Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Chapter for school professionals on domestic and dating violence

The chapter listed below is from a school services sourcebook and discusses the implications for school professionals for domestic and dating violence. Extremely relevant and useful! This chapter offers steps and issues to consider for appropriately tackling issues of domestic and dating violence in schools and is all supported by research. It also includes sample lessons from the Expect Respect Curriculum.

Black, B.M. & Weisz, A.N. (2006). Effective interventions with dating violence and domestic violence. p. 519-525.
-Chapter from The school services sourcebook: A guide for school-based professionals.

Link to Chapter

Research Study on Children and DV

This research study examines the effects of children ages 3-5 and their mothers who were exposed to domestic violence. The exposed children were found to be 3.7 times more likely to develop internalizing and externalizing problems. Chronic domestic violence was found to be related to difficult child temperament and maternal depression,


Torteya, C. M., Bogat, A. G., Von Eye, A., & Levendosky, A. A. (2009). Resilience among children exposed to domestic violence: The role of risk and protective factors. Child Development, 80, 562-577.

Meta-Analysis - School Violence

The Evaluation of School-Based Violence Prevention Programs: A Meta-Analysis


By: Hyoun-Kyoung Park-Higgerson, Suzanne Perumean-Chaney, Alfred Bartolucci, Diane Grimley, & Karan Singh

Out of five hypothesis, 1 successful program strategy was identified.

"The use of a single-approach programs had a mild positive effect on reducing violence in children and adolescents independently when compared to programs using multiple-approach programs that involved the family, peers, and/or community. Although multiple approaches to reduce adolescents' violence have been broadly recognized as desirable, this meta-analysis suggests otherwise and instead supports a focused single-component approach to reducing school-based violence."

Safeguard Your Community Against Domestic Violence

Bill Moyers Journal

*Site has multiple resources and links to agencies

www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03202009/profile4.html

MERLOT Information


MERLOT Resources:


Global Violence Prevention

www.globalvp.umn.edu/cgi-bin/index.pl


National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - Family Violence

www.ncjrs.gov/spotlight/family_violence/summary.html

Teen Pregnancy & Dating Violence

When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident - NPR

Article - 5/27/2010

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127209931



A Memoir Of Domestic Violence And 'Crazy Love'


NPR - Author Leslie Morgan Steiner of "Crazy Love"

8 min. 19 sec. Interview

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102661841