BULLYING AND EMPATHY IN SCHOOL AND IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

One of the traumatic experiences in childhood and adolescence is "bullying" behaviors. Bullying behaviors of various types (verbal, physical, emotional, racist, hiding, behavior disrupting, taking/destroying something belonging to someone else and sexual) seen at school and in virtual environments adversely affect the social, emotional and psychological development of children and adolescents. and cause legal problems.
These negative effects of bullying behaviors are not limited to childhood and adolescence, but it is seen that they negatively affect important personality traits such as self-esteem, self-confidence, psychological resilience, psychological well-being and feelings of love, respect, tolerance and trust in bilateral human relations.
In this work, the types, causes and consequences of bullying behavior, which is an important obstacle to individual development and positive bilateral human relations, are discussed in detail, and a model for the prevention of these behaviors with empathic skills is presented. With this book, besides academicians and practitioners (school psychological counselor, child and adolescent psychologist, classroom guidance teacher) who will work on bullying; It is aimed to help school administrators, branch teachers and parents develop awareness about the types, causes and consequences of bullying behavior.