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Abstract The study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of a positive child rearing program with parents for reducing bullying and incrementing pro-social behavior of their children. Participants were eight couples and two single parents of 10 children identified as bullies. Half of the parents were assigned to a control group and the other half were trained to identify aggressive and pro-social behaviors of their children, as well as their antecedents and consequences. During eight weekly sessions parents were trained to set limits, reinforce both pro-social behavior and alternative responses to the aggressive ones, to correct, slightly disapprove, punish and extinguish aggressive behavior. Frequency of emission of specific pro-social behaviors (doing homework, helping in domestic chores and picking up toys) and of physical and verbal aggression was registered by parents and teachers during three weeks of base line and during eight weeks of treatment. Results showed a significant reduction of aggressive behavior and an increase of pro-social behavior compared both to base line and to the frequency of the same behaviors by children of the control group. Notably, behavior also changed at school. Results are discussed regarding the usefulness of interventions with parents in reducing bullying behavior by their children in different contexts

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Resultados En la Figura 1 se muestra el promedio semanal de la conducta de hacer la tarea antes de jugar o de realizar cualquier otra actividad de ocio de los niños del grupo experimental y del control durante la línea base y durante el tratamiento. El análisis visual de los datos muestra que el grupo experimental incrementó la conducta de hacer la tarea antes de jugar de una vez durante la línea base a alrededor de cinco ocasiones durante el tratamiento. En cambio, la frecuencia de esa conducta de los niños del grupo control se mantuvo con una frecuencia menor a uno a lo largo de las doce semanas de registro.