PhD Candidate University of Texas at Arlington Benbrook, TX, United States
This presentation explores the possibilities of applying a novel method (social network typologies) to better understand from whom college students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities seek information about sexual consent. Implications for social work practice and prevention of disproportionately high rates of sexual violence against this population are discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how social network typology has been utilized as a method for better understanding the connections and dynamics among members of a research sample.
Describe the impact of sexual violence on college students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, as well as the role that lack of understanding of sexual consent plays in this population's disproportionately high rates of victimization.
Analyze how novel methods such as social network typologies can be utilized to prevent the disproportionately high impact of sexual violence on people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
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