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Kremena Koutsoukou

Throughout the last few years violence among underage children in schools is increasing and in terms of social importance this problem can be compared to unemployment, said the famous psychologist Professor Klimis Navridis. The school can play an important role in getting hold of aggression among students. According to the famous scientist, the state needs to support teachers and even though it is doing it already, it needs to be more systematic.

Teachers need to be trained on individual basis and need to become coordinators and leaders. Support is needed from institutions and from the school management but extremely important for teachers is to discuss among themselves what happens in the classroom. In a lecture in Megaro Mouzikis the famous psychologist laid the main periods and explained the process of aggression development in children. During his speech once more he stressed on the important role of teachers.

During the so-called hidden period, which is between 5 and ten years, the child forms his/hers alter ego. The child becomes part of a group for the first time and educators need to support him/her during this hard period of establishing the alter ego. In this age children hardly admit their mistakes, because for them the alter ego is a foreign body. They are learning to learn and collectivity in kindergarten and primary school is fundamental.

During puberty teenagers can hardly handle all the aggression inside them. The main reason for this are the biological changes. This is the period during which the youngster gets out of the family and the value system to which he/she is going to, is much different than the one he/she belonged to until now. The teenager is turning more and more into “something,” which will take elements from the parents but also from outside the family. During this period youngsters have hard time verbally expressing themselves and this is the reason why they do it in action. The actions lay the grounds of communication and people should be able to “read” the aggressive messages correctly. Youngsters depersonalize everyone – their classmates, parents and teachers. Parents need to be very patients because the teenager is tolerant only towards his friends.

Klimis Navridis is a Psychology professor in University of Athens. He is working as a psychotherapist to adults and as a group analyzer and he is also member of the Greek Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Organization and of the Greek Family Treatment Group Analysis Organization. Mr. Navridis is author of many psychology and psychoanalysis works, among which are “Clinical social psychology,” “Group psychology,” and “Clinical psychodynamic approach”. He is member of many science organizations in Greece and abroad and from 2001 until 2005 he was science director of Psychology magazine of the Greek Psychology Organization.