TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Expect Respect support groups: preliminary evaluation of a dating violence prevention program for at-risk youth JO - Violence against women A1 - Ball, Barbara A1 - Tharp, Andra Teten A1 - Noonan, Rita K. A1 - Valle, Linda Anne A1 - Hamburger, Merle E. A1 - Rosenbluth, Barri SP - 746 EP - 762 VL - 18 IS - 7 N2 - Expect Respect support groups, a selective prevention strategy, are designed to prevent and reduce dating violence among at-risk middle and high school students. This preliminary, uncontrolled evaluation examined changes in healthy relationship skills and emotionally and physically abusive behaviors in participants' peer and dating relationships. Self-reports (N = 144) showed significant increases in healthy relationship skills from baseline to program completion, whereas levels of victimization and perpetration remained unchanged. A subgroup of students who reported baseline levels of victimization and perpetration with means at least one standard deviation above the group mean reported significantly less victimization and perpetration at program completion.

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LA - en SN - 1077-8012 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801212455188 ID - ref1 ER -