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Teen dating violence is a serious public health problem with few effective prevention strategies. This randomized control trial compared Dating Matters, a comprehensive multicomponent prevention for sixth to eighth graders, with a standard of care intervention to examine the impact on preventing negative relationship behaviors and promoting positive relationship behaviors.

Despite a near unanimous agreement that human trafficking is a morally reprehensible practice, there is confusion around what qualifies as human trafficking in the United States. This article examines how the definition of human trafficking has evolved over time to become nearly synonymous with slavery and asks why media and anti-trafficking organizations have been focusing their attention on the sexual exploitation of foreign women. The authors show how a focus on human trafficking as a security problem and a domestic issue can increase public response to the issue. 

Based on the recommendations from Edleson’s article, titled “Children’s Witnessing of Domestic Violence,” Kimball examines the impact and the cumulative effects of exposure to violence, potential protective factors highlight children’s resilience and the father-child relationship.

To date, little research has documented how teens might misuse technology to harass, control, and abuse their dating partners. This study examined the extent of cyber dating abuse—abuse via technology and new media—in youth relationships and how it relates to other forms of teen dating violence. A total of 5,647 youth from ten schools in three northeastern states participated in the survey, of which 3,745 reported currently being in a dating relationship or having been in one during the prior year (52 % were female; 74 % White). Just over a quarter of youth in a current or recent…

This annotated bibliography and summary of research identify significant research carried out in the decade since 1999 on the issue of dating violence among high school and middle school youth. The survey provided by the bibliography and summary covers quantitative and qualitative literature on the definition and prevalence of, as well as risk factors for, adolescent dating violence, also called teen relationship abuse. Commonly researched risk factors, correlates, or predictors of teen dating violence include demographic and community-level factors, as well as more proximate family-level…

The aim of this theoretical review is to integrate bullying and teen dating violence (TDV) prevention research to answer two questions: 1) Why is an integrated intervention approach necessary for TDV and bullying prevention? and 2) Can a common intervention approach build from the existing research to prevent bullying and TDV concurrently? We propose an integrated intervention model using common program components to target risk factors (hypothesized proximal effects) at different levels of social influence (e.g. school, parents, and individuals), leading to hypothesized distal prevention…

A Conversation—Men: What You Can Say and Do to Make a Difference promotes talking points for practitioners working with violent men and/or their families. This guide outlines promoting change, what women can say when in danger, what to say to a child witness, and why men batter.