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RIViR Paper #3. Healthy relationship program Influences
Evidence for understanding how healthy relationship programs may influence intimate partner violence
Clinton-Sherrod, A., Kan, M., McKay, T., Krieger, K., Cutbush, S., Grove, L., & Mbilinyi, L. (2016). RIViR Paper #3. Healthy relationship program Influences: Evidence for understanding how healthy relationship programs may influence intimate partner violence. OPRE Report No. 2016-69 https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/rivir_researchpaper3_cleared_508.pdf
Despite shared recognition of the importance of ensuring safety in healthy relationship programs, there is a lack of research or practice consensus regarding how healthy relationship program participation could affect intimate partner violence or teen dating violence (IPV/TDV), the ways in which those effects might occur, and how such effects might differ for adults and youth with current or prior experiences of IPV/TDV.
The purpose of this paper is to describe these observed and hypothesized associations, based on a review of empirical and theoretical work and expert input. A range of factors are proposed—from other (non-IPV) outcomes of program participation, to participants’ characteristics and current or prior IPV/TDV experiences—that should be considered when proposing approaches to identifying and addressing IPV/TDV.
