Bullying intervention

As the bully and the victim are embedded in their particular social and environmental contexts, multiple factors influence the social behavioural patterns including individual characteristics, social interactions, cultural and ecological conditions. However teachers form a major influence in the bullying activities. Teachers play a major role in determining whether the children disclose their victimisation. Researches such as done by Atlas and Pepler (1998) have also indicated that students report that teachers do not consistently intervene to stop bullying.

There are a wide range of anti-bullying initiatives that have been developed and implemented for tackling and reducing bullying problems in school. Farrington (1993) categorised intervention programmes into ones that are focussing on the bully, ones on the victim and the ones on the environment as a whole. There are different points of view among the different researchers on the most favoured technique to be adopted. The intervention programs that focus on the bullies are further diverse in nature.