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Rock, paper, scissors

  For my latest post, I wanted to find something special. After some searching, I came across a short film called “Piedra, Papel, Tijeras” uploaded to the YouTube channel of Nuria Sánchez Romanos, a professional who focuses on training socio-emotional skills. According to the description, the original video comes from an Android campaign from 2019, although I haven’t been able to find the original source. The short lasts just one minute and portrays several cases of bullying. What stands out is that the characters support one another. You can recognize the classic roles of aggressor, victim, and bystander. Nuria emphasizes the need for children to be exposed to resources like this from an early age, so they can learn empathy, mutual respect, and emotional regulation as tools to prevent violence and build healthy relationships. But it’s not only children who need this, adults also need to train these skills, especially those of us who will become future professionals. Emotional...
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Salutogenic approach and a personal opinion

  As I briefly mentioned in my previous post, on the website called PDA Bullying , among various resources, there is a section dedicated to explain the Salutogenic approach . After doing some research, it becomes clear that this approach gets its name because its main goal is to promote health and well-being . The platform aims to address bullying from this perspective, adopting a strength-based approach that focuses on individuals' potential and the creation of a cooperative community working toward a shared goal . It slightly reminds me of the No Blame Approach we studied in class, as it also refers to a method based on compassion and a solution-focused outlook , rather than assigning blame. Their aim is not simply to act against bullying, but rather to overcome it , moving beyond a simplistic understanding of bullying as just a dynamic between two individuals. Instead, they view it as a broader social process . For this reason, the protocol designed and implemented by...
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Brian Giner and PDA Bullying platform

  Following my last post, where I talked about the documentary Acoso Escolar from ARTE.tv, I caught my attention the figure of Brian Giner, so I decided to look into his book Golpeado pero no derrotado It’s a work for all ages in which he shares his personal experience during his school years. The author emphasizes that the book isn’t just meant for students, but also for parents and professors. Through his story, he hopes to raise awareness about the importance of taking action in cases of bullying. Apart from publishing his book, he also gives talks on bullying prevention to students in the first to third years of ESO in catalan high schools. Based on his own experience, Brian aims to shed light on cases like his so that victims don’t feel alone and can see an example of resilience. While researching his book, I came across a very interesting platform called PDA Bullying . It’s a collaborative initiative involving various institutions aimed at promoting best practices for the...
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When the School Fails: Reflections on the Case of Kira and Educational Responsibility

  Good afternoon! While researching bullying cases in Spain, I came across the case of Kira López, a 15-year-old girl who died by suicide in 2021 in Barcelona. Since today her parents have fought to raise awareness and highlight the inaction of educational institutions in bullying cases. One of the initiatives they supported was the documentary Acoso Escolar by ARTE.tv from 2024, which also features Brian Giner a young man who suffered school bullying for 12 years and later wrote a book titled Golpeado pero no derrotado in order to help prevent more cases. In the documentary, he gives a talk to raise awareness among students at Sant Armengol School in Andorra. The report addresses key topics such as the role of bystanders and the importance of their involvement in stopping bullying. It also discusses the so-called “red zones”, areas where violence is more likely to occur, such as locker rooms and bathrooms. This has sparked debate over whether installing video surveillance in s...
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Gender Differences in Bullying

  Gender Differences in Bullying Bullying is a serious problem that happens in many places with children and teenagers like in school in sports and in summer camps I work as a coach and monitor with boys and girls in these kinds of spaces so this topic is important to me One thing that I see often is that bullying is not always the same for boys and girls boys usually show more physical bullying like hitting pushing or shouting girls usually use more relational bullying like ignoring others spreading lies or leaving someone out of the group this is something that many studies say too For example a study by Villardón Gallego et al says that boys are more likely to be involved in direct and physical bullying while girls show more indirect forms like social exclusion or emotional pressure (Villardón Gallego et al 2021) this means that sometimes bullying by girls is harder to see but it can hurt just as much Also according to the International Journal of Environmental Research an...
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Bullying in formative sports teams

 Bullying in formative sports teams As a coach of a handball team with boys aged twelve thirteen and fourteen I know that sport should be a space for learning friendship and values but I also understand that sometimes inside the team there can be situations of exclusion jokes and emotional abuse which are types of bullying At this age children are still growing and trying to feel part of a group they are sensitive to how others see them and sometimes if a player is different or not very good at handball other players can start making fun of him or ignoring him and this can hurt a lot There is a study from Spain about football that says coaches and parents sometimes see bullying but they think it is only a joke or normal behaviour between kids but it is not normal and we should not ignore it because it can continue and become worse if nobody does anything to stop it Bullying in sport can be when one player is always left out in training or when other kids laugh at someone because...
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Audrie and Daisy (my opinions and way of thinking about it)

In this blog post, I brought you a documentary film mostly about 2 girls, Audrie and Daisy who had been sexually assaulted while being filmed and then cyberbullied. Audrie committed suicide in 2012 after all the things and the case happened to her. Daisy also tried to end her life by suicide multiple times right after the sexual crime and cyberbullying, but she was saved by her family every time (unfortunately in 2020, her attempt was fatal).    In the whole documentary we can meet both girls’ family and friends, talking about the things happened, which gives us a more emotional and devastating way of understanding what a sexual assault and cyberbullying can do to one person.   I do not want to give you spoilers or tell you the whole story; therefore, I would like to end my description here and truly advise you to watch it.     According to the World Health Organization, around 1 in 6 adolescents experience cyberbullying day by day and surprisingly and dev...
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