scholarly journals “What matters to someone who matters to me”: using media campaigns with young people to prevent interpersonal violence and abuse

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 648-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Stanley ◽  
Jane Ellis ◽  
Nicola Farrelly ◽  
Sandra Hollinghurst ◽  
Sue Bailey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
What Matters

scholarly journals Role of Narrative and Social Networks in Thwarting Violence and Sexual Abuse in Young People’s Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 2172-2190
Author(s):  
Margareta Hydén ◽  
David Gadd ◽  
Thomas Grund
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Young People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Intervention

Abstract Combining narrative analysis with social network analysis, this article analyses the case of a young Swedish female who had been physically and sexually abused. We show how she became trapped in an abusive relationship at the age of fourteen years following social work intervention in her family home, and how she ultimately escaped from this abuse aged nineteen years. The analysis illustrates the significance of responses to interpersonal violence from the social networks that surround young people; responses that can both entrap them in abusive relationships by blaming them for their problems and enable them to escape abuse by recognising their strengths and facilitating their choices. The article argues that the case for social work approaches that envision young people’s social networks after protective interventions have been implemented. The article explains that such an approach has the potential to reconcile the competing challenges of being responsive to young people’s needs while anticipating the heightened risk of being exposed to sexual abuse young people face when estranged from their families or after their trust in professionals has been eroded.

Co‐producing to understand what matters to young people living in youth residential rehabilitation services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Ennals ◽  
Kate Lessing ◽  
Rebecca Spies ◽  
Rebecca Egan ◽  
Philippa Hemus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Residential Rehabilitation ◽  
What Matters

scholarly journals Media Campaigns for the prevention of illicit drug use in young people

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marica Ferri ◽  
Gregor Burkhart ◽  
Elias Allara ◽  
Alessandra Bo ◽  
Anna V Gyarmathy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Media Campaigns

scholarly journals Pornography, Sexual Coercion and Abuse and Sexting in Young People’s Intimate Relationships: A European Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (19) ◽  
pp. 2919-2944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Stanley ◽  
Christine Barter ◽  
Marsha Wood ◽  
Nadia Aghtaie ◽  
Cath Larkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Online Pornography ◽  
Large Survey ◽  
The Relationship

New technology has made pornography increasingly accessible to young people, and a growing evidence base has identified a relationship between viewing pornography and violent or abusive behavior in young men. This article reports findings from a large survey of 4,564 young people aged 14 to 17 in five European countries which illuminate the relationship between regular viewing of online pornography, sexual coercion and abuse and the sending and receiving of sexual images and messages, known as “sexting.” In addition to the survey, which was completed in schools, 91 interviews were undertaken with young people who had direct experience of interpersonal violence and abuse in their own relationships. Rates for regularly viewing online pornography were very much higher among boys and most had chosen to watch pornography. Boys’ perpetration of sexual coercion and abuse was significantly associated with regular viewing of online pornography. Viewing online pornography was also associated with a significantly increased probability of having sent sexual images/messages for boys in nearly all countries. In addition, boys who regularly watched online pornography were significantly more likely to hold negative gender attitudes. The qualitative interviews illustrated that, although sexting is normalized and perceived positively by most young people, it has the potential to reproduce sexist features of pornography such as control and humiliation. Sex and relationships education should aim to promote a critical understanding of pornography among young people that recognizes its abusive and gendered values.

scholarly journals Becoming AGENDA: The Making and Mattering of a Youth Activist Resource on Gender and Sexual Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 208-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Renold
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Healthy Relationships ◽  
Ethics Of Research ◽  
What Matters

What happens when ‘the margin of manouverability’ (Massumi 2015, p.3) in a specific socio-political context is buzzing with promise and possibility? What might some crafty and serious play with the feminist posthuman ethics of research/er reponse-ability (Barad, 2007) cook up in such a conducive soup? This paper shares the pARTicipatory praxis that informed the making of ‘AGENDA: A Young People’s Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter’ (Renold, 2016). AGENDA is a 75 page youth-activist bi-lingual (Welsh-English) interactive resource co-created with and for young people in Wales to address gendered and sexual violence. Crafted with an affirmative cut and nurturing a run-a-way praxis that secretes its own co-ordinates, AGENDA invites a care-ful re-mattering of ‘what matters’ when it comes to conventional healthy relationships education. The paper offers a careful cartography of how AGENDA unfolded as a lively resource that continues to matter as it connects to policy and practice assemblages that push-pull the agential becomings of AGENDA on its way.

