Glossary of terms

• Emotional well-being: The ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt to stressful situations.

• Psychological resilience: The process and outcome of successfully adapting to challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility.

• Emotional abuse: Belittling, humiliating or undermining a person’s sense of self-worth/self-esteem (e.g. constant criticism, verbal insults, name-calling, etc.).

• Gender equality: The concept that women and men, girls and boys have equal rights, conditions, treatment and opportunities for realizing their dreams and achievements at full potential.

• Gender identity: Each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth (male or female).

• Gender-based violence (GBV): Violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender (being a boy or a girl for instance), because of this person gender identity or because of the appearance, expression, hairstyle, behaviour or clothing for instance. In gender-based violence are rooted many other problems in the adult years, like domestic violence for example: GBV has different forms, in different ages.

• Gender stereotypes: Gender stereotypes are preconceived ideas whereby males and females are arbitrarily assigned characteristics and roles determined and limited by their sex.” We understand gender as being non-binary, therefore gender stereotypes are being referred to all genders.

• Non-binary: a term that describes someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Instead, a nonbinary person may define their gender identity and experience outside of these binary terms.

• Teen-dating violence: The type of gender-based violence that occurs between young people who are, or who were once in, an intimate relationship.

• Bullying: A form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort.

• Cyber bullying: Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets.

• Cyber harassment: Harassment by means of email, text (or online) messages or the internet.

(Sources: EIGE, APA, youth.gov)

Glossary of terms

• Emotional well-being: The ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt to stressful situations.

• Psychological resilience: The process and outcome of successfully adapting to challenging life experiences through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility.

• Emotional abuse: Belittling, humiliating or undermining a person’s sense of self-worth/self-esteem (e.g. constant criticism, verbal insults, name-calling, etc.).

• Gender equality: The concept that women and men, girls and boys have equal rights, conditions, treatment and opportunities for realizing their dreams and achievements at full potential.

• Gender identity: Each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth (male or female).

• Gender-based violence (GBV): Violence directed against a person because of that person’s gender (being a boy or a girl for instance), because of this person gender identity or because of the appearance, expression, hairstyle, behaviour or clothing for instance. In gender-based violence are rooted many other problems in the adult years, like domestic violence for example: GBV has different forms, in different ages.

• Gender stereotypes: Gender stereotypes are preconceived ideas whereby males and females are arbitrarily assigned characteristics and roles determined and limited by their sex.” We understand gender as being non-binary, therefore gender stereotypes are being referred to all genders.

• Non-binary: a term that describes someone who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Instead, a nonbinary person may define their gender identity and experience outside of these binary terms.

• Teen-dating violence: The type of gender-based violence that occurs between young people who are, or who were once in, an intimate relationship.

• Bullying: A form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort.

• Cyber bullying: Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets.

• Cyber harassment: Harassment by means of email, text (or online) messages or the internet.

(Sources: EIGE, APA, youth.gov)