Interventions on bullying and cyberbullying in schools: A systematic review

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-76

  Cantone, Elisa ^a   Piras, Anna P ^a   Vellante, Marcello ^a   Preti, Antonello ^a   Daníelsdóttir, Sigrun ^b   D'Aloja, Ernesto ^a   Lesinskiene, Sigita ^c   Angermeyer, Mathhias C ^a,d   Carta, Mauro G ^b   Bhugra, Dinesh ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Dir of Health ^*  (Iceland)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d Center for Public Mental Health   (Austria)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bullying; Cyber bullying; Randomized controlled trials; School

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BELGIUM; BULLYING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYBERBULLYING; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NETHERLANDS; PEER GROUP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SWITZERLAND; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929616163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1745017901511010058     Document Type: Article

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