Mobbing and bullying at school

What should parents do if their child is involved in a mobbing/bullying situation? How to involve the school administration in solving the situation of cool mobbing? What are parents entitled to?

In every school community, there are teenagers who bully the weak and outcasts who tolerate it. Sometimes bullying is frightening proportions, jeopardizing not only the child's psyche, but also his physical health.

How to help counselors prevent or overcome bullying in the squad during the summer vacation.

So here's what we can do about it. Of course, the situations are very diverse; these are general principles and steps.

Daria Nevskaya, the creator of mobbingu.net, gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. Baltic States” in Riga, by writer Maria Boteva. We publish the full article.

The concept of mobbing was introduced in 1963 by Austrian zoopsychologist Konrad Lorenz. He called mobbing the phenomenon of several small animals attacking a larger enemy. The term became famous after the publication in 1972 of a work by Swedish physician P. Hyneman, who compared children's violent behavior towards their peers with aggressive animal behavior and called it mobbing. In its modern sense, the term was first used by the Swedish researcher of work psychology H. Leyman, who studied the peculiarities of people's behavior in a team in the early 80s of the 20th century.

How should a teenager at risk and who has been bullied behave? How can a teenager help himself if he has moved to a new school and started being bullied? How do you prevent bullying in the classroom? How to survive mobbing and bullying without breaking down?

Psychologist Lyudmila Petranovskaya spoke in an interview with mobbingu.net about why it is dangerous to ignore bullying among teenagers and how to help a child in situations of mobbing/bullying.