Browsing by Subject "Dating violence"

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    Adolescent Relationship Violence: Help-Seeking and Help-Giving Behaviors among Peers
    (Springer, Part of Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-04) Fry, Deborah A.; Messinger, Adam M.; Rickert, Vaughn I.; O’Connor, Meghan K.; Palmetto, Niki; Lessel, Harriet; Davidson, Leslie L.; Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine
    Young people tend to disclose relationship violence experiences to their peers, if they disclose at all, yet little is known about the nature and frequency of adolescent help-seeking and help-giving behaviors. Conducted within a sample of 1,312 young people from four New York City high schools, this is the first paper to ask adolescent help-givers about the various forms of help they provide and among the first to examine how ethnicity and nativity impact help-seeking behaviors. Relationship violence victims who had ever disclosed (61 %) were more likely to choose their friends for informal support. Ethnicity was predictive of adolescent disclosure outlets, whereas gender and nativity were not. Latinos were significantly less likely than non-Latinos to ever disclose to only friends, as compared to disclosing to at least one adult. The likelihood of a young person giving help to their friend in a violent relationship is associated with gender, ethnicity, and nativity, with males being significantly less likely than females to give all forms of help to their friends (talking to their friends about the violence, suggesting options, and taking action). Foreign-born adolescents are less likely to talk or suggest options to friends in violent relationships. This study also found that Latinos were significantly more likely than non-Latinos to report taking action with or on behalf of a friend in a violent relationship. This research shows that adolescents often rely on each other to address relationship violence, underlining the importance of adolescents’ receipt of training and education on how to support their friends, including when to seek help from more formal services. To further understand the valuable role played by adolescent peers of victims, future research should explore both which forms of help are perceived by the victim to be most helpful and which are associated with more positive outcomes.
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    Designing an Internet Intervention for Emerging Adults Who Experience Troubled Relationships
    (Elsevier, 2017-06) Burke Draucker, Claire; Martsolf, Donna S.; Crane, Stacey; Romero, Lindsey; Leigh McCord, Allison; School of Nursing
    This article describes how the Internet Intervention Model (IIM) was used as an organizing framework to design a theoretically based Internet intervention for emerging adults who experience troubled intimate partner relationships. In the design process, the team addressed six fundamental questions related to the several components of the IIM. Decisions made regarding the design of the intervention based on the six questions are described. We focus in particular on how the intervention is based on the Theory of Emerging Adulthood and the Theory of Narrative Identity.
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    A feasibility test of an online intervention to prevention dating violence in emerging adults
    (Elsevier:, 2019-02) Burke Draucker, Claire; Martsolf, Donna S.; Crane, Stacey; McCord, Allison L.; Romero, Lindsey; Al-Khattab, Halima A.; School of Nursing
    Dating violence in emerging adults is a significant problem and few prevention programs based on the developmental needs of this age group have been developed. Our research team developed an online dating violence prevention program called WISER (Writing to Improve Self-in-Relationships) for emerging adults. The program is based on narrative therapy principles and uses structured writing techniques. A single group pre-post feasibility test of WISER was conducted with 14 college women. WISER was demonstrated to be feasible and acceptable and to show promise as an effective program to decrease dating violence in this population.