Strengths-Based Batterer Intervention: A New Paradigm in Ending Family Violence / Edition 1

by Catherine Simmons PhD, Peter Lehmann PhD, LCSW

Overview

Strengths-Based Batterer Intervention provides readers with new and innovative ways to approach intervention with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) offenders, one based on strengths rather than deficits. Using emerging theories about batterer intervention techniques, the book forges a new direction in the field, and the strengths-based approach offers an exciting alternative in this complex and difficult field. Key Features:
• Includes positive psychology, strengths-based theory, solution-focused practice, narrative practice, and motivational interviewing
• Assessment tools, exercises, program evaluation techniques, and case studies guide readers in applying emerging theories into successful practice
• Intervention protocols, limitations of techniques described, and case studies showing how the model works with actual clients

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826110817
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/05/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Lehmann PhD, LCSW is a retired Professor from the University of Texas at Arlington. His primary areas of research are in solution-focused brief therapy and batterer intervention programs.

Catherine Simmons, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is an Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, Department of Social Work.

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Table of Contents

Section I: A Changing Paradigm
Chapter 1: The State of Batterer Intervention Programs: An Analytical Discussion
Chapter 2: Strengths-Based Batterer Intervention: A New Direction With a Different Paradigm
Section II: Theoretical Models for Strengths Based Batterers Intervention
Chapter 3: Accountability for change: Solution-Focused Treatment of Domestic Violence Offenders
Chapter 4: Motivational Interviewing for Intimate Partner Violence
Chapter 5: Narrative Therapy: Addressing masculinity in conversations with men who perpetrate violence
Chapter 6: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Partner Abusive Men
Chapter 7: Application of the Broaden-and-Build theory of positive emotions to intimate partner violence
Chapter 8: Applying the Good Lives Model to male perpetrators of domestic violence
Section III: Practical Tools and a Look Forward
Chapter 9: Application of Strengths Based Approaches
Chapter 10: Looking Forward