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Link to Evelyn's book, Harry the Bully Blocker
https://www.bullying.com.au/harrythebullyblocker/

-School counselor for 50 years
-Mt. Scopus Jewish school in the family for generations
-When her daughters finished at the school she left too, and wrote "Bully Busting" and two books on workplace bullying
-Addressing the lack of practical guidance a school counselor gets on how to deal with cases of bullying
-Explanation of what the DSM 5 is
-Social alienation in the Western world, exacerbated by Corona, mitigated by religion
-The need for kids to learn how to get along with all kinds of people, of all ages
-Evelyn posits that despite all the research on the damage caused by bullying, it's not actually taken seriously by schools or the psychological field
-Izzy posits that it is taken seriously, it's just that schools are being required to do the things that make the problem worse
-Prevalence of Holocaust awareness in Melbourne
-Learning from Netflix series how Chinese, Koreans and Japanese deal with mean people
-The trend in Korea to publicly shame those who bullied you as a kid; devastating to the accused
-Research shows kids who tell the most get picked on the most
-Izzy explains what's so problematic about treating bullying like a legal issue
-Izzy and Evelyn role-play (she calls him a bitch)
-Evelyn posits that Jews (historical victims of extreme tragedies) are plagued less by bullying