@article{ref1,
title="Adapting dating violence prevention to francophone Switzerland: a story of intra-western cultural differences",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2012",
author="Hamby, Sherry L. and Nix, Kaki and De Puy, Jacqueline and Monnier, Sylvie",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="33-42",
abstract="Dating violence prevention programs, which originated in the United States, are beginning to be implemented elsewhere. This article presents the first adaptation of a violence prevention program for a European culture, Francophone Switzerland. A U.S. dating violence prevention program, Safe Dates (Foshee & Langwick, 1994), was reviewed in 19 youth and 4 professional focus groups. The most fundamental program concepts--&quot;dating&quot; and &quot;violence&quot;--are not the same in Switzerland and the United States. Swiss youth were not very focused on establishing monogamous romantic relationships, and there is no ready translation for &quot;dating.&quot; Violence has not become the focus of a social movement in Switzerland to the same extent that it has in the United States, and distinctions among terms such as &quot;dating violence&quot; and &quot;domestic violence&quot; are not well known. Psychoeducational approaches are also less common in the Swiss context. As the movement to prevent violence extends worldwide, these issues need greater consideration.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}