Interventions against bullying in Flemish Schools: programme development and evaluation

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8 - Interventions against bullying in Flemish Schools: programme development and evaluation

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Veerle Stevens ,

Paulette Van Oost and

Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij

Edited by

Peter K. Smith ,

Debra Pepler and

Ken Rigby

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Veerle Stevens: Affiliation:
Flemish Institute for Health Promotion, G. Schildknechtstraat 9, B-1020 Brussels, Belgium, veerle.stevens@vig.be
Paulette Van Oost: Affiliation:
Ghent University, Research Group Health and Behaviour, H. Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, paulette.vanoost@rug.ac.be
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij: Affiliation:
Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium, ilse.debourdeaudhuij@rug.ac.be
Peter K. Smith: Affiliation:
Goldsmiths, University of London
Debra Pepler: Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Ken Rigby: Affiliation:
University of South Australia

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Impetus for the intervention, early stages of planning, and funding

The development and evaluation of the Flemish anti-bullying intervention programme was based on the results of a prevalence study among primary and secondary school students on the extent of bullying and victimisation at school, as well as on previous research on bully/victim problems. Especially, the work done by Olweus (1994) and the information drawn from the DFE Sheffield anti-bullying project (Smith and Sharp, 1994) were a trigger for programme development and further evaluation. Two successive projects were carried out. Funding was obtained from the Department of Social Affairs and from Ghent University, respectively. The first project developed an anti-bullying intervention programme adapted to the Flemish educational context. The second project aimed at implementing and evaluating the programme outcomes of the Flemish anti-bullying intervention. Following a description of these projects, we will give an overview of some critical issues related to the programme outcomes observed.

The first project: Programme development

The development of the Flemish anti-bullying intervention programme was founded on the principles of health education research (Green and Kreuter, 1991; Damoiseaux et al., 1993; Bartholomew et al., 1998) and included four successive steps for programme development. The first step consisted of a prevalence study to analyse the seriousness and characteristics of bully/victim problems in Flemish schools. The second step aimed at identifying the behavioural determinants of bully/victim problems.

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Information: Bullying in Schools
How Successful Can Interventions Be?
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511584466.009 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2004

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