Child and adolescent mobbing: how to protect your child?

Teens with Asperger syndrome and autism are at increased risk of being bullied by their peers.

How should a teenager at risk and who has been bullied behave? How can a teenager help himself if he has moved to a new school and started being bullied? How do you prevent bullying in the classroom? How to survive mobbing and bullying without breaking down?

Daria Nevskaya talks about child and adolescent mobbbing/bullying, recommends books for children and teenagers on this topic, and answers questions from the audience. Recording of a live webinar on Instagram organized by “Nachalka-Antistress” in December 2018.

Daria Nevskaya, the creator of mobbingu.net, gave an interview to Novaya Gazeta. Baltic States” in Riga, by writer Maria Boteva. We publish the full article.

My girlfriend and I were going to school, and the jerk was following us. He was two years younger, scary and nasty. We first giggled and then started joking loudly about his squeaky voice and gait. The freak started shouting curses, and we snapped boldly and decisively in response. The school gates were won by the winners of the fight. And suddenly a kid jumped up to us a cut lower. He came close to me and hissed, looking me angrily in the eye: “If you still say something offensive to him, I'll hit you! It won't be enough!” I was taken aback by the booger's impudence, but I didn't want to continue the series of winning jokes. The main thing was that it wasn't clear that he was standing up for him so much, he was a freak!

The concept of mobbing was introduced in 1963 by Austrian zoopsychologist Konrad Lorenz. He called mobbing the phenomenon of several small animals attacking a larger enemy. The term became famous after the publication in 1972 of a work by Swedish physician P. Hyneman, who compared children's violent behavior towards their peers with aggressive animal behavior and called it mobbing. In its modern sense, the term was first used by the Swedish researcher of work psychology H. Leyman, who studied the peculiarities of people's behavior in a team in the early 80s of the 20th century.

How to teach your child to create “negative models”, feel danger, avoid dangerous situations, and counteract aggression. How to get out of difficult situations. How to teach girls how to resist violence. And how to establish such a trusting relationship with your child so that he is not afraid to share any of his problems and sorrows with his parents.

An Australian artist drew a comic about harassment in kindergarten, and it turned out that not only victims suffer, but also the offenders themselves. However, the actress also showed how to teach children how to treat each other properly. The Internet believes that the most mature character was a three-year-old girl.