Journal of Counseling Research

The aim of present research was to study effectiveness of social competence training based on Flener model on resilience and rate of victimization of students who are bullying victims. Research design was a quasi-experimental method along with pre-test/post-test and control group. The population consisted of girl victims who were studying at 7th and 8th grade in first stage of secondary school. Sample consisted of 96 victim students that first were screened and then were randomly assigned to experimental (n=46) and control (n=46) groups. California Bullying Victimization and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scales were used. Social competence training was conducted in 12 sessions during six weeks for experimental group and control group received no training. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance indicated that the training is effective on increase of resilience and on decrease of the rate of victimization of victims. These results have important implications for officials and consultants in helping to bullying victims and in decrease of bad effects of bullying phenomenon on these students.