Self-determined goals in a solution-focused batterer intervention program: Application for building client strengths and solutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Whitehill Bolton ◽  
Peter Lehmann ◽  
Catheleen Jordan ◽  
Laura Frank ◽  
Blaine Moore
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Program Application ◽  
Client Strengths ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

Discourse After a Batterer Intervention Program: A Qualitative Analysis of “Letters From the Future”

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 593-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Kilgore ◽  
Peter Lehmann ◽  
Rachel Voth Schrag
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Writing Assignment ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

This exploratory study employs discourse and narrative analysis to assess men’s ( n = 45) responses to a writing assignment completed at the end of a solution-focused voluntary batterer intervention program. The study finds that the men primarily use the assignment to reassure themselves of their future success, defined through traditionally male paradigms. The narrative analysis then divides the letters according to type: Participants (22.7%) use a “transformative” discourse of behavior change and intimate partner violence (IPV)-sustaining discourse (18.2%), but the plurality (38.6%) use both simultaneously. The ideological conflict demonstrated in these responses highlights how IPV-sustaining discourse is embedded within broader sociocultural discursive structures.

Predictors of Batterer Intervention Program Attrition

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mohr Carney ◽  
Frederick P. Buttell ◽  
John Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Program ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
Program Attrition ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

In Their Own Words: Attributed Causes of Own Intimate Partner Violence

Partner Abuse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Raison ◽  
Donald Dutton
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Batterer Intervention ◽  
College Community ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Gender Paradigm ◽  
Batterer Intervention Program

A review of 20 articles (with a collective N of 16,463) was conducted assessing reasons given by perpetrators for their commission of intimate partner violence (IPV). College, community, and batterer intervention program samples were used. Five studies used Follingstad's (1991) Motivation and Effects Questionnaire to assess reported motivations. This had an advantage in standardizing the definitions of motives, which varied widely in other studies. Perpetrators of IPV, whether male or female, do not describe their motives in gender-political terms. Instead, they describe them in psychological terms, such as anger, frustration, or gaining attention. The most frequently endorsed reasons were anger (68% by women, 47% by men) and gaining attention (53% by women, 55% by men). Self-defense was the least endorsed (7th of seven motives). The implications of this finding for the gender paradigm are discussed.

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