title: Expect respect support groups: preliminary evaluation of a dating violence prevention program for at-risk youth.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: SafePlace, Austin, TX 78760, USA. bball@SafePlace.org
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.forename: Andra Teten
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Tharp
authors.forename: Rita K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Noonan
authors.forename: Linda Anne
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Valle
authors.forename: Merle E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hamburger
authors.forename: Barri
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rosenbluth
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*