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SuEllen Fried is an American
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prevention activist, writer and educator. She was number 900 on
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foundation list in 1993.


Early life and education

Born SuEllen Weissman on September 18, 1932 in
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,
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. She graduated from University City High School in
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in 1950. She studied at
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, where she was a member of
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. She earned a B.A. from
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, in
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in 1975 and an M.A. equivalency from the '' American Dance Therapy Association'' in 1996.


Career

Fried was a member of the Dance Ensemble of the
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from 1949 through 1951. She also appeared in a party scene in Kansas City native Robert Altman's 1957 film '' The Delinquents''. Fried worked as a dance therapist for twenty years, and from 1961 to 1978, Fried was a volunteer dance and drama therapist at Osawatomie State Hospital in Kansas. In 1970 was appointed to President Richard Nixon's ''Task Force on the Mentally Handicapped''. She was a consultant to the ''National Institute of Mental Health'' as well as the ''Center for Advanced Study and Continuing Education in Mental Health''. Fried's work with Dr. Karl Menninger led her to found STOP Violence in 1982, an organization that developed a program called ''Reaching Out From Within''. This monthly program trained volunteers to teach prison inmates to change their violent language, actions and thoughts. As of 2004, it ran ten programs in seven Kansas Correctional facilities. The program has been effective, recording much lower recidivism rates among program participants than non-participating inmates. From a ''
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'' profile of Fried and Reaching Out From Within:—


Abuse prevention work

Fried draws upon her dance therapy experience in her abuse prevention program, helping teach body awareness and how to adjust to others. Fried's seven "prevention principles" were defined in her book ''Bullies and Victims'', and given the acronym SCRAPES: * Self-esteem and skill enrichment * Conflict resolution and mediation skills * Respect for differences * Anger management and assertiveness training * Problem solving skills * Empathy training * Sexuality awareness training. Her books are intended for parents of children who have been bullied as well as those whose children may be bullies. She and her co-authors attempt to offer practical suggestions for minimizing peer abuse, to teach about the harm caused by gossip and name-calling and to prevent an escalation to violence. In 2002, Fried founded BullySafeUSA, which has enabled her to work with more than 90,000 students, educators, councilors, administrators and parents in 36 states Additionally, she and her organization are working to help reduce cyber-bullying on social networking sites and web pages.


Books

* ''Bullies & Victims: Helping Your Children Through the Schoolyard Battlefield'' - 1996 (co-author Paula Fried, Ph. D) * ''Bullies, Targets, and Witnesses: Helping Children Break the Pain Chain'' - 2004 (co-author Paula Fried, Ph. D) * ''Banishing Bullying Behavior: Transforming the Culture of Pain, Rage and Revenge'' - 2009 (co-author Blanche Sosland, Ph. D) * ''Banishing Bullying Behavior: Transforming the Culture of Peer Abuse'' - 2011 (revised second edition) (co-author Blanche Sosland, Ph. D) * ''30 Activities for Getting Better At Getting Along'' - 2011 (co-author Lynne Lang)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fried, SuEllen 1932 births Living people Anti-bullying activists American social psychologists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Washington University in St. Louis alumni Park University alumni