CHILD-VICTIM OF BULLYING AS AN OBJECT OF SOCIAL AND PEDAGOGICAL ASSISTANCE

The article considers the problem of social and pedagogical assistance to children who are victims of bullying. Its purpose is to analyze the content of social and pedagogical assistance to children who are victims of bullying in an educational institution. Different positions on the phenomenon of bullying and bullying structure are presented. Features and characteristics of bullying victims are analyzed. A portrait of a potential victim of bullying is presented through the definition of typical signs of a victim of bullying, emotional background and behavior of victims of bullying. The characteristics of the types of victims of bullying (passive, provocative, chronic), symptoms of bullying, signs of impact on the health of students, the consequences in future adult life. It is determined that assistance to children victims of bullying is an important area of social and pedagogical work, should be comprehensive and multilevel, not limited to work with a child who has become a victim of school bullying. The stages of social and pedagogical assistance are analyzed: diagnostic; individual assistance to students who are victims of bullying; group work, which is based on the system of interaction of students, class teacher, teachers and class, parents of bullies. It was found that social and pedagogical work with victims of bullying should be carried out using both traditional and innovative methods of work: conversations, individual consultations, correctional and developmental classes, group classes with elements of training, communication hours, etc. Because bullying is a deliberate, group, conscious, and organized process, it cannot be stopped without the intervention of professionals (educators, psychologists, social educators) and parents. This involves purposeful anti-bullying work, which requires the involvement of all available resources of the educational institution and the child’s environment.