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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Psychol. 2023 Apr 10;51(7):2861–2886. doi: 10.1002/jcop.23047

TABLE 2.

Sessions and goals.

Session Goals
Session 1 - Increase awareness of power-based personal violence and its prevalence among teens
- Correct students’ misperceptions of peer beliefs about sexual violence and bystander responsibility
- Increase empathy towards victims of sexual violence
Session 2 - Increase students’ awareness of non-verbal communication skills and personal boundaries
- Increase knowledge of what constitutes sexual harassment and sexual assault
- Increase knowledge of consent
- Increase knowledge of options for reporting sexual violence
- Increase awareness of alcohol -related risk for sexual victimization and aggression
- Increase students’ likelihood to intervene as active bystanders to address risk
- Increase identification of risk factors for sexual violence
Session 3 (Boys) - Decrease peer pressure to engage in sexual activity
- Debunk misperceptions of the commonality of false accusations of sexual violence, and increase awareness of how labeling an accusation as “false” contributes to victim blaming
- Decrease ascription to rape myths
- Increase knowledge and understanding of consent, and discuss strategies to give and gamer it
Session 3 (Girls) - Increase awareness of psychological barriers to assessing, acknowledging, and responding to risk
- Increase knowledge of perpetrator tactics and characteristics
- Increase skills for responding to risky situations
- Increase self-efficacy in responding to risk
Session 4 - Decrease barriers to engaging in bystander intervention
- Increate intentions to intervene to address violence
- Increase awareness of positive school norms