Prevention program against cyberbullying
This prevention program should contain the following components:
- Digital skills, sensitisation
- Critical reflection about the use of media
- Stronger safety measures for online behaviour
- Further education for teachers and educators
- Topic “bullying-cyberbullying” in the learning plan
- Information and cooperation with the parents
- Contact person
- Building trust in order to find contact people easily and in time in case of cyberbullying
- Social-emotional competences
- Promotion of social and emocional skills
- Health education
Schools should consider the following protective factors against the cyberbullying:
- Knowledge
- About media competences (Internet security and online behaviour)
- About forms, scope, effects and also possible countermeasures and coping strategies against cyberbullying on the part of the school and the home environment.
- Environment
- Positive school environment, support from the family and social support from friends
- Open discussion opportunities with teachers, parents and friends
- Skills
- Sufficient social-emotional competences (self-control, self-esteem, perspective taking, empathy, self-confidence, respectful handling of others)
The following instructive and emotional guidelines should be present:
- Development of rules with the pupils: what I can do if I am being bullied.
- Improve the classroom atmosphere
- Esteem for each other learning
- Strengthening self-confidence
- Increasing empathy
- Strengthening the community feeling