Domestic Violence and Group Counseling

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This paper attempts to put forward the complexity of domestic violence and its embeddedness in human culture. It discusses how it is not a problem only in the United States, or only in certain parts of the world but is a problem of violence and control that exists in many societies.
It looks at the policy decision in the United States that domestic
violence is unacceptable behavior and how it is necessary to change behaviors of both victims and offenders in order to reduce, or eliminate,
the problem. It evaluates how offenders groups have proved to be successful in many instances as well as a coordinated community intervention for domestic violence.

From the Paper:

"In working with perpetrators who are either voluntary attendees at offender groups, or involuntary attendees who have some sense that their behavior is unjustifiable, there are several approaches to use. Most use some combination of anger management training, along with teaching of improved interpersonal skills. One of the most important of those is communication skills. In their study, Whitchurch and Pace (1993) suggested that communication skills intervention, and training, would actually be helpful to both parties in a domestic violence situation. They approach the problem from a relational perspective, indicating that the treatment literature supports communication skills training as the best means to change communication patterns between the partners. In some instances of domestic violence that is limited to verbal violence, this might be sufficient, but additional interventions are necessary when physical, or sexual, assault is involved in the abuse pattern."

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