Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324787 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1702
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Cognitive 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.
Subjects: 
Gender-based violence
Violence prevention
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Executive functions
Mexico
JEL: 
J16
I31
Z18
H43
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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