An Exploration of SETA in Cyber Bullying to Reduce Social Harm & Juvenile Suicide

Cyberbullying is direct action harassment that negatively impacts everyone involved. As a societal concern, cyber-attacks and cyberbullying as a threat remains largely unsolved. Due to the challenging nature of the growing intersectionality between perpetrators, victims, and society, cyberbullying disproportionately affects marginalized individuals and adolescent age children, and continues to have a detrimental impact on juvenile victims, their friends, families, and academic institutions. As a threat, cyberbullying has become weaponized by attackers to target and inflict maximum pain and suffering on victims based on a variety on individualistic differences, including varying social identities, race, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, and social status. To ensure attack success, the bully in a cyber-attack (cyberbullying) will introduce a series of prolonged, continuous procession of abuse designed to inflict adverse effects on the physical, psychological, and mental health of the victim.Long-term abuse suffered as a direct result of a cyberbullying attack has led to irreparable mental health concerns, challenges in classroom and work activities, victim self-harm, and tragically suicide, regardless of victim age. This unfortunate realization highlights the need for more work to be done to protect our youth. Moreover, the continued misidentification, misclassification, and incorrect definition of what is a cyberbullying attack has led to inadequate and inefficient implementation of effective training solutions and prevention policies to designed to combat cyberbullying concerns, leading to a significant negative impact on victims' overall mental health, well-being, and quality of life.