Friday, May 22, 2015

Bullying cases in schools “much higher than the official” – Journal News

The head of the Center for Research and Social Intervention University Strathmore Institute of Lisbon, was speaking at a seminar on “Strategies and bullying prevention measures and cyberbullying “, held in Lisbon.

” Studies indicate that one in five students are directly involved in some situation . of ‘bullying’, “the numbers of specialized services are much lower and the official statistics even more, said the researcher

He added: 2014 data on safety at school, indicate that cases of ‘bullying’ were 1,446; if we count all school children could say we have 241,000 students (20 percent of the total) involved in these situations.

“If one in five babies are born in need of our help” warned the investigator and Professor, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, ISCTE.

The ‘bullying’ (assault situation, threat or oppression practiced against someone) stressed the responsibility, not only happens in school, but also family context, at work, in the neighborhood and even in the country because “there are countries victims and perpetrators countries.”

In the face of more than a hundred participants, Susana Carvalhosa explained that, so there ‘bullying’, there must be an intention to cause damage, that action be repeated and that there is an imbalance between the aggressor and the victim. In the virtual world, he added, if someone puts, for example, a social network, a humiliating video, though not place any more, is considered ‘cyberbullying’, because each access to video reinforces the offending behavior.

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