Victimization and Resilience: Experiences of Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Across Multiple Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110435
Author(s):  
Traci L. Wike ◽  
Leah M. Bouchard ◽  
Aaron Kemmerer ◽  
Mauricio P. Yabar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Identity Based

LGBTQ+ youth experience higher rates of interpersonal violence, such as peer-based bullying and identity-based harassment, than their counterparts. Experiences of victimization can occur across different social contexts including family, school, peers, and community. LGBTQ+ youth in rural communities may be at increased risk for identity-based victimization due in part to geographic isolation and an often conservative value system that may create a hostile environment to LGBTQ+ individuals. However, few studies have examined the experiences of rural LGBTQ+ youth from their perspectives, and how the rural context may affect their experiences with victimization and social support. This qualitative study explores the victimization experiences of rural LGBTQ+ youth, the supports available to them, and ways they show resilience. We conducted qualitative interviews with a sample of 11 young people ages 12-21, recruited in partnership with a local LGBTQ+ agency across a rural five county region in the Southeastern United States. Four themes emerged related to how rural youth navigate bullying, harassment, and victimization across different social contexts and the support that is available to them: (1) conflicting family messages, (2) navigating personal safety at school, (3) connecting through technology, and (4) confronting negative religious sentiment. A fifth theme captures the strengths of young people in the mid of victimization: (5) demonstrating individual and collective resilience. Although rural LGBTQ+ youth experience victimization in similar ways to urban and suburban youth, rural youth may have less access to social supports that buffer effects of victimization. This study highlights the strengths in rural LGBTQ+ young people as well as their commitment to supporting one another and seeing change in their communities. Findings illustrate a need for greater support for LGBTQ+ youth in rural areas while leveraging existing strength of the youth and their community for sustainable support and resources.

Young People With Borderline Personality Disorder Have an Increased Lifetime Risk of Being the Victim of Interpersonal Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052098627
Author(s):  
Marialuisa Cavelti ◽  
Katherine Thompson ◽  
Jennifer Betts ◽  
Claire Fowler ◽  
Stefan Luebbers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young People ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Lifetime Risk ◽  
Violence Intervention ◽  
Violent Offense ◽  
Increased Risk

This study aimed to examine the lifetime risk of being the victim of criminal or violent offenses among young people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) features (1-9 DSM-IV criteria). Demographic and diagnostic data from 492 outpatients who attended a specialist public mental health service for 15- to 25-year-olds between January 1998 and March 2008 were linked with offending data from a state-wide police database, collected between March 1993 and June 2017, in order to establish victimization history. This included information on criminal offenses perpetrated against these young people and intervention orders implemented to protect them from being victimized by another person’s violent behavior. Logistic regression analyses, adjusted for sex and co-occurring mental state disorders, were conducted on n = 378 who had complete data (76.5% females). As hypothesized, BPD diagnosis and number of BPD criteria were both significantly associated with an increased risk of being the victim of a violent offense and the complainant of a family violence intervention order. Anger and impulsivity independently predicted a higher risk of being the victim of a violent offense, while unstable relationships, impulsivity, and affective instability independently predicted a higher risk of being the complainant of a family violence intervention order. No significant association was found between BPD and the risk of being the victim of a nonviolent offense. These findings indicate that young people with any BPD features (even below the DSM diagnostic threshold) are at increased risk for victimization by interpersonal violence. Moreover, this risk increases according to the number of BPD criteria. This issue needs to be addressed by prevention and early intervention programs (e.g., by working on self-assertion and interpersonal skills, taking into account the possible influence of previous traumatizing relationship experiences).

scholarly journals Media campaigns for the prevention of illicit drug use in young people

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marica Ferri ◽  
Elias Allara ◽  
Alessandra Bo ◽  
Antonio Gasparrini ◽  
Fabrizio Faggiano
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
Media Campaigns

Smoking prevention and cessation in young people

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-76
Author(s):  
Emma Croghan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Smoking Habit ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Effective Interventions

Smoking is started primarily in adolescence and is responsible for nearly 80 000 preventable deaths in England per year. Children and young people are reported to become addicted to tobacco and smoking within 4 weeks of starting the habit, In this article, Emma Croghan considers how school nurses can aid in preventing children and young people from taking up smoking, focusing on effective interventions such as mass media campaigns and school or peer-based programmes. How to help young people stop once they have developed a smoking habit is also discussed, based on the Ask, Advise, Act steps for advice sessions with young people who smoke.

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