JOCURILE TEATRALE ÎN COMBATEREA FENOMENULUI DE BULLYING
THEATER GAMES IN COMBATING THE BULLYING PHENOMENON

Summary/Abstract: Children have always been abused within their families, in their group of friends but especially in school. These environments should represent for the growing child an oasis of safety and stability, ideal for defining their personality. This phenomena, known as bullying, has the tendency to increase in intensity as time goes by the subject. The act of agression may turn into a wide variety of forms of violence and may lead to severe anxiety and depression episodes or even suicide. Children do not admit their hardship to their parents who, in turn, are ignorant to the phenomena. As a consequence, the victims of bullying lack the support they need, this having an effect on their present and long term behaviour, respectively on the process of reaching adulthood. Being aware of the crucial role acting played in my development I wish to emphasize the benefits of expanding its application from just a mere form of art to something more. My aim is to counter the bullying phenomena through theatrical games applied on a problematic group from within a designated environment (10 secondary school students with ages between 10 and 11) and also by using the techniques studied within the Master of Art-therapy Programme. I strongly believe that the power of acting and theatrical games, used in a proficient and structured manner has the ability to solve certain problems and eventually make the world a better place.

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