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The Evidence Hour: CVR Webinar Series

The Center for Victim Research has a new webinar series we’re calling The Evidence Hour. Every month, CVR will showcase a recent systematic review or meta-analysis about victimization, trauma, or victim services. Each webinar will feature an author of the research and a practitioner discussant who will review the findings and reflect on what they mean for victim service providers and researchers. Contact us to request any of these these articles and be added to our contact list for invitations.

Topics

• Housing Stress & Child Maltreatment with Caroline Chandler of University of North Carolina-Gillings School of Public Health and Tien Ung of Futures Without Violence.
  • (Related article: “Association of housing stress With child maltreatment: A systematic review” by Caroline Chandler et al. (2020) in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. )
• Harris County Health and Relationship Study with Barbie Brashear of the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Abeer Monem of the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, and Leila Wood of The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). 
  • (Related report:  “Harris County Health & Relationship Study: Using Research-Practice Partnerships to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence Survivor” by Leila Wood et al. (2021).)
• Teen Dating Violence Help-Seeking Among Ethnically & Racially Diverse Youth with Dr. Diana Padilla-Medina of the University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work and Dr. Carolina Vélez-Grau of the NYU Silver School of Social Work.
  • (Related article: “Teen dating violence help-seeking intentions and behaviors among ethnically and racially diverse youth: A systematic review” by D. Padilla-Medina et al. (2021) in Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.)
• Preventing & Reducing Violence Against Older Adults with Khiya Marshall Mullins, Dr.PH, MPH and Jeffrey H. Herbst, Ph.D. of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and Dr. Joy Ernst of Wayne State University.
  • (Related article: “Do interventions to prevent or stop abuse and neglect among older adults work? A systematic review of reviews” by Khiya Marshall et al. (2020). in Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect.)
• Helping without Harming: Educating Mental Health Professionals on Working with Survivors of IPV with Amber Sutton, MSW & Haley Beech, Ph.D. at the University of Alabama School of Social Work.
  • (Related article: “Preparing Mental Health Professionals to Work With Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of the Literature” by Amber Sutton et al. (2020) in Affilia.)
• Confronting School Violence and Victimization with Jillian Turanovic, Ph.D. & Krista Flannigan, J.D. at Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
  • (Related article: “Individual, Institutional, and Community Sources of School Violence: A Meta-Analysis“)
    
• Facilitators of Help-Seeking for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S. with Kristen Ravi, Ph.D., at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Sarah Leat, Ph.D. at University of Memphis, and Christina Cicconi, M.A., MSW., at Johnson County Family Crisis Center
  • (Related article: “Facilitators of Formal Help-Seeking for Adult Survivors of IPV in the United States: A Systematic Review“ by Kristen Ravi, Sarah Robinson, & Rachel Voth Schrag (2021). Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.)
• Cultural Responsivity in Domestic Violence Interventions for Immigrants in the United States with Abha Rai, Ph.D., MSW at Loyola University Chicago, Kristen Ravi, Ph.D at University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Radhika Sharma Gordon, Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home).
  • (Related article: Culturally Responsive Domestic Violence Interventions for Immigrant Communities in the United States: A Scoping Study (Author Manuscript). Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. Available upon request.)
• Bullying as a Developmental Precursor to Sexual and Dating Violence Across Adolescence with Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. and Barri Rosenbluth, MSSW, at Expect Respect.
  • (Related article: “Bullying as a Developmental Precursor to Sexual and Dating Violence Across Adolescence: Decade in Review” by D.L. Espelage et al. (2021) Trauma, Violence & Abuse.)
• Leveraging Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships to Improve Human Trafficking Prevalence Studies with Terri Galvan, MPP, at Community Against Sexual Harm (CASH), Rebecca Pfeffer, Ph.D., and Kelle Barrick, Ph.D. at RTI International.
  • (Related article: “Advances in measurement: A scoping review of prior human trafficking prevalence studies and recommendations for future research” by K. Barrick & R. Pfeffer (2021). Journal of Human Trafficking. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2021.1984721″)
• Violence Across the Lifecourse – Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Elder Mistreatment with Todd I. Herrenkohl Ph.D. at University of Michigan, Karen A. Roberto Ph.D.,  at Virginia Tech, and Sandy Bromley, JD, at Shelby County Crime Victims & Rape Crisis Center.
  • (Related article: “Child Maltreatment, Youth Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Elder Mistreatment: A Review and Theoretical Analysis of Research on Violence Across the Life Course” by T. I. Herrenkohl et al. (2022). Trauma, Violence, & Abuse)
• Social Reactions to Sexual Assault with Sarah Ullman, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago and Kris Bein, at Resource Sharing Project.
  
  • (Related article: “Correlates of Social Reactions to Victims’ Disclosures of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review” by S. E. Ullman, (2021). Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. Contact the Research Librarian for access.)

What are Systematic Reviews?

1. A systematic review is the process of bringing together all available studies about a well-defined question, analyzing the quality of their study methods, and summarizing their findings.
2. Systematic reviews often use a statistical practice called meta-analysis. This means combining data from multiple studies, to find patterns and calculate the average effect of the intervention.
3. Because systematic reviews pool results from many experiments and rate the methods of each study, these reviews increase our confidence in the quality and consistency of the evidence and what it means for the field.

Basically, systematic reviews take a large amount of information about a complex issue from multiple sources and make that information more manageable and usable. These reviews can also help make sense of conflicting findings from different studies.

Learn more from:

• Quick Reference: Systematic Reviews
• Quick Reference: Tips on Reading Research Articles

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