Bullying in Schools and Intervention Methods

Bullying in schools is a manifestation of violence through abuse and harassment of some students. A non-serious attitude towards this issue, considering it only as part of growing up and not a threat, leads to significant harm to children and, in the most severe cases, – their deaths (Center for Violence Prevention, 2020). For some children, the experience of bullying becomes so harrowing that they cannot cope with it and the accompanying feelings. The problem is socio-psychological in nature, and it is essential to fight and prevent it. It is necessary to explore the causes of bullying and the behavior of victims and aggressors to create a basis for interventions in the problem. Despite the strong roots of bullying found in the psychological features of adolescents’ behavior and some social beliefs embedded in the school context, teachers and parents can help solve the problem by applying intervention methods.