Étude qualitative du vécu du harcèlement par les adolescents victimes

Abstract

This research proposes to understand the experiences of 21 teenage victims of harassment with a preventative and therapeutic aim. After the persons involved in the research arrived at a consensus around the definition of harassment, we re-examined the psychological impact and harmful consequences of such violence. Using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) as the approach to the qualitative analysis of the discourse that the research team used to understand the lived experience of harassment, we identified four sub-themes: - internalized violence; - harassment and the questioning of identity; - lack of support; - harassment as enabling possible changes. With these sub-themes in mind, the research group discussed harassment as exposing issues linked to adolescence, which also can be understood as including the inability to contemplate such issues (such as bodily transformations, puberty, relationships with others, etc.). At the end of our discussions we reflected and proposed various tools and approaches that could be used to “mobilize” (maybe stimulate?) symbolization capacity such as the theater of the oppressed or even of family groups.