Keynote Presentation
Abstract
Dr. Charlene Senn holds a Canada Research Chair in Sexual Violence and is a Professor in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program within the Department of Psychology. She is cross-appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research centres on male violence against women with a focus on sexual violence and campus interventions.
Over more than 10 years, Dr. Senn developed and evaluated a sexual assault resistance education program (EAAA) for first-year University women. The efficacy of this intervention was demonstrated recently in a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial in which the one-year incidence of completed rape was reduced by almost 50% in women who took the intervention compared to those in the control group. The EAAA is now available to universities and colleges through the SARE Centre non-profit and a Train-the-Trainer model. See SARECentre.org for more detail. With CIHR funding, Dr. Senn is now studying the effectiveness of the EAAA program as it is implemented on Canadian campuses.
Keynote Presentation
Dr. Charlene Senn holds a Canada Research Chair in Sexual Violence and is a Professor in the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program within the Department of Psychology. She is cross-appointed in Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research centres on male violence against women with a focus on sexual violence and campus interventions.
Over more than 10 years, Dr. Senn developed and evaluated a sexual assault resistance education program (EAAA) for first-year University women. The efficacy of this intervention was demonstrated recently in a CIHR-funded randomized controlled trial in which the one-year incidence of completed rape was reduced by almost 50% in women who took the intervention compared to those in the control group. The EAAA is now available to universities and colleges through the SARE Centre non-profit and a Train-the-Trainer model. See SARECentre.org for more detail. With CIHR funding, Dr. Senn is now studying the effectiveness of the EAAA program as it is implemented on Canadian campuses.