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This chapter will focus on and provide an overview of evidence-based school interventions to address school bullying. A description of a range of international anti-bullying intervention programs will be made. In this chapter we provide a practical example of a coping with bullying intervention developed by the authors and implemented in schools in a number of different countries. To this end an examination will be made of the nature of coping itself. A step by step guide will be provided for the reader for implementing a coping with bullying program in a school.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    (χ2(4) = 66.94, p < 0.0001, Cramer’s V = 0.414; However, we could only accept these findings with caution because 4 cells (44.4 %) had an expected count less than 5.

  2. 2.

    (χ2(4) = 94.29, p < 0.0001, Cramer’s V = 0.474; However, we could only accept these findings with caution because 2 cells (22.2 %) had an expected count less than 5.

  3. 3.

    F(1, 208) = 0.548, p > 0.05.

  4. 4.

    F(2, 358) = 1.26, p > 0.05.

  5. 5.

    F(2,44) = 6.63, p < 0.003; Mauchly’s Test of Sphericity was not significant, suggesting F-test was reliable.

  6. 6.

    F(2,32) = 2.28, p > 0.05.

  7. 7.

    F(2,12) = 8.64, p < 0.005.

  8. 8.

    F(2,12) = 8.64, p < 0.005.

Abbreviations

Coping:

Effectively dealing with adverse circumstances.

Dosage:

The amount of the intervention that is actually delivered and to which participants are exposed.

Fidelity:

The extent to which an intervention program is implemented as planned.

Intervention:

An action, process or program, delivered with an intent to cause change.

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Slee, P.T., Skrzypiec, G. (2016). Anti-bullying Interventions. In: Well-Being, Positive Peer Relations and Bullying in School Settings. Positive Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43039-3_8

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