Empowering through education: Frameworks for relationship education, parent education, and sexual violence prevention
Cooper, E., Vandenberg, C., Hanson, E., Sherman, H., Saxey, M., Tidwell, A., O’Neal, C. W., & Lucier-Greer, M. (2024). Empowering through education: Frameworks for relationship education, parent education, and sexual violence prevention. Auburn, AL: Military REACH.
Abstract Created by REACH
Purpose: This report was created, in part, to support the Integrated Prevention Advisory Group of the U.S.
Army Reserve Command, G-1 Services and Support Division in developing and reconceptualizing
primary prevention efforts that address a range of risk and protective factors (i.e., integrated
prevention). The Military REACH team was asked to identify prevention-focused frameworks
that identify essential educational components (i.e., describe what information or skills should
be taught) and are informed by research (i.e., provide clear rationale for why that information or
skillset is essential). We focus specifically on frameworks related to:
• healthy couple relationship education,
• parent education, and
• sexual violence prevention.
To accomplish this objective, this report provides background information related to prevention
science, a review of established, research-informed conceptual frameworks in these three
prevention areas, and special considerations for family life education with military families with a
focus on geographically dispersed Reserve and National Guard members.
This report serves to inform the selection, development, and improvement of healthy relationships,
parenting, and sexual violence prevention curricula/programming within the Army Reserve and
National Guard and among service providers more generally.
Methodology: For this review, research was gathered from several electronic academic databases (e.g.,
PsycINFO, Google Scholar, the Military REACH library) and reputable websites (e.g., university
extension websites). Search terms included varying combinations of the following keywords:
sexual assault prevention, sexual harassment prevention, sexual assault prevention theory, review
of sexual assault prevention, model for sexual assault prevention, parent education framework,
relationship education, extension model for healthy relationship education, and extension model
for parenting. Information was systematically reviewed and synthesized with a lens toward
application in prevention settings.
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge and appreciate the insights from the Integrated Prevention Advisory Group of
the U.S. Army Reserve Command, in reviewing and strengthening this report.
Research summaries convey terminology used by the scientists who authored the original research article; some terminology may not align with the federal government's mandated language for certain constructs.
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