Ideas for folks and teenagers to foster wholesome relationships and stop teen relationship violence

Throughout Teen Courting Violence Consciousness Month (February), Daphne King, EdD, affiliate professor of Social Work, shares suggestions for folks and teenagers to assist teenagers have protected and wholesome relationships.

Almost half (43%) of U.S. faculty girls report experiencing violent or abusive relationship behaviors, and 1 in 3 U.S. teenagers will expertise abusive habits earlier than they turn into adults, in line with the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline.

Throughout Teen Courting Violence Consciousness Month (February), George Mason College researcher Daphne King, EdD, assistant professor within the Division of Social Work, continues to carry consciousness to intimate associate violence in younger folks.

“By fostering wholesome, supportive relationships, having open communication, and educating adolescents on detecting indicators of relationship violence, we can assist forestall teen relationship violence earlier than it begins,” stated King.

Teen relationship violence has a lifelong influence on an individual’s well being and may be detrimental to an individual’s bodily and emotional well-being. Bodily, sexual, and psychological violence and stalking are all types of relationship violence and may result in delinquent behaviors and signs of despair, anxiousness, substance misuse, in addition to future unhealthy relationships.

King shares suggestions for folks and teenagers on creating wholesome relationships and stopping teen relationship violence. She beforehand shared 10 Warning Indicators of Teen Courting Violence and is obtainable for additional touch upon teen relationship violence and adolescent psychological well being.

Ideas for Teenagers

• Study teen relationship violence and the right way to detect the warning indicators
• Discuss brazenly with companions, pals, and oldsters about wholesome relationships
• Know that violence (bodily, verbal, or emotional) has no place in a wholesome relationship
• Respect your self and others
• Develop a wholesome sense of who you’re and shallowness
• Remember that victims may be any gender, sexual orientation, and race
• Get consent earlier than touching a associate
• Focus on and talk your boundaries together with your associate
• Know that you’re worthy of wholesome relationships
• Arise for others

Ideas for Mother and father

• Discuss actually and brazenly together with your teen about what wholesome relationships appear to be and that violence (verbal, bodily, or sexual) has no place in a wholesome relationship
• Know and acknowledge the indicators of abuse, in addition to the details about relationship violence
• Focus on teen relationship violence together with your youngster and assist them study the warning indicators
• Mannequin wholesome relationships
• Discuss teen relationship violence with different dad and mom to assist cut back the stigma

There are various sources out there in the event you or somebody is experiencing intimate associate or relationship violence—speak to a trusted grownup or go to loveisrespect.org for assist and assist. You may also go to samhsa.gov for added sources.

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Dr. Daphne King is an assistant professor and Grasp of Social Work on-line program director within the Social Work Division of George Mason College’s School of Public Well being. King’s analysis pursuits are shallowness points in teenagers and adolescents, psychological well being issues and remedy modalities for girls of colour, particularly African-American girls, and the influence engagement in Christianity or non secular practices have on shallowness. King is an skilled in treating teenagers and adolescents with shallowness points and despair and has facilitated quite a few scientific and psychoeducational teams on shallowness points for teenagers.

To talk with Dr. King, contact Mary Cunningham at 703-993-1931 or mcunni7@gmu.edu.

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