Excursus: Promoting Social Skills and Preventing Bullying at School: The Preventive Intervention Programme Fairplayer.Manual—Grade 7–9

Bullying at school is a group phenomenon—not only students who are bullied and students who bully others, but also other students are involved, for example, through their pro-bullying behaviour or non-intervention. How can we encourage students to intervene and thus prevent bullying? In the present article the program Fairplayer.Manual—Grades 7–9 (translated from Fairplayer.Manual—Klasse 7–9) for the prevention of bullying and the promotion of social skills at school, the program’s scientific background, selected examples of program measures and materials, as well as the implementation approach, and the effectiveness of the programme are presented.