"A seminar on bullying" at the Faculty of Specific Education

The Community Service and Environmental Development Sector at the Faculty of Specific Education at Ain Shams University organized a symposium entitled "Bullying" under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of the University, Prof. Dr. Ghada Farouk, Acting Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Dr. Osama El-Sayed, Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Mohamed Farag, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, attended by Prof. Dr. Mona Al-Dahan is a professor of mental health at the Faculty, in the presence of the Faculty Deputies, Faculty Staff, the Teaching assistants, and students.

Prof. Dr. Osama Al-Sayed explained that the symposium aims to introduce the concept of bullying and its problems to schoolchildren, and ways and means to overcome them. His Excellency praised the role played by the Community Service and Environmental Development Affairs Sector at the Faculty, and its influential awareness-raising role in correcting misconceptions and misconceptions among young people and the mechanisms for confronting these ideas and spreading the values ​​of tolerance, love, brotherhood, and cooperation as recommended by the monotheistic religions.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Farag pointed out that these seminars come to contribute to limiting or reducing the phenomenon of bullying, which in turn leads to an increase in the phenomenon of university students dropping out of Faculties, as well as an increase in violent behavior, nerve damage, excessive sleep, decreased or increased appetite, or resorting to drinking alcohol or other drugs.

Prof. Dr. Mona Al-Dahan also spoke about the concept of bullying and that it is a type of violence directed, whether verbal or physical, and what are the factors that helped spread it among students, the most important of which are the factors of family education, modern technology, films that promote violent behavior, and her sovereignty addressed the role of the family, school, and society, in limiting this phenomenon has spread widely in recent times.