Adolescent victims of cyber violence: change of role for social work

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When the adolescent and youth violence turns into harassment and it goes far beyond the school using technology to achieve its purpose, its identification and eradication becomes more difficult, showing the fragility of the social system. In order to diagnose the emphasis given in the scientific research in Spain to cyber violence and to identify its impact, a systematic review of studies conducted in the past six years was raised, identifying the type of study, sample and its characteristics, studied harassment modalities and results obtained, among other factors. Despite the methodological gap of the analyzed studies, the main result suggests that situations of Cyberbullying have experienced an increase in Spain in recent years, becoming by the unstoppable advance of TIC, although at different rates.. Different studies also point to the fragility of public policies in this context of vulnerability for adolescents, which also do not recognize or create opportunities for young people themselves intervene in their formulation and development. Therefore, it is necessary to reformulate community strategies that articulate the risk factors identified by providing tools which empower young people and society in general, beyond the criminalization.