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Publication Date: 2019
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Teen Dating Violence with LGBTQ Students: A Call to Practice
Anater, Alexine F.; Dion, Tessa
Communique, v47 n5 p1, 28-29 Jan-Feb 2019
Approximately 30% of adolescents in the United States who date were affected by teen dating violence (TDV) in 2013, according to self-report from the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS; Vagi, Olsen, Basile, & Vivolo-Kantor, 2015). Limited interest in researching TDV arose around 30 years ago. In the past 10 years, research on TDV and national and local recognition of TDV has increased dramatically. In fact, in 2008, the United States Senate unanimously declared that yearly, the first full week of February be dedicated to National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention (Ayers & Davies, 2011). Additionally, research has discovered that there are several protective factors and risk factors that may alert school officials of the likelihood of TDV occurring. Unfortunately, very little of this research has focused on a population that may be at an increased risk: youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ; Gillum, 2017). Students in the LGBTQ community may be at heightened risk because they tend to be impacted by several different risk factors simultaneously. These students require specific interventions that address multiple areas of risk as well as their unique experiences associated with reporting TDV and bullying (Gillum, 2017). There are opportunities to address risk factors and to provide students with interventions in a school setting. While an abundance of research exists on TDV, it is important to further examine specific interventions for students in the LGBTQ community because they face such unique circumstances surrounding TDV and reporting violence. Therefore, interventions and services should be individualized for students who identify as LGBTQ (Ayers & Davies, 2011).
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dating (Social), Violence, Interpersonal Relationship, Prevention, At Risk Persons, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Intervention, Social Bias, School Psychologists, Role
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