1. Changing your status in a changing world: it is complicated! A developmental systems framework for understanding dating violence in adolescents and young adults -- 2. Theories on the causation of partner abuse perpetration -- 3. The acute and chronic impact of adolescent dating violence: a public health perspective -- 4. Associations among family violence, bullying, sexual harrassment, and teen dating violence -- 5. Peers over parents? How peer relationships influence dating violence -- 6. Substance use and adolescent dating violence: how strong is the link? -- 7. Mechanisms underlying the association of exposure to family of origin violence and adolescent dating violence -- 8. Youth dating violence and homicide -- 9. Adolescent dating violence among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth -- 10. Adolescent dating violence among ethinicially diverse youth -- 11. Are neighborhood factors associated with teen dating violence? Let us examine the evidence -- 12. Gender inequality and gender-based violence: extensions to adolescent dating violence -- 12. Measuring adolescent dating violence -- 14. Violence begets violence: addressing the dual nature of partner violence in adolescent and young adult relatioships -- 15. Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will always hurt me -- 16. What works to prevent adolesent intimate partner and sexual violence? A global review of best practices -- 17. Preventing sexual violence amongh adolescents and young adults -- 18. College-based dating violence prevention strategies -- 19. Using intervention mapping to develop "me & you: building healthy relationships," a healthy relationship intervention for early middle school students -- 20. Building capacity to implement teen dating violence prevention: lessons learned from the Alaska Fourth R initiative.
Summary:
Summarizes the course, risk/protective factors, consequences and treatment/prevention of adolescent dating violence. Dating violence is defined as physical, sexual, psychological, and cyber behavior meant to cause emotional, physical, or social harm to a current or former intimate partner. The book discusses research design and measurement in the field, focuses on the recent influx of longitudinal studies, and examines prevention and intervention initiatives. Divided into five sections, the book begins by reviewing theory on and consequences of dating violence. Section II discusses risk factors and protective factors such as peer influences, substance use, and past exposure to violence in the family of origin. Section III discusses how social and cultural factors can influence teen dating violence, addressing the prevalence of dating violence among different ethnicities and among LGBTQ teens, and the influence of social media. Section IV discusses recent research priorities including gender inequality, measurement, psychological abuse, and the dual nature of dating violence during adolescence. Section V reviews evidence-based practice for treatment and prevention across various age groups and settings.
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