Bullying in Schools

Bullying is a widespread problem in schools. This book provides current explanations for the phenomenon of bullying in schools. It is shown that bullying does not only take place between victims and perpetrators, but that usually all members of a school class can be involved. Accordingly, it is described what consequences bullying can have for all those involved. Secondly, general prevention and intervention approaches are described and eleven anti-bullying programs are presented in detail. A special focus of the book is on bullying aftercare concepts as well as practice-related digressions by proven experts. The content - Causes of bullying - Parties involved - Consequences of bullying - Prevention and intervention - Anti-bullying programs - Bullying aftercare The target groups - School psychologists - Teachers - School administrators - School psychology services Persons involved in the training and further education of teachers, psychologists, pedagogues The editors Dr. Matthias Böhmer, graduate psychologist, scientific activities at several universities, since 2008 at the University of Luxembourg, research in the field of empirical educational research as well as on REBT. Dr. Georges Steffgen, Professor of Social and Work Psychology at the University of Luxembourg since 2003, graduate psychologist, research on aggression, emotion regulation and health promotion. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.