PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL REALITIES, pages: 61 - 70, 2018

European bullying awareness policies and enabling initiatives

Rezumat: Following a synthetic presentation of the definition of bullying in the context of the current profile literature, as a repeated form of emotional and physical abuse by a person or group of persons as a perpetrator or as a victimized person with negative consequences on victims, the article highlights the status of the phenomenon and its disastrous impact on the physical, mental and social dimension of adolescent personality. There are several issues that are related to the prevalence of the phenomenon at European level and its structuring according to bullying types (physical, emotional, cyberbullying ...), gender and countries. The most extensive chapter presents some initiatives aimed at enhancing awareness and enabling bullying in different European countries, developed in partnership projects.