Healthy Relationships Training Study: A Comparison of Interventions to Reduce Dating Violence on College Campuses

"This intervention teaches students mindfulness-based skills to help manage their emotions when resolving conflict with their partners. The skills followed the ABCDE acronym. ABCDE stands for awareness, breathing, checking in with your feelings and thoughts, describing your experience, and expressing what you want to change. Students learned about the skills and had opportunities to practice them as well."

This intervention is based on the Love is Not Abuse (LINA) Curriculum (Liz Claiborne Education Development Center (n.d.)). It was adapted to be given over the course of three 50-minute sessions. The selected materials covered (a) what dating abuse is, (b) the pattern of abuse and, (c) technology and dating abuse. The curriculum is interactive and includes handouts, activities, and discussion.