Intervention proposal to stop bullying

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Bullying is a specific type of violence that happens in education and has a great social impact. There are multiple risk factors that contribute to harassment being produced at school. Although experts recommend tackling the problem from a psychosocial and systemic perspective, educational institutions tend to take action by just dealing with the personal issues that lead bullies to have such behavior. Therefore, actions that help stop bullying have to be optimized. Although there are different mechanisms and tools to prevent bullying behavior, schools do not count on so many means to prevent that kind of behavior from happening. The aim of the present research is to analyze the actions which are carried out in order to stop harassment at school and design a specific procedure to tackle and give an answer to the problem. A research-action qualitative methodology has been used, in which  the interventions carried out to stop bullying behavior have been categorized. By analyzing the outcome of the investigation, we can work out a procedure which is sequenced in phases. This proposal is valid to take action on harassers due to the fact that it will prevent bullying behavior from happening.