Guidelines

In order to legislate about and regulate the implementation of programs to prevent and intervene against bullying, it is important to understand the possibilities that each of the groups susceptible of being involved has to act. In this respect, families are a fundamental pillar for an adequate action. Socio-moral education is a key for prevention considering that, although it is mostly developed in the family context, the school may serve to compensate inequalities. For intervention, the collaboration of the families of the victims and the aggressors is essential, so that all of the efforts for re-education go in the same direction. However, even though the relevance of the families is unquestionable, they are the most difficult group to involve - whether individually or in groups. Moreover, the families that are more involved in the schools tend to be those that are already sensitized about the problem. Therefore, policy makers should:

• Know the difficulties to get the families involved.
• Analyze the campaigns of sensitization to cope with bullying.
• Investigate about the existing initiatives to train the families.