Influence of psychotraumatical factors of the educational environment on children
https://doi.org/10.46563/1560-9561-2025-28-2-155-159
EDN: zorxbd
Abstract
Unfavourable conditions of the educational environment, such as pedagogical violence, victimization, and psychological trauma, can have a significant impact on the mental and physical health both in schoolchildren and teachers, which determines the relevance of the lecture topic. The purpose is to determine the impact of adverse educational environment conditions on the behaviour and health in children. The lecture used own data and databases: RSCI, PubMed, Google Scholar. The concepts of psychological safety in students and traumatic factors in school that contribute to the development of stress and traumatic experiences are defined. Such adverse factors include pedagogical violence, bullying, didactogeny (forced and derogatory attitude towards students), as well as an inadequate climate in an educational institution, a significant impact of violations of the school climate and the teacher-student relationship on the mental and physical health in students has been established. It is proposed to combine the efforts of specialists from different fields to develop preventive measures to prevent adverse phenomena in educational institutions.
Contributions:
Ganuzin V.M. — concept and design of the study, preparation of material and writing of the text, editing of the text, approval of the final version of the article.
Acknowledgment. The study had no sponsorship.
Conflict of interest. The author declares no conflict of interest.
Received: February 26, 2025
Accepted: March 18, 2025
Published: April 29, 2025
About the Author
Valery M. GanuzinRussian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Med.), Associate prof., Department of pediatrics, Institute of Postgraduate Education, Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, 150000, Russian Federation
e-mail: vganuzin@rambler.ru
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For citations:
Ganuzin V.M. Influence of psychotraumatical factors of the educational environment on children. Russian Pediatric Journal. 2025;28(2):155-159. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46563/1560-9561-2025-28-2-155-159. EDN: zorxbd