NCJ Number
156594
Date Published
1984
Length
132 pages
Annotation
This curriculum is intended to help high school teachers and youth workers teach about family violence to help adolescents cope with violence at home and avoid repeating violent patterns in their own lives.
Abstract
The curriculum encourages young people to see violence as an inappropriate response to stressful situations and asks them to reexamine their attitudes on a wide range of issues that are linked with domestic assault; these include gender role stereotyping and racial prejudice. The curriculum is designed to be flexible for use in whole or in part in a variety of settings ranging from the classroom to a teen center to a residential youth facility. The curriculum contains eight units: (1) introduction to family violence, (2) child abuse, (3) child sexual abuse, (4) woman abuse, (5) date rape, (6) gender role stereotypes and socialization, (7) stress, and (8) prevention and intervention. Each unit include includes activities that would take from two to five sessions lasting 50 minutes each. Discussion guides, activities, handouts, related materials, and resource lists