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A Theater Intervention To Prevent Teen Dating Violence For Mexican-American Middle School Students, Ruth Belknap, Kristin Haglund, Holly Felzer, Jessica E. Pruszynski, John Schneider
A Theater Intervention To Prevent Teen Dating Violence For Mexican-American Middle School Students, Ruth Belknap, Kristin Haglund, Holly Felzer, Jessica E. Pruszynski, John Schneider
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Purpose
To test a theater intervention designed to raise awareness of the dynamics and consequences of teen dating violence (TDV) and to facilitate creation of nonviolent responses to TDV among Latino and Latina adolescents. The intervention was based on Theater of the Oppressed, which advocates the use of theater methods to explore social issues and to allow audiences to experiment with problem-solving, thereby promoting change.
Methods
This study used a pretest–posttest, no control group, mixed-measures design to study 66 Mexican-American adolescents (mean age, 13.4 ± 5 years). Two plays containing subtle and overt signs of control and abuse were written …