❚ 1 Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling Volume 21 | Issue 1 | 2011 | pp. 1–21 | DOI 10.1375/ajgc.21.1.1 ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Dr Natasha Pearce, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Ave, Mt Lawley, Western Australia. E-mail: n.pearce@ecu.edu.au Current Evidence of Best Practice in Whole-School Bullying Intervention and Its Potential to Inform Cyberbullying Interventions Natasha Pearce, Donna Cross, Helen Monks, Stacey Waters, and Sarah Falconer Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia In 2004, a set of validated guidelines for school bullying prevention and man- agement was released by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre in Australia to guide schools’ action to prevent and manage bullying behaviours. At this time little was known about cyber and other forms of covert bullying behaviours. These guidelines were updated in 2010 to include current research that provides a greater understanding of all forms of bullying behaviour. This article describes a summary of the current empirical evidence used to update these guidelines particularly related to relatively new and emergent forms of bullying, such as cyberbullying. Meta-analyses and reviews that assessed the effectiveness of school-based bullying interventions were examined to inform the relevance of the previously validated guidelines and to identify potential intervention strategies to reduce cyberbullying. This review confirmed the importance of a systematic whole-school approach to effectively prevent and manage all forms of bullying behaviours in schools (including cyberbullying) and the need to strengthen capacity supports to enable schools to put evidence into informed practice. ■ Keywords: bullying, cyberbullying, school-based intervention, whole-school The growing availability, use of and reliance on information and communications technology (ICT) among young people (Smith et al., 2008), has been accompa- nied by the potential for such technologies to be misused to bully others; a type of aggression termed ‘cyberbullying’ (Belsey, 2006; Hinduja & Patchin, 2007; Smith et al., 2008). Based on definitions used by other researchers, cyberbullying is defined as when, over a period of time, an individual or a group use ICT to inten- tionally harm a person, who finds it hard to stop this bullying from continuing (Belsey, 2006; Patchin & Hinduja, 2006; Smith, et al., 2008). Cyberbullying ARTICLES