Group treatment program for abusive husbands: Long-term evaluation.

Palmer, Sally; Brown, Ralph Adams; Barrera, Maru

doi:10.1037/h0079336

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“…The main components of this type of intervention include strategies that target thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and are conveyed through a mixture of psychoeducation, homework assignments, cognitive reframing, and self-esteem enhancement (Palmer, Brown, & Barrera, 1992). Interpersonal deficits are also targeted through a skills training approach.…”

Section: Psychotherapeutic and Cognitive-behavioral Therapy Modelmentioning

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Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

Armenti²,

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In the United States, the judicial system response to violence between intimate partners, or intimate partner violence (IPV), typically mandates that adjudicated perpetrators complete a batterer intervention program (BIP). The social science data has found that these programs, on the whole, are only minimally effective in reducing rates of IPV. The authors examined the social science literature on the characteristics and efficacy of BIPs. More than 400 studies were considered, including a sweeping, recently conducted survey of BIP directors across the United States and Canada. Results of this review indicate that the limitations of BIPs are due, in large part, to the limitations of current state standards regulating these programs and, furthermore, that these standards are not grounded in the body of empirical research evidence or best practices. The authors, all of whom have considerable expertise in the area of domestic violence perpetrator treatment, conducted an exhaustive investigation of the following key intervention areas: overall effectiveness of BIPs; length of treatment/length of group sessions; number of group participants and number of facilitators; group format and curriculum; assessment protocol and instruments; victim contact; modality of treatment; differential treatment; working with female perpetrators; working with perpetrators in racial and ethnic minority groups; working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) perpetrators; perpetrator treatment and practitioner–client relationships; and required practitioner education and training. Recommendations for evidence-based national BIP standards were made based on findings from this review.

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Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

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“…Furthermore, several reviews found that the use of weaker research designs produces greater apparent treatment effects for batterer programs (e.g., Babcock et al 2004;Feder and Wilson 2005). Accordingly, by the early 2000s, interest had grown in a limited number of more rigorous studies, especially a group of four randomized trials (Davis et al 2000;Dunford 2000;Feder and Dugan 2002;Palmer et al 1992). Of these studies, one found that batterer programs produced lower rates of re-offending, but three found that the programs had no effect (see Feder and Wilson 2005, and see the re-analysis of the frequently misinterpreted Brooklyn results in this volume, Davis et al).…”

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“…These included a small sample size of fewer than 100 offenders in Hamilton, Ontario (Palmer et al 1992), a sampling frame composed solely of Navy personnel in San Diego (Dunford 2000), significant deviations from the intended randomization protocol in Brooklyn (Davis et al 2000), and a low response rate for victim interviews (three of the four trials, excluding San Diego). Accordingly, there remained a need for further rigorous study.…”

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Lessons learned from the implementation of two randomized trials in a criminal court setting

2010

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Randomized trials represent the most rigorous type of research design to measure the impact of a social policy intervention. However, such designs are difficult to implement and require the consent of multiple parties, including researchers and nonresearchers. Unique challenges arise when seeking to implement such a design in a criminal court setting, due to the need to revise legal procedures, uphold due process for defendants, and obtain the direct, ongoing participation of judges and attorneys, among other stakeholders. The current principals recently conducted two randomized trials concerning the court response to intimate partner violence: one testing the impact of court-ordered batterer programs in the Bronx, New York, and a second testing the impact of intensive judicial monitoring in Rochester, New York. Key lessons involved forging collaborative stakeholder relationships, critically assessing the experimental intervention and its contrast with the control condition, ensuring legal due process for defendants, addressing victim safety, setting realistic timetables, adopting a skeptical view towards estimates of study volume, and anticipating substantial variation from original design to final plan, especially in regards to randomization protocols and defendant eligibility criteria. These lessons may prove invaluable in informing future research in court-based and other social settings where random assignment is pursued.

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“…They noted that only five studies consisted of true experimental designs using random assignment of batterers to different conditions (including no-treatment). Of these five studies (Davis, Taylor, & Maxwell, 2001;Dunford, 1998;Feder & Forde, 1999;Ford & Regoli, 1993;Palmer, Brown, & Barrera, 1992), random assignment was compromised in two, the Navy study (Dunford, 1998(Dunford, , 2000 was not representative of the overall population of batterers, and Palmer et al (1992) was limited by a small sample size. Based on the inclusion of these experimental designs as well as additional quasi-experimental designs, Babcock et al determined that the overall effect size of batterer intervention programs relative to no-treatment was in the "small" range, with even smaller effect sizes observed in the five experimental studies.…”

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Stages of Change and the Group Treatment of Batterers

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2007

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A Stages of Change (SOC) treatment approach, supplemented by Motivational Interviewing techniques (Miller & Rollnick, 2002), was compared with a standard cognitive-behavioral therapy gender-reeducation (CBTGR) approach for its effectiveness in reducing men's violence against their partners. A total of 528 male batterers from the Montgomery County, Maryland Abused Persons Program were randomly assigned to 49 26-week groups in either the SOC or CBTGR condition. English-speaking and Spanish-speaking groups were conducted in both treatment conditions. While certain differences emerged between English-and Spanish-speakers and their partners, men in the two treatment conditions (and their partners) did not differ with respect to demographics, lifetime violence, psychopathology, multiple admissions, histories of trauma, or source of referral as a function of their assignment to different treatment conditions. Differences between women who were successfully contacted for follow-up and those who were not were minimal, indicating the generalizability of victim follow-up reports.Self-reported aggression at post-treatment was unrelated to treatment condition. However, based on victim follow-up reports, the SOC curriculum was more effective than standard treatment in reducing women's risk for physical aggression, especially among English-speakers. The SOC condition was particularly effective for first-time offenders, for men who were court-ordered to treatment and for men in an earlier underlying stage of change. On the other hand, the SOC condition was no more effective than the CBTGR condition in reducing the violence of men with multiple admissions, suggesting the need for warning their victims and for using a coordinated community response. The SOC condition was also not effective for men who were self-referred to treatment, presumably because it did not quickly provide the anger-management and conflict resolution skills these men were seeking. The two treatments did not differ in rates of attendance (either number of sessions attended or treatment completion), working alliance or group cohesion. Different predictors of attendance did emerge between the two conditions. Moreover, blind ratings of audiotapes of sessions significantly differentiated the two conditions. Specific treatment considerations for Spanish-speakers were explored as was the necessity of attending to the trauma histories of both men and their partners. Finally, the reactions of therapists working with the SOC curriculum were described as were the limitations of this study and suggestions for future research. It was concluded that within the context of these limitations, this project allowed a fairly rigorous but also realistic test of the usefulness of SOC treatment in reducing men's risk for violence.

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Group treatment program for abusive husbands: Long-term evaluation.

Cited by 106 publications

References 10 publications

Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programs: A Proposal for Evidence-Based Standards in the United States

Lessons learned from the implementation of two randomized trials in a criminal court setting

Stages of Change and the Group Treatment of Batterers

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