Estrategias psicoeducativas cognitivo-conductual para desarrollar habilidades sociales en la resolución de conflictos

Abstract

Bullying is an aggressive situation currently occurring in primary schools in our city. This is the reason why our research work aims to reduce it through the development of social skills for children, so that they can resolve their conflicts assertively, not violently.

Since this behavior was evident, our main goal was to validate psychoeducational and cognitive behavioral strategies to provide teachers guidelines to intervene in cases of bullying; we conducted our research work with the students of the fifth grade of Atenas del Ecuador primary school. This school is part of the Bullying Research Project of the College of Psychology, University of Cuenca.

This research process shows a qualitative and quantitative approach with a cross section. A control group and a study group were generated for this purpose. Some of the instruments used were the following: a questionnaire for teachers, to identify the interaction of children in the classroom, the existence of conflicts, and the way teachers usually intervene; the initial questionnaire about the conditions of school life; an observation guide in all the areas of the school, and the questionnaire about progress of the school life project.