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Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault: Perspectives on What Works

Name: Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault: Perspectives on What Works
Brand: Columbia University Press
SKU: 9780231134538
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Contributors:

Arlene Weisz, Beverly Black

Publisher:

Columbia University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Psychology, Family & Relationships

Book Subcategory:

Social Work, Psychotherapy, Abuse

Book Topic:

Child & Adolescent

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Release Date:

2009-05-05

ISBN 13:

9780231134538

Weight:

0.95 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

336

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Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black interview practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States to provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Enhancing existing research with the shared wisdom of the nation's prevention community, Weisz and Black describe program goals and content, recruitment strategies, membership, structure, and community involvement in practitioners' own words. Their comprehensive approach reveals the core techniques that should be a part of any successful prevention program, including theoretical consistency, which contributes to sound content development, and peer education and youth leadership, which empower participants and keep programs relevant.

Weisz and Black show that multisession programs are most useful in preventing violence and assault, because they enable participants to learn new behaviors and change entrenched attitudes. Combining single- and mixed-gender sessions, as well as steering discussions away from the assignment of blame, also yield positive results. The authors demonstrate that productive education remains sensitive to differences in culture and sexual orientation and includes experiential exercises and role-playing. Manuals help in guiding educators and improving evaluation, but they should also allow adolescents to direct the discussion. Good programs regularly address teachers and parents. Ultimately, though, Weisz and Black find that the ideal program retains prevention educators long after the apprentice stage, encouraging self-evaluation and new interventions based on the wisdom that experience brings.

About the Author

Arlene Weisz joined the faculty of the School of Social Work at Wayne State University in 1995, after a social work career that included practice with adolescents. She researches adult and adolescent partner violence and sexual assault prevention and has co-coordinated and evaluated dating violence and sexual assault prevention programs for middle-school youth and university students.

Beverly Black is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. For several years she co-coordinated and evaluated dating violence and sexual assault prevention programs for adolescents and university students in Detroit, Michigan. She conducts research and publishes on issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and prevention programming.

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