Jeff R. Temple, P.h.D is the John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch, as well as a Licensed Psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Violence Prevention. His research focuses on the prevention of interpersonal, community, and structural violence, and has been funded through the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has over 230 scholarly publications in a variety of high-impact journals including JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. He recently co-edited a book on adolescent dating violence, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention and is on the editorial boards of four other scientific journals. Dr. Temple recently co-chaired the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Psychological Association. Locally, he served for 7 years as the Vice President of the Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees. His work has been featured on CNN, New York Times, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and even the satirical website, The Onion.
Research Interests:
- Prevention Science
- Implementation Science
- Teen dating and intimate partner violence
- Adolescent health
- Relationships
- Psychology
- Sexting and social media
Jeff Temple PhD
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Fourth R Implementation
Fourth R Implementation
The primary aims of this CDC funded implementation study are to:
- Assess initial feasibility, quality, acceptability, engagement, adaptation, and satisfaction with Fourth R,
- Examine school-, teacher-, and student-level barriers to high-fidelity implementation and correlates of low fidelity to the intervention protocol,
- Determine sustainability and impact of experience on implementation by assessing changes over the course of the study in fidelity, feasibility, acceptability, satisfaction, and engagement, and
- Evaluate effects of initial implementation fidelity and change over time on students' changes in attitudes, knowledge, skills, intentions, and behavior related to teen dating violence.
For more information on the Fourth R program, please visit 4R/Prevention and www.youthrelationships.org
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Fourth R Evaluation
Fourth R Evaluation
The NIH funded school-based cluster randomized trial of the 7th-grade version of Fourth R includes 24 ethnically diverse middle schools (ie, clusters: 12 intervention schools, 12 control schools) in area schools to determine the impact of the program by comparing students in intervention schools with those in control schools.
The primary aim is to determine whether Fourth R reduces students’ teen dating violence.
The secondary aims are to determine whether Fourth R:
- improves students’ relationship quality, emotional well-being, and increases their acquisition and use of healthy relationship skills
- ameliorates the modifiable cognitive and behavioral correlates associated with the perpetration and victimization of TDV
- improves school climate
For more information on the Fourth R program, please visit and www.youthrelationships.org
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Dating it Safe (Longitudinal)
Dating it Safe (Longitudinal)
The purpose of the NIH and NIJ- funded Dating it Safe study is to examine the longitudinal risk and protective factors of dating violence (or adolescent relationship abuse). A sample of 1,042 high school students were recruited from seven public high schools and assessed as freshman/sophomore high school students in 2010 and have been assessed annually.
This study has already generated some of the first data demonstrating
- a temporal link between substance use and domestic violence (DV),
- the intergenerational link between witnessing mother-to-father violence and DV perpetration and victimization(in press),
- the importance of considering sexual orientation in examining DV,
- the association between DV and borderline personality disorder,
- teen sexting and sexual behaviors, including a longitudinal association,
- the course and stability of DV over time,
- a longitudinal relationship between DV and risky sexual behavior among females,
- that sexual minority youth report higher levels of borderline features than heterosexual youth,
- a prospective relationship between between avoidance of internal states and borderline features in adolescents, and
- the role of parental closeness in mediating the relationship between problematic parental substance and adolescent substance use.
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City of Houston Collaboration
City of Houston Collaboration
The purpose of this CDC-funded project is to implement effective healthy relationship programs in Houston area high schools situated in high crime/violence areas. The evaluation component will focus on monitoring both the implementation (fidelity, adaptation) and outcomes of Fourth R and Healthy Relationships Plus Program (HRPP), and will utilize school-based youth risk assessments, observations, and student and teacher surveys.