Curbing Teen Dating Violence: Evidence from a School Prevention Program. RB-9194-CDC

Autor/inn/en	Jaycox, Lisa H.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Weidmer Ocampo, Beverly; Marshall, Grant N.; Collins, Rebecca L.; Hickman, Laura J.; Quigley, Denise D.
Institution	Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA.
Titel	Curbing Teen Dating Violence: Evidence from a School Prevention Program. RB-9194-CDC
Quelle	(2006), (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Law Related Education; Violence; Dating (Social); Adolescents; Hispanic American Students; Safety Education; Student Attitudes; Urban Schools; Intervention; Peer Relationship; High Schools; Help Seeking; Program Effectiveness; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Gewalt; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Sicherheitserziehung; Schülerverhalten; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Peer-Beziehungen; High school; Oberschule; Help-seeking behavior; Help-seeking behaviour; Hilfe suchendes Verhalten; Kalifornien
Abstract	This research brief summarizes a survey about the effectiveness of programs from Break the Cycle, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and fielding dating-violence prevention programs. The study evaluated "Ending Violence," a three-class-session prevention program. Developed by a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group called Break the Cycle, the program focuses on the law, highlighting legal rights of victims of domestic violence and legal responsibilities of perpetrators. The teachers are bilingual, bicultural attorneys. This program has three distinctive features: it is brief (three class sessions), it is compatible with existing health curricula, and it focuses on the legal dimension of dating violence. This perspective is usually new to teens--especially Latino teens in families that have recently immigrated--who may be unfamiliar with their rights under U.S. law or how to exercise them. The program also informs students about its legal services program, in which attorneys are available to teens at no cost to help them with dating violence issues. Key findings include: (1) Break the Cycle's dating-violence prevention program improved Latino teens' knowledge of dating abuse and legal recourse, reduced their acceptance of female-on-male dating violence (but not male-on-female dating violence, whose acceptance was already low), and enhanced teens' perceptions about seeking help if they experience dating violence; (2) Latino teens experiencing problems with dating violence who seek help are most likely to turn to informal sources of support (family and peers); and (3) Intervention programs can educate teens about the importance of intervening when they witness an incident of violence or abuse among their friends. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	RAND Corporation. P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138. Tel: 877-584-8642; Tel: 310-451-7002; Fax: 412-802-4981; e-mail: order@rand.org; Web site: http://www.rand.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10