Clinical trial of Second Step© middle-school program: Impact on aggression &amp; victimization

Espelage, Dorothy L.; Low, Sabina; Polanin, Joshua R.; Brown, Eric C.

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2014.11.007

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“…Thus, prevention programming that enhances peer relationships, promotes student–teacher connections, and normalizes help‐seeking may be particularly useful. Social–emotional learning programs (SEL; see Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, ), such as Second Step (Committee for Children, https://www.secondstep.org/), not only improve children's functioning, but have also been shown to reduce victimization exposure and promote positive peer‐to‐peer and student‐teacher relationships (Cooke et al, ; Edwards, Hunt, Meyers, Grogg, & Jarrett, ; Espelage, Low, Polanin, & Brown, ; Frey, Hirschstein, & Guzzo, ).…”

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Associations between peer victimization and school climate: The impact of form and the moderating role of gender

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Psychology in the Schools

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The purpose of the present study is to examine whether physical and relational victimization negatively impacts indicators of school climate–students’ perceptions of school safety, their attachment to school, and their help‐seeking behavior–and whether gender moderates these associations. Using a sample of 361 third through fifth‐grade students recruited from six public elementary schools, results reveal that relational and physical victimization were both uniquely associated with lower levels of school safety and school attachment, with stronger associations between school attachment and relational victimization. However, only physical victimization was negatively associated with help‐seeking, suggesting that physical victimization is more influential on help seeking as compared with relational victimization. Gender moderated the relationships between victimization and school attachment and help‐seeking with differences by form noted. No gender differences were evident in associations between the forms of peer victimization and school safety. Implications for prevention and intervention in schools are discussed.

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Associations between peer victimization and school climate: The impact of form and the moderating role of gender

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“…For example, the Good Behavior Game targets aggressive behavior among elementary school youth and yet impacts suicidal ideation, substance use, and mental health, with effects noted well into adulthood (Poduska & Kurki, 2014). More recently, social emotional learning programs have been effective in reducing youth aggression (Espelage, Low, Polanin, & Brown, 2015). A wider implementation of universal interventions could potentially impact SV at the public health level.…”

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Predicting the Emergence of Sexual Violence in Adolescence

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This study aims to report the epidemiology of sexual violence (SV) perpetration for both female and male youth across a broad age spectrum. Additionally, the etiology of SV perpetration is examined by identifying prior exposures that predict a first SV perpetration. Six waves of data were collected nationally online, between 2006 and 2012, from 1586 youth between 10 and 21 years of age. Five types of SV were assessed: sexual harassment, sexual assault, coercive sex, attempted rape, and rape. To identify how prior exposures may predict the emergence of SV in adolescence, parsimonious lagged multivariable logistic regression models estimated the odds of first perpetrating each of the five types of SV within the context of other variables (e.g., rape attitudes). Average age at first perpetration was between 15 and 16 years of age, depending on SV type. Several characteristics were more commonly reported by perpetrators than non-perpetrators (e.g., alcohol use, other types of SV perpetration and victimization). After adjusting for potentially influential characteristics, prior exposure to parental spousal abuse and current exposure to violent pornography were each strongly associated with the emergence of SV perpetration-attempted rape being the exception for violent pornography. Current aggressive behavior was also significantly implicated in all types of first SV perpetration except rape. Previous victimization of sexual harassment and current victimization of psychological abuse in relationships were additionally predictive of one's first SV perpetration, albeit in various patterns. In this national longitudinal study of different types of SV perpetration among adolescent men and women, findings suggest several malleable factors that need to be targeted, especially scripts of inter-personal violence that are being modeled by abusive parents in youths' homes and also reinforced by violent pornography. The predictive value of victimization for a subsequent first SV perpetration highlights the inter-relatedness of different types of violence involvement. Universal and holistic prevention programming that targets aggressive behaviors and violent scripts in inter-personal relationships is needed well before the age of 15 years.

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“…The lack of effects on sexual violence after sixth grade might be due to the fact that sexual behavior was not overtly addressed within the curriculum. However, at a 2-year follow-up after seventh grade (when sexual harassment was added to the curriculum), Illinois schools that received SS-SSTP had lower rates of sexual violence perpetration, although Kansas schools did not (Espelage, Sabina, Polanin, & Brown, 2015). …”

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Preventing the Onset of Child Sexual Abuse by Targeting Young Adolescents With Universal Prevention Programming

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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious public health problem that increases risk for physical and mental health problems across the life course. Young adolescents are responsible for a substantial portion of CSA offending, yet to our knowledge, no validated prevention programs that target CSA perpetration by youth exist. Most existing efforts to address CSA rely on reactive criminal justice policies or programs that teach children to protect themselves; neither approach is well validated. Given the high rates of desistance from sexual offending following a youth’s first CSA-related adjudication, it seems plausible that many youth could be prevented from engaging in their first offense. The goal of this article is to examine how school-based universal prevention programs might be used to prevent CSA perpetrated by adolescents. We review the literature on risk and protective factors for CSA perpetration and identify several promising factors to target in an intervention. We also summarize the literature on programs that have been effective at preventing adolescent dating violence and other serious problem behaviors. Finally, we describe a new CSA prevention program under development and early evaluation and make recommendations for program design characteristics, including unambiguous messaging, parental involvement, multisession dosage, skills practice, and bystander considerations.

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Clinical trial of Second Step© middle-school program: Impact on aggression & victimization

Cited by 120 publications

References 56 publications

Associations between peer victimization and school climate: The impact of form and the moderating role of gender

Associations between peer victimization and school climate: The impact of form and the moderating role of gender

Predicting the Emergence of Sexual Violence in Adolescence

Preventing the Onset of Child Sexual Abuse by Targeting Young Adolescents With Universal Prevention Programming

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