Bullying refers to unprovoked physical or psychological abuse of an individual by one student or a group of students over time to create an ongoing pattern of harassment and abuse. Bullying includes direct behaviors such as teasing, threatening, and hitting, as well as indirect behaviors such as causing a student to be socially isolated by spreading rumors. Students are bullied at school for a variety of reasons. The act of bullying has both short-term and long-term implications for victims, perpetrators, and bullies. Bullying is an example of externalizing behavior that demands the attention of educators and publics. This paper provides a theoretical context by discussing ecological perspective as a framework for school social work practice, roles, and tasks of school social workers and other professional support staff. School social workers are who not only provide student-focused interventions, for example, to provide clinical services to individual student and their families, but also have the knowledge and expertise to function effectively in the system-focused prevention programs, and to implement interventions designed to target larger systems, such as classrooms, school, neighborhoods, and communities for change. School social workers integrate ecological perspective, strength perspective, empowerment approach, and cognitive-behavior theory into providing effective interventions to minimize bullying, as well as other externalizing behaviors, and focus their interventions on changing or modifying the culture and climate of a school so that schools become safe places for all children and youth.