ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2022
Stepping Stones and Creating Futures: A group-based approach to addressing violence against women through working with men.
Article in Journal of clinical psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Cluster randomized controlled trial of Stepping Stones and Creating Futures to reduce mental health challenges among young men in informal settlements in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Intimate partner controlling behaviour and intimate partner violence among married women in rural areas in South Africa.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Stepping Stones and Creating Futures Plus: A pilot randomised controlled trial of a co-developed intervention with young South Africans.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Prevention approaches aimed at men who commit violence against women: a scoping review.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Article
- Adaptation and pre-test of a shortened Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention focused on HIV for young men in rural South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Stepping Stones and Creating Futures: A group-based approach to addressing violence against women through working with men.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
In low- and middle-income countries, group-based interventions to address intimate partner violence (IPV) working with men, whether or not they are violent themselves, are increasingly common. Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SSCF) is one intervention demonstrating reductions in men's perpetration of IPV through working with men around gender inequalities and livelihoods. Using a case study of Thembani, a young man living in an urban informal settlement in South Africa who was a participant within a large randomized controlled trial evaluating SSCF, we discuss how his use of violence changed. This reduction occurred through recognition that his situation was not a personal failing, but similar to others, thus reducing the shame he felt, learning to control his anger, and starting to understand how others felt when he used his power over others. This case study provides some initial evidence about how group-based interventions working with men may start to transform men's practices.
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