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- Title
The Men's Domestic Abuse Check-Up.
- Authors
Roffman, Roger A.; Edleson, Jeffrey L.; Neighbors, Clayton; Mbilinyi, Lyungai; Walker, Denise
- Abstract
Batterer intervention programs primarily work with individuals mandated to participate. Commonly, attrition is high and outcomes are modest. Motivational enhancement therapy (MET), most widely studied in the substance abuse field, offers a potentially effective approach to improving self-referral to treatment, program retention, treatment compliance, and posttreatment outcomes among men who batter and who abuse substances. A strategy for using a catalyst variant of MET (a "check-up") to reach untreated, nonadjudicated perpetrators is described in detail. Unique challenges in evaluating the success of this approach are discussed, including attending to victim safety and determining indicators of increased motivation for change.
- Subjects
ABUSIVE men; MOTIVATIONAL interviewing; BEHAVIOR modification; SUBSTANCE abuse; ABUSIVE behavior; VICTIMS of abuse
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2008, Vol 14, Issue 5, p589
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801208315526