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Miguel jokes that AEPAE has always been a team, which is a team, a team, a team. At the beginning there were three of us, but there have always been many people from other places and disciplines. Barcelona was one of the first delegations, along with Malaga. From the beginning we were contacted by other types of profiles: psychologists, psychopedagogues, psychiatrists, theatre teachers, because they wanted to train with that methodology. We asked for three basic profiles: a clinical psychologist, always with experience with adolescent children, a drama teacher, also with experience with children and adolescents, and a self-defence teacher with non-contact martial arts.

The message that is given to a child is not to “hit” him, but to defend himself in an assertive manner. Each one of us is very expert in his area, so we filter the profiles to form the teams. There are other complementary profiles, but these three profiles are essential because they are the ones who do the work with the victims, which is the most delicate part. Today we are 17 delegations.

On the subject of financing, how do you organize yourselves?
What matters to us is the children. We understand that AEPAE does not have public support today because we get to the bottom of the issue and we are not going to hide, minimize or make things invisible. We understand that bullying will always exist, even with the best national plan there is, there will always be bullying and whoever says otherwise does not know what bullying is. Of course, if there is a good plan, if there is good training, if an incidence test is passed, if, if the victims are empowered, if the bullies are reduced, then all of that will make any case of bullying be resolved much faster and the damage will be less.

AEPAE has not come out of a politician's office, nor from the office of a very studious psychologist, nor even from a copy and paste of a foreign plan like the Kiva plan of Finland, but it has emerged from daily experience day after day, with almost 5000 victims, so we know perfectly well what is necessary and we even know what works and what does not work. This problem has been exploding in a very virulent way for a few months now and this is going to explode in the face of the system . Yes, now there is more social pressure, but I don't know... is it necessary for a media disaster to make politicians afraid of this social pressure? Well, in school bullying, even when children die, there is no one who takes that step. Or they do something small and they do it so that it seems that something is being done, but knowing that in the end that is just another patch that does not solve the problem.

What is your view on the impact of social media on the problem of bullying in children?
I would first make a distinction between cyberbullying and cyberbullying, which is sometimes used in a very generic way. Cyberbullying can be by an adult towards a child, an adult towards another adult, etc., through the networks. Cyberbullying has a different component, because that child will encounter him (the bully) at school for seven hours a day . Our experience tell canadian ceo email database s us that there are almost no cases in which cyberbullying is something unrelated to bullying. Cyberbullying is either the beginning of bullying because there has been a photo, a profile, a comment and from there the focus is on that child, or it can be the opposite, that a boy or girl is bullied in his or her presence and from there it moves to the digital environment. Bullying should never be approached separately from bullying.

You are mentioning very early ages, do you think that since the use of social networks has existed, it has become more widespread and has reached much further?
Without a doubt, because it's easier. You don't have to have the guy you're making fun of in front of you anymore.

There are three things that influence the damage. One is the frequency, another is the intensity and another is the resilience of the child. In other words, when we talk about cyberbullying, there is more frequency and there is more intensity, which multiplies the damage exponentially. And then, of course, the child himself influences this. There are children who manage it quite well for a while, but as that glass is filled when it reaches the limit, it overflows and breaks. There is a turning point in which that intensity caused by cyberbullyig multiplies the damage . And it is when that glass that has been filled little by little, suddenly the cyberbullying has the effect of a fountain and the glass finally overflows and breaks.