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Article: Addressing sexual assault on college campuses: guidelines for a prevention/awareness week.
- Article from:
- Journal of College Counseling
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
- Author:
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The authors discuss concepts that are related to providing education and training regarding sexual assault, as outlined by the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, as amended in 1992. Because college counseling center staff members often initiate and plan campus outreach prevention programs, an outline is provided of a prevention/awareness week intervention that is designed to address sexual assault on university and college campuses.
Sexual assault has become an important issue on college and university campuses in recent years. In a landmark study, Koss, Gidycz, and Wisniewski (1987) found that 1 out of every 4 women on college and university ...