The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 21 May 2024 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by Natalie Davidson.

About the Seminar:

Lessons from a parenting programme to reduce violence against women and violence against children

Violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC) interconnect. Parenting programmes may offer promise for preventing both forms of violence, through supporting parenting as an avenue for reducing inter-parental context, and for engaging men without stigma.

We adapted the Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) Teen programme to include a more explicit focus on preventing VAW and the engagement of fathers in the Zimbabwean context. A mixed-methods embedded intervention design was used to assess changes in VAW and VAC from baseline to end line. Findings show that this adapted programme can work to prevent VAW and VAC at the same time. Along with significant reductions in both forms of violence, this study suggests that this programme leads to reductions in co-parenting struggles, abusive parenting, parenting stress, and teen behaviour problems and increases in positive parenting and equitable gender attitudes.

Participants and facilitators spoke to benefits, including improved relationships between parents and teens and between co-parenting partners and between themselves and their community, families now doing things together, less conflict and tension in the home, changes to gender attitudes, teen behaviour improvements and teens now thinking about future relationships more positively.

Speakers

Natalie Davidson is a Senior Research Assistant at the Adolescent Accelerators Research Hub. She holds a B.So.Sci in Psychology & Politics and Governance, a B.So.Sci (Honours) in Psychology and an MA in Psychological Research from the University of Cape Town. She has a great passion for violence prevention, especially the intersection between violence against women and violence against children as well as improving the lives of adolescents.

 21 May 2024
 12:45 - 14:00 SAST
  CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa