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Peer Pressure
Peer pressure is among the major sources of bullying, which can turn
otherwise good students into bullies. Very often the child who harasses
another partner quickly is usually surrounded by a band or group of
stalkers which join in a unanimous, gregarious behavior of harassment
against the victim. This is due to the lack of an external authority
(for example, a teacher, relative, etc..) Impose limits on this type of
behavior, projecting an image of the main bully leader about the rest of
their peer followers.
Anti-Bullying
It is estimated that simultaneous intervention on individual, family
and socio-cultural, is the only possible way to prevent bullying.
Prevention can be done at different levels. Primary prevention would be
the responsibility of parents (commitment to a democratic and
authoritarian education) of society as a whole and the media (in the
form of self-regulation for certain content). Secondary prevention or
anti-bullying methods would be to concrete measures on the population at
risk, that is, adolescents (primarily to promote a change in attitude
towards the need to report cases of bullying but do not become victims
of them), and the population directly linked to this, teachers (in the
form of training in appropriate skills for conflict prevention and
resolution of school). Finally, tertiary prevention measures would help
those involved in cases of bullying. Afterschool programs can help
combat bullying. There are a number of youth programs throughout Canada, many of which are in Toronto specifically.
Conflict Resolution
Although the figure of harassment generally open to the concept of
denial of conflict to be an underground abuse (even for the victim, as
she declared war in secret, never openly), perhaps one could speak of
conflict to simplify the approach to the matter. Although conflict may
be a part of life and even an engine of progress, under certain
conditions can lead to violence. To improve, educational coexistence and
violence prevention must be taught to resolve conflicts constructively,
ie, thinking, talking and negotiating. A possible method of conflict
resolution developed in the following steps:
- Properly define the conflict.
- Set goals and what sort of importance.
- Designing possible solutions to conflict.
- Choose the solution that is considered best, and develop a plan to carry it out.
- Implement the chosen solution.
- Assess the results and, if they are not desired, repeat the entire procedure to try to improve them.
A good idea might be to go write the different phases of the process,
to facilitate its implementation. In programs for the prevention of
school violence that are being developed in recent times, including
mediation and negotiation as methods of nonviolent conflict resolution.
Peer pressure is not always bad; bullies can be peer pressured to stop bullying.
