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Posts Tagged ‘Mediation-based approaches’

Never encourage bullied children to work things out with the bullies

As school counselors or teachers, or parents, encouraging children who have been bullied to “work things out” with the bullies may make things worse. Particularly not without the supervision of adults or the support of peer mediators. Keep in mind, the bullied child is not at fault. Mediation-based approaches tend to imply that both parties [...]