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dc.titleCognitive Behavioural Therapy for Gender-based Violence Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
dc.contributor.authorMagaloni, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorMarinkovic Dal Poggetto, Sofía
dc.contributor.authorMurphy, Tommy E.
dc.contributor.authorPucci, Florencia
dc.contributor.authorSerra Fernández, Beatriz
dc.contributor.orgunitGender and Diversity Division
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2025-05-05T00:05:00
dc.date.issue2025-05-05T00:05:00
dc.description.abstractCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has become a powerful and effective tool to deal with violence in many at-risk areas in the world. However, its use for gender-based violence (GBV) and dating violence, although promising, has been limited and used as a response service for survivors, rather than for prevention. To understand to what extent such interventions can help provide tools and skills to young people in their impressionable years to produce behavioral changes that prevent GBV, we carried out such an intervention among high school students in the municipality of Ecatepec in Mexico. We assessed the intervention with a randomized control trial. We introduce the novelty of collecting objective measures from automated neuropsychological tests to explore whether CBT might be functioning through the development of subjects' executive functions. Results from this intervention fail to show any clear change in self-reported violence. They do show, however, impacts on executive functions related to violence, such as emotional recognition and inhibitory control skills.
dc.format.extent79
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0013519
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-for-Gender-based-Violence-Prevention-Evidence-from-a-Randomized-Trial-in-Mexico.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectGender-Based Violence
dc.subjectEducational Institution
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectViolence Prevention
dc.subjectRegulation
dc.subjectCognitive Development
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectSkills
dc.subjectIntimate Partner Violence
dc.subjectRisk Management
dc.subjectDebtor Finance
dc.subject.jelcodeJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
dc.subject.jelcodeI31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
dc.subject.jelcodeZ18 - Public Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeH43 - Project Evaluation • Social Discount Rate
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01702
idb.operationRG-T3729
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