prevention

Preventing sexual assault

Rape--it's an all too familiar event in many women's lives. But what is being done to prevent its occurrence? How do victims deal with the trauma of rape? How are local agencies dealing with the increasing number of victims? How effective are available treatment programs? From the causes of rape to its lingering effects, from disclosure to treatment, "The Rape Victim" offers the most complete examination to date on this most heinous crime.

Evaluation of a theater-based youth violence prevention program for elementary school children

The present study evaluated the impact of Urban Improv (UI), a theater-based youth violence prevention (YVP) program developed for inner-city youth, on three behavioral and psychological outcome domains: aggressive behaviors, prosocial behaviors, and scholastic attention and engagement. This study compared outcomes for 77 elementary school students in classrooms designated to receive UI with those of 63 students from matched control classrooms. Findings revealed that students who received UI were superior to matched controls on all outcome domains.

Conflict in childhood and reproductive development

Surveyed childhood (CH) family life and adolescent development in 380 students (aged 16-19 yrs) from southern Italy. In females, more stress in quality of family life, more parental marital unhappiness, more conflict with mother, more rejection from father, and less emotional closeness to mother throughout CH and more behavioral independence from mother/father in late CH were associated with earlier menarche. Earlier menarche was associated with earlier age at dating men and older age of 1st sexual intercourse partner relative to own age at 1st intercourse.

Asian and non-Asian attitudes toward rape, sexual harassment, and sexuality

The purpose of this study was to explore potential differences between Asian and non-Asian university students in attitudes toward coercive and noncoercive sexual behavior. Four hundred women and men (205 Asian, 195 non-Asian) were assessed on attitudes towards rape, sexual harassment, and general sexual behavior. Length of residency in Canada for Asian respondents was examined to determine whether "Westernization" might attenuate differences. Analysis revealed that Asian students were significantly more conservative in attitudes toward sexual behavior.

Implementing Dating Violence Prevention Programs with Flexibility, Fidelity, and Sensitivity to Diversity: Lessons Learned from iExpect Respect/i

Communities increasingly are recognizing that intimate partner violence is a significant risk to the mental and physical health of adolescents. In response to this concern, a number of manualized adolescent dating violence prevention programs have been developed and disseminated. Although many of these programs have received empirical support, reviews of the dating violence prevention literature reveal a number of shortcomings of these efforts, particularly an absence of attention to issues of diversity.

Risk factors for adolescent substance abuse and dependence: Data from a national sample

A national household probability sample of 4,023 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years was interviewed by telephone about substance use, victimization experiences, familial substance use, and posttraumatic reactions to identify risk factors for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- (4th ed. ; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) defined substance abuse/dependence. Age and ethnicity data were available for 3,907 participants.

The Crime of Rape

Rape--it's an all too familiar event in many women's lives. But what is being done to prevent its occurrence? How do victims deal with the trauma of rape? How are local agencies dealing with the increasing number of victims? How effective are available treatment programs? From the causes of rape to its lingering effects, from disclosure to treatment, "The Rape Victim" offers the most complete examination to date on this most heinous crime.

Sex differences in university students' attitudes toward rape

Rape is being recognized by university administrators as a major problem on university campuses. This study investigated the nature of sex differences among university students' attitudes toward rape. Results showed that males were quite different from females in their attitudes and tended to support many of the myths regarding rape. Implications of the results concerning the nature and prevention of rape on college campuses are discussed.

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