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Responsabilidad Afectiva Adolescentes Menores

Valentine's Day. The importance of emotional responsibility in adolescents (and not so adolescents).

What does Affective Responsibility mean? Emotional responsibility consists of being responsible for the consequences of our actions with respect to others, it implies understanding that, whenever two people are linked, they acquire the commitment to care for and respect the feelings of the other. In general terms, emotional responsibility is not a quality… Read more

Jose trujillo

How is mediation used to stop bullying?

Violence is any act that, by action or omission, causes or may cause harm. Within this phenomenon we find bullying defined in 1970 by Olweus, who indicated that a student is harassed or victimized when he is repeatedly exposed to negative actions by one or more students, without the ability or effective tools to be able to defend himself.