Anti-bullying intervention as a strategy to promote well-being and resilience – Wed 24 February 2021 – Online Resilience Forum

Topic  Anti-bullying programme as a strategy to promote well-being and resilience – Grazielli Fernandes

Date  Wednesday 24 February 2021

Time 16:00 – 17:30

Location Online (please arrive in the online platform 5 minutes prior)

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Session Summary 
Some children and young people are exposed to adversities that compromise their cognitive and emotional development. One of these adversities is bullying, it is considered a risk factor that provokes damages of different intensities and may last for long periods of time. To be protective, the school must become a consistent support network and build strategies to neutralize bullying situations. This can be effective by enabling students to confront, overcome and transform their difficulties expressing resilience, personal and group strengthening. Taking these ideas into account, a Bullying Intervention Programme based on Positive Psychology was developed in in a public school setting in Brazil. Named #NoBullying, the programme aimed to encourage students to become social actors and multipliers to prevent bullying. The basis of this positive intervention was the individual’s positive experiences and their traits or characteristics that could foster collective and subjective resilience, with final results of the well-being of communities at risk situations.

Presenters 
Grazielli is a PhD student in Education at La Salle University (Brazil) (Capes scholarship).
Débora is a Psychologist and professor at La Salle University.
Maria Angela is a Psychologist and professor at Salgado de Oliveira University.

Biography 
Grazielli is a primary school teacher in Brazil and a PhD student in Education at La Salle University (Capes scholarship). Since 2011, she has been developing anti-violence activities with vulnerable young people in school. Her current research interests include bullying, anti-bullying programs, domestic violence, Positive Psychology, and resilience.

Who might be most interested  
Teachers, academics, practitioners, researchers, students, carers, community workers, young people.

Useful reading

Hart, A., Gagnon, E., Eryigit-Madzwamuse, S., Cameron, J., Aranda, J. Rathbone, A., & Heaver, B. (2016). Uniting Resilience Research and Practice With an Inequalities Approach. SAGE Open, 6(4), 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2158244016682477

Olweus, D. (1993). Bullying at school. Oxford USA: Blackwell Publishing.

Olweus, D., & Limber, S. P. (2010). Bullying in school: evaluation and dissemination of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 80(1), 124-134. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01015.x

Salmivalli, C., & Poskiparta, E. (2012). KiVa Antibullying Program: overview of evaluation studies based on a randomized controlled trial and national rollout in Finland. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 6(2), 294-302. doi: 10.4119/UNIBI/ijcv.247

Seligman, M. E. P., & Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000). Positive Psychology: an introduction. American Psychologist, 55(1), 5-14. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.5

Smith, P. K. (2014). Understanding school bullying: its nature & prevention strategies. London: Sage. 

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