Dieter Wolke: "Important developmental influences have been ignored" : Escap 2017 keynote lecture on long-term effects of bullying

Bullying is an underestimated threat to mental health. And it will stay that way as long as therapists do not understand how bullies tick and why the victims keep silent. Professor Dieter Wolke (University of Warwick, UK) is doing research on the subject.

As a keynote speaker at the ESCAP 2017 Congress, he will explain how serious an issue bullying is, outline the differences in emotional reception between pure victims and bully-victims, and discuss the different cognitive biases and how the problem can be addressed in interventions.

Dieter Wolke: "I started this research not expecting much. But the more I researched, the more astonished I became about how strong the effect of bullying can be."