Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best opportunity for promoting healthy, non-violent relationships is to intervene during adolescence, when peer relationships and interpersonal style become firmly established. The proactive, competency-enhancing programme is designed to build strengths, resilience and coping skills in young people. Carefully developed and tested in the field, the 18-session group training programme has three principal sections, covering informational, skill-building...
Designed to combat physical and sexual aggression against women and children, this prevention programme manual is based on the premise that the best o...
Motivated by the need to stop violence against women and children, the authors of this timely volume argue that the key to preventing interpersonal violence lies in education during that window of opportunity -- adolescence.
The authors present a model designed to educate young people about the abuse of power and to assist them in forming egalitarian relationships. Their hope is that as healthier relationships are formed, the overall risk of violence against women and children is reduced and the foundation is laid for future, non-violent relationships.
Motivated by the need to stop violence against women and children, the authors of this timely volume argue that the key to preventing interpersonal...
There is little doubt that a connection exists between violence in intimate relationships (child abuse, woman abuse, spouse abuse) and substance addiction. The exact nature of this relationship is difficult to determine as confounding variables are hard to control for and the exact context of problem behaviors is hard to represent in studies. The incidence of poly-substance abuse and intimate violence is another area that has only recently been the subject of study. The Violence and Addiction Equation is an empirically based work that bridges the relationship between violence and substance...
There is little doubt that a connection exists between violence in intimate relationships (child abuse, woman abuse, spouse abuse) and substance addic...
