Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance

Associate Professor (Research) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio University, where she studied under the apprenticeship of Dr. Christine A. Gidycz in the Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Sexual Assault. In concert with collaborators, she has published three prior evaluations of sexual assault prevention programs for college women (Gidycz et al., 2006; Orchowski et al., 2008; Gidycz et al., 2015), as well as prevention approaches for college men (Orchowski et al., 2018; Gidycz et al., 2011), and has authored work on the implementation of sexual assault prevention programs for men (Gidycz et al., 2011), and the supervision of such work (Orchowski et al., 2011). As a Principal Investigator, she completed a NIAAA-funded research examining sexual assault prevention with college men, and is currently the Principal Investigator of two CDC-funded evaluations of sexual assault prevention, risk reduction, and bystander intervention programming among high school and middle school students, and a Department of Defense Funded evaluation of sexual assault prevention for men in the military. She has previously published Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice with Elsevier, as well as Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theory, Research and Practice with American Psychological Association. Christine Gidycz is a developer and evaluator of the Ohio University Sexual Assault Risk Reduction Program. This program has sustained development, evaluation and revision across 7 outcome studies over the past 20 years. Dr. Gidycz has received funding from the Ohio Department of Health as well as the Centers for Disease Control. She is the author of numerous manuscripts addressed sexual assault risk reduction, sexual assault prevention, and risk factors for violence

• 1. Introduction 2. The Current State of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction3. The Consequences of Rape: Ensuring that Interventions are Trauma InformedPART 2: Risk and Protective Factors4. Risk for Rape Across the Ecosystem: Outlining a Framework for Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education5. Perpetrator Characteristics: Implications for Risk Reduction Programming, Policy and Sanctioning on College Campuses6. “I thought it could never happen to me”: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Risk for Violence7. Psychological Barriers to Resistance8. Fighting Back! Efficacy of Women’s Resistance Strategies to Rape9. Alcohol Use and Risk for Sexual ViolencePART 3: Intervention Approaches and Efficacy10. Approaches to Sexual Assault Risk Reduction, Resistance, and Self Defense11. Efficacy of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance Education Programs12. Efficacy of Self Defense Training for Rape Resistance13. Sexual Violence as a Global Health Problem: Theory and Intervention EfficacyPART 4: Special Populations and Topics14. Reducing Risk for Revictimization: Rationale and Intervention Approaches15. Risk Reduction among LGBTQ Populations16. Intersection of Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and HIV Prevention 17. Preventing the “Second Assault”:  Strategies for Enhancing Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization