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Protecting Children Through Anti-bullying Interventions

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Protecting Children Against Bullying and Its Consequences

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As described in Chap. 2, systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been conducted on different topics related to bullying and anti-bullying interventions. Among them, the most comprehensive searches and analyses were carried out by Farrington and Ttofi (2009), who reviewed 53 evaluations published in 89 reports.

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Zych, I., Farrington, D.P., Llorent, V.J., Ttofi, M.M. (2017). Protecting Children Through Anti-bullying Interventions. In: Protecting Children Against Bullying and Its Consequences. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53028-4_5

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