolling and dirty looks, name-calling, mean laughs, boyfriend stealing, cyber-bullying, and other covert behaviors.
Indirect aggression is most commonly associated with girls because society expects them to fulfill the ideals of femininity—to be sweet, nice, proper, and non-confrontational—and often fails to provide effective pathways that allow girls to express anger, competitiveness, frustration, annoyance, envy, embarrassment, disappointment, etc. For that reason, it is Triumph’s desire and purpose to identify this issue and intervene.
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