It consists of both physical
and verbal assaults between peers of similar age within the school environment
in order to intimidate and impose its own will on another person. He is
commonly called with the word bullying.
An estimated 2% of Spanish students suffer a situation
of bullying usually and 6% of any form. The increased concern about the issue
in 2004 when there was the suicide of a 14-year-old not endured over the
situation of suffering harassment.
Features
This is an aggressive behavior and threatening
a person or group of persons exercising on the other perceived weaker, which
dominate and intimidate.
Harassment may involve assaults, insults, threats,
ridicule or even sexual harassment. It is not a simple brawl or isolated event
but is composed of many different nature repeated attacks assiduously over time.
The harasser is often a child aggressive
behavior and the victim retracted a person who does not face the situation or
communicate at home or at school.
Usually, in addition to the attacks, there are continuing
threats ranging bullied and anxiety increasingly the victim, which
sometimes may suffer serious consequences such as depression.
How to act in case of bullying
One of the main difficulties in achieving the act is aware
of the problem because of fear, shame or whatever many kids do not have in
their homes.
The main way to know is to observe these
behaviors to children and maintain a relationship as smooth as possible
with him. The evidence may be a change of mood, lack of social relations, fear
of going to school, anxiety or depression.
If it is suspected that there is harassment is
necessary to investigate the situation, make the slightest feel
sheltered and protected, as well as putting the facts known to the leadership
of professor or college to act accordingly.
Harasser school
The individual who performs such actions is usually aggressive
and lack of skills in conflict resolution. In many cases their attitude comes
from the existence of serious problems in their personal lives such as family
maltreatment.
The aggressiveness can also be due to other reasons
such as racism, the desire to dominate others or any kind of prejudice
against a particular person.
Victim of bullying
They are often children fragile, sensitive, which does
not face her attacker and not socially integrated. They are easy targets
for the harasser to not offer many obstacles.
One difficulty for help is often ignorance of the
problem in their environment. This is because the attitude of these children is
usually to hide the facts that befall and feelings of fear or anxiety
that may suffer.
Aid in case of harassment
Both the victim and the harasser need help, it is
necessary to find out why this happens and prevent further by a path that can
lead to crime.
If bullying became criminal behavior, in addition to
the school authorities would need to resort to the police or the Juvenile
Court.
Normally among professionals is to be going are psychologists.
The goal is to eliminate aggressive behavior of harasser and teach other means
of conflict resolution.
In the case of the victim counseling may be needed for
treatment of possible depression or anxiety caused by the suffering of
psychological harassment and / or physical violence.
Bullying
This common term used to refer to physical and verbal
violence in the classroom was coined in the seventies. In this era began
studies on this phenomenon in the Nordic and Anglo-Saxon.
One of the first and perhaps most important scholar of
the subject is Dan Olweus, a professor of psychology at the University
of Bergen (Norway), who in their publications and preventive programs stresses
the importance of involvement in the problem of adults.
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