Know them types of school bullying most common suffered by children and adolescents is extremely important to learn how to prevent them and make young people have a good quality of life.
Bullying can manifest itself in many different ways among the peer group. From kicks, shoves, threats to rumors and hurtful notes in order to convince others not to interact with him or her.
We are always talking about a minor being a victim of bullying by their peers in the educational center they attend. But how many types are there and what does each one consist of? Next we are going to explain the different ways in which bullying towards a minor can be manifested.
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It is understood that someone is socially excluded by their group of "friends" when they are not allowed to belong to it intentionally. Some forms of social exclusion are:
We talk about isolating a partner when he is intentionally ignored by the group.
An example can be when they are playing volleyball and nobody throws the ball at him no matter what he asks for it, and they even leave it in a part of the field alone while others play.
It can be a trigger for the previous one, since the group will try by all means to ignore it and not to participate because they do not consider it as valid.
On many occasions I have seen in the centers how the boy who was worse dressed or the one who did not have all the material was ignored.
We understand by verbal aggression, all that damage that the aggressors and their assistants are capable of doing to the victim with the help of the word. Some examples are:
We have all had a classmate who has been more chubby than usual and for that fact they have nicknamed or insulted him. "Foca", "zampabollos", "michelin" are some examples of this..
Following this example, verbal aggression would be occurring when, in addition to insulting him, we also insult his family. "Well, your father sure eats a whale every day, he is another fat man like you", "he lays on the bed and sinks it".
These offenses, as we have indicated above, may be based on their physical characteristics, their school performance or even their way of acting..
A clear example would be to call a colleague "four eyes" or "spectacles" for the fact of wearing glasses. Another example might be, when someone is labeled a "nerd" because of their performance..
This is one of the most common today, some aggressors often make up stories or label the victim as homosexual in order to begin their psychological abuse.
Indirect physical aggression is understood as those actions that the aggressors carry out manually, which can affect the life of the victim without physical contact with the victim. We can classify it in:
We understand by physical aggression all those actions that involve hurting the other person through body-to-body contact. They may be:
Threat is understood to be the announcement of some evil or negative action against a person. There are different ways to threaten:
These situations are usually something normal within bullying against victims. And even to other people around them with the intention of preventing them from giving some information about what happens to an adult. An example could be: "if you say something to the teacher, I'll kill you".
They may also threaten simply by creating fear in their victim in order to get them to obey them. As for example: "If you pass by, I will hit you".
Thanks to this system, the aggressors can make the victim do what they want at all times, these blackmails can be of the type: "if you don't give me your sandwich, I'll wait for you when I leave school".
Sexual harassment is understood to be those activities aimed at requesting sexual favors from another person against their consent..
They can range from verbal assaults to touching or physical assaults and rapes. Normally this type of harassment tends to occur more in girls than in boys when the aggressor is male.
With the arrival of new technologies we can also find cases of cyberbullying in schools. This type can be considered one of the most damaging on a psychological level due to the great scope it can have.
They can use all kinds of devices such as tablets, computers, web pages and blogs, online games ... The messages that they can transmit are made with the aim of humiliating the person, so they can hang manipulated photographs, post bad messages ...
These abuses can vary according to the sex of the victim. If it is a boy, the most frequent will be that the harassment consists of insults, nicknames, exclusion from activities and that they talk about evil behind their back, hide their things, hit them (this happens more frequently in the first year of secondary school) and to a much lesser extent they will threaten you.
If the victim is a girl, they are more likely to speak ill behind her back and ignore her. In the worst case scenario, you may be the victim of sexual harassment.
Strictly speaking, mobbing would not have a place in this list since it is a type of abuse that occurs in the workplace and not in school. However, the connections can be very fine between bullying and mobbing..
For example, there are some training cycles or specific subjects in which the student has to do an internship in a job to finish their studies. In these cases, it may coincide with classmates who also abuse during these work practices.
In turn, one of the most common types of mobbing is that of ascending harassment. This comes to mean that a person with a certain hierarchy is harassed by one or more people of a lower rank than his. This is applicable to the teacher-student relationship.
Different types of people participate in a bullying case, such as:
They are characterized because they manifest a high degree of anxiety and are generally insecure, cautious, sensitive and calm. They usually have low self-esteem and a negative image of themselves.
They tend to see themselves as failures and feel inferior, ashamed, and unattractive. They are often smaller and physically weaker than their peers. In general, they develop attitudes of fear of school considering it an unsafe place and from which they extract unhappiness.
They have a more permissive attitude towards violence or the use of violent means to dominate others. They have a strong desire for power and domination. They have little or no empathy for the victims.
If they are boys, they are more likely to be stronger than other children in general or than their victims, not only physically but also socially or in their school performance.
They seem to enjoy being "in control" and overpowering others. They want to have social influence and prestige. When they succeed, their intimidating attitude is rewarded, the same as when they coercively obtain material goods from their victims.
Schoolchildren who become bullies also have more defiant and rebellious behaviors towards adults and tend to contradict school rules.
They can be divided into:
It seems, in my experience, that all bullies have something in common that makes them follow the same pattern of conduct and behavior:
These four factors are what I have been able to see and understand as causing the aggressive attitude of these children. It is clear that the attitude that parents have towards their child is decisive for the subsequent well-being and physical and mental development of the child, as well as growing up in an environment marked by rules and regulations..
Bullying can have negative consequences for all its participants:
From my point of view, the victim is the one who suffers the most. Their personality as well as their socialization and mental health can be negatively affected by bullying. On the other hand, some people even fall into depression or develop school phobia. We have also seen cases of suicide attempt and depression.
The aggressors can also be considered victims, since their way of acting is a response to the affective deficiencies they present. This type of response can become something chronic and mechanical to achieve goals and objectives, even triggering criminal behaviors such as domestic violence.
People who see what is happening and do not pay attention, thus taking a passive attitude towards this type of abuse, may come to see this type of act as something normal..
These consequences also affect parents and family members, since no one can remain neutral in the face of the aggression suffered by their child, youngster or adolescent. In most cases, parents feel invaded by fear.
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