The Family and Children's Prosecution has identified four reasons for bullying and nine signs of exposing the child to bullying, stressing that bullying in the UAE schools is an individual behavior and not a phenomenon, as it has not considered any bullying case. And reaction.
The head of the Family and Children's Office, Alia Al-Kaabi, told the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) that the World Health Organization (WHO), during 2016-2017, Conducted a survey of all public and private schools, including 6,000 students aged between 13 and 18, which resulted in the development of some awareness programs and efforts to combat bullying behavior, including the launch of a national committee to prevent bullying and awareness campaigns targeting students, teachers and parents. That the results of the survey did not reach the prosecution.
Al-Kaabi explained that bullying is a form of violence, physical abuse and abuse that is directed from an individual or group of individuals to an individual or group of individuals, where the attacking individual is stronger than the remaining individuals, indicating that it is a frequent aggressive behavior, Another intentionally, physically or psychologically, is intended to gain power at the expense of someone else.
"There are four reasons for bullying, including addiction to aggressive behaviors, personality disorder, lack of self-esteem, depression and mental illness, and the habit of violent electronic games," she said. The destruction of what he has, with regard to the second type of verbal bullying, which is to utter offensive words to the person, or bad names, and ridicule or threaten.
Al-Kaabi identified nine signs that reveal the child's exposure to bullying, including the frequent withdrawal of the child from his favorite activities, keeping him away from his friends or any gatherings, neglecting his school duties, seeking to escape from the reality he lives, Fear, and his temperamental mood, and the concealment of tools to protect himself in school, such as knives, in addition to the presence of some bruises and cuts on his body.
She pointed out that the treatment of bullying includes several axes, including family therapy, where the family is the first environment affecting the behavior of the child, and to be effective family intervention must be Troy and not to hurry to judge the behavior of the child and described Almtmr before the clear vision, In all cases, if the child bullying is proved, it should be discussed calmly and rationally. He should ask him about the reasons that lead him to this approach and clarify the seriousness of this behavior. Parents must not make excuses for the child and justify his actions, especially in front of teachers and colleagues.
Al-Kaabi pointed out that the second axis of school treatment, through the best dealing with bullying school through the development of a broad school program, so that the goal of this program is to change the school culture, and to confirm mutual respect, and the elimination of bullying, and prevent the emergence.
In order to be effective, the program should include educating teachers, parents and students about the behavior and seriousness of bullying and increasing the monitoring and vigilance of early monitoring of cases of bullying and the development of remedial programs for adolescents in partnership with psychologists and organizing parallel activities to develop self-confidence, Self-esteem and self-esteem.
She stressed that bullying school in the UAE is an individual behavior and not a phenomenon, resulting from the act and reaction, and whenever the child got the warmth and safety in the family was away from resorting to bullying, and it is not enough to teach the importance of apologizing when he makes mistakes once this application in front of him at home When dealing with others, in addition to the direct criticism of the child, and direct the words of ridicule on a continuous basis, leading to the weakness of self-confidence, and exposing him to be easy prey to the Almtmrn.
Al-Kaabi stressed the importance of the language of family dialogue to strengthen the psychological immunity of the child, and to give him room for the ability to express and get rid of negative feelings correctly, without resorting to emptying his emotions hostile to others, with the need to teach children to treat people as they like to be treated, That the abused child may resort to the opposite of what he learned from violence at home to hostile behavior behind the walls of the school.
Role of Family and Child Prosecution
The head of the Family and Children's Office, Alia Al-Kaabi, pointed out that bullying in schools is deliberate negative acts by one or more pupils to harm another student, which is repeated over time. These negative acts can be words such as threatening, reprimanding or insulting , And may be physical friction such as beating, pushing and kicking, with intent to deliberately isolate him from the group or refuse to respond to his desire.
She stressed that the prosecution plays an important role in confronting bullying behavior, including lectures on the behavior of students in schools, awareness programs for parents, dissemination of legal and behavioral awareness through councils, participation of the prosecution in national campaigns to prevent bullying, Treatment of the growing and growing child, through a psychologist and social, in addition to the production of special films, to prevent bullying exposure in the media.
Family dialogue strengthens the child's psychological immunity and prevents him from emptying his emotions in an aggressive manner.