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Informationen zum Autor Associate Professor (Research) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio University, where she studied under the apprenticeship of Dr. Christine A. Gidycz in the Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Sexual Assault. In concert with collaborators, she has published three prior evaluations of sexual assault prevention programs for college women (Gidycz et al., 2006; Orchowski et al., 2008; Gidycz et al., 2015), as well as prevention approaches for college men (Orchowski et al., 2018; Gidycz et al., 2011), and has authored work on the implementation of sexual assault prevention programs for men (Gidycz et al., 2011), and the supervision of such work (Orchowski et al., 2011). As a Principal Investigator, she completed a NIAAA-funded research examining sexual assault prevention with college men, and is currently the Principal Investigator of two CDC-funded evaluations of sexual assault prevention, risk reduction, and bystander intervention programming among high school and middle school students, and a Department of Defense Funded evaluation of sexual assault prevention for men in the military. She has previously published Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice with Elsevier, as well as Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theory, Research and Practice with American Psychological Association. Christine Gidycz is a developer and evaluator of the Ohio University Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program. This program has sustained development, evaluation and revision across 7 outcome studies over the past 20 years. Dr. Gidycz has received funding from the Ohio Department of Health as well as the Centers for Disease Control. She is the author of numerous manuscripts addressed sexual assault risk reduction, sexual assault prevention, and risk factors for violence Klappentext Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research, and Practice examines sexual assault risk reduction programs for young women. Following an ecosystemic perspective, the book examines individual risk and protective factors for sexual victimization, as well as peer-, family-, community- and societal-level factors that influence risk for sexual violence. Although the volume includes a discussion of broader-level initiatives to prevent sexual assault (i.e., bystander intervention programs, sexual assault prevention programs), the primary focus is on risk reduction and resistance programs for young women. . The book features an introduction that operationalizes risk reduction, then highlights the rationale and need for risk reduction, raises current controversies and questions facing the field, and outlines the current state of the science. The second section focuses on risk and protective factors for victimization and how these factors guide risk reduction efforts. The third section outlines the theory and research of current sexual assault risk reduction and resistance practices. The last section of the book addresses special populations and future directions....
List of contents
1. Introduction
2. The Current State of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction
3. The Consequences of Rape: Ensuring that Interventions are Trauma Informed
PART 2: Risk and Protective Factors
4. Risk for Rape Across the Ecosystem: Outlining a Framework for Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education
5. Perpetrator Characteristics: Implications for Risk Reduction Programming, Policy and Sanctioning on College Campuses
6. "I thought it could never happen to me”: Understanding Women's Perceptions of Risk for Violence
7. Psychological Barriers to Resistance
8. Fighting Back! Efficacy of Women's Resistance Strategies to Rape
9. Alcohol Use and Risk for Sexual Violence
PART 3: Intervention Approaches and Efficacy
10. Approaches to Sexual Assault Risk Reduction, Resistance, and Self Defense
11. Efficacy of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education Programs
12. Efficacy of Self Defense Training for Rape Resistance
13. Sexual Violence as a Global Health Problem: Theory and Intervention Efficacy
PART 4: Special Populations and Topics
14. Reducing Risk for Revictimization: Rationale and Intervention Approaches
15. Risk Reduction among LGBTQ Populations
16. Intersection of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and HIV Prevention
17. Preventing the "Second Assault”: Strategies for Enhancing Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization
