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 Reducing Repeat Sexual Assault Victimization: Design and Tes
Award Information
Awardee
              Vera Institute of Justice
Award #
              2002-WG-BX-0008
Location
                    Brooklyn, NY
Congressional District
              7
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2002
Total funding (to date)
              $299,990
Original Solicitation
              The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2002, $299,990)
Project Summary for 2002-WG-BX-0008

The Vera Institute of Justice in partnership with Safe Horizon and the Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress at the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center propose to develop an intervention to help sexual assault survivors reduce the risk of further assault. In the exploratory phase, in-depth interviews will be conducted with survivors of multiple sexual assaults in New York and Seattle, in order to identify factors surrounding (re) victimization in an urban community sample. Based on these interviews and on prevention programs developed by others, we will develop a brief intervention to reduce the risk of further victimizations. The intervention will use a harm reduction/psycho-educational approach, intended not to heal the psychological wounds, which may require a long course of therapy, but to keep the survivor safe while recovering from the assaults. In the second phase, the intervention will be field-tested on another sample of survivors of multiple sexual assaults currently receiving counseling services. Follow up measures will be collected on the field test sample and on a control group of survivors of multiple assaults who have not received the intervention. Follow up measures will assess the program's short-term impact on risky behaviors; cognitions about control and self-blame; and revictimization. The goal is to develop an approach that will assist rape counselors in helping vulnerable survivors reduce the risk of re-assault while in counseling and afterwards.


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                      Reducing Sexual Revictimization: A Field Test with an Urban Sample




  
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                      http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20345

  
Date Created: July 7, 2002
    
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