Table of Contents

Foreword, Linda G. Mills; Acknowledgments; Introduction, John Hamel and Tonia Nicholls; Part One: Research and Theory; * Domestic Violence: A Gender-Inclusive Conception, John Hamel; * Thinking Outside the Box: Gender and Court-Mandated Therapy, Donald Dutton; * The Therapeutic Problem With the Duluth Model; * The Theoretical problem With the Duluth Model; * Anger and Violence; * Subtypes of perpetrators; * Treatment Outcome Studies of the Duluth Model; * Expanded Targets for Perpetrator Treatment; * Treatment of Female Batterers; * Couple Violence and Treatment; * Interactional Studies; * Couples Therapy; * Risk Factors for Physical Violence between Dating Partners: Implications for Gender-Inclusive Prevention and Treatment of Family Violence, Rose A. Medeiros and Murray A. Straus; * Relevance of Information on Dating Partners; * Previous Research on Gender Differences in Risk Factors; * Percent of Studies Finding Similar Results For Men and Women; * Method; * Results; * Discussion; * Power and Control in Relationship Aggression, Nicola Graham-Kevan; * Terminology; * Consequences of Controlling Behavior; * Theories of Controlling Behaviour. * Empirical Research on Controlling Behaviors and Partner Violence; * Women's Shelter & Batterer Intervention Studies; * Scales That Measure Controlling Behaviors: A Selected Review; * Implications of the Controlling Behavior Literature; * Intimate Stalking and Partner Violence, Stacey L. Williams, Irene Hanson Frieze, H. Colleen Sinclair; * Stalking Defined; * Stalking in the Context of Breakup; * Courtship Stalking and its Link to Breakup Stalking; * Issues of Gender in Stalking and Partner Violence; * Clinical Implications of Stalking; * Couple Violence: A New Look at Some Old Fallacies, Patricia Noller, Laurance Robillard; * Women and Violence; * The Levels of Analysis Issue; * Male Potential for Abuse; * Domestic Violence Typologies, Nicola Graham-Kevan; * Theories of Partner Violence; * Typology Theory and Research; * The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children's Development, Patrick T. Davies, Melissa L. Sturge-Apple; * Child Adaptation to Domestic Violence: The Context of Interparental Interactions; * Mediating Mechanisms Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence; * Moderating Conditions Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence; * Bidirectional Processes Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence Summary and Implications; * Family Lessons in Attachment and Aggression: The Impact of Interparental Violence on Adolescent Adjustment,; * Developmental Pathways to Aggression and Violence; * Exposure to Family Violence: Implications for Youth Aggression; * Lessons Learned from Interparental Violence; * Do the Effects of Maternal Versus Paternal IPV on Daughters and Sons Differ?; * Implications for Future Research; * From Research to Prevention & Intervention; * The Evolution of Battering Interventions: From the Dark Ages into the Scientific Age, Julia C. Babcock, Brittany Canady, Katherine Graham, Leslie Schart; * Grassroots Movement; * Why Doesn't the Feminist Psychoeducational Model Work Better?; * Is the Duluth Model Set up to Fail?; * On the Road Towards the Scientific Era; * Where Do We Go From Here?; * Different Formats for Interventions; * Who should be targeted in interventions for domestic violence?; * Interventions for situational violence; * Interventions for characterological violence; * Tailoring for specific cultural groups; * Women arrested for domestic violence; * Conclusions; Part Two: Assessment and Treatment; * Gender-Inclusive Family Interventions in Domestic Violence: An overview, John Hamel; * The Evolution of Family Interventions; * The Gender-Inclusive Approach; * Violence Risk Assessments with Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Abuse, Tonia Nicholls, Sarah L. Desmarais, Kevin S. Douglas, P. Randall Kropp; * Pitfalls to Avoid in Conducting Risk Assessments: Judgment Errors in Human Decision Making and Cognitive Simplification Strategies that can Backfire; * Methods for Reducing Reliance on Heuristics and Biases to Improving Decision Making Accuracy; * General Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment: An Overview of Leading Methods; * Assessing Men and Women for Risk of Perpetrating Abuse in Intimate Relationships; * The Value of Violence Risk Assessment Instruments Developed to Assess General Offending; * Conclusions and Implications; * Male Victims of Domestic Violence, David L. Fontes. * Addressing the Problem of Male Victims of Domestic Violence:; * Obstacle One: Men and Patriarchy:; * Obstacle Two: Feminism; * Obstacle Three: Gender Politics:; * Treating the Male Victim of Domestic Violence:; * Domestic Violence in Ethno-Cultural Minority Groups, Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Denise A. Hines, Doe West, Jesse J. Tauriac, Mizuho Arai; * North American Native American Communities; * African American Communities; * Hispanic/Latino Communities; * Asian American communities; * Conclusions; * Systems Considerations in Working with Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders, Lonnie Hazlewood; * A Developing Clinical Perspective; * The Criminal Justice Response; * Treatment Approaches To Domestic Violence; * Group treatment; * Case Example No. 1; * Case Example No. 2; * Treatment of Psychological and Physical Aggression in a Couple Context, K. Daniel O'Leary and Shiri Cohen; * Who Are Appropriate Candidates for Treating Aggression Conjointly?; * What Evidence Supports a Couple Based Approach?; * Arguments for Treating Psychological and Physical Aggression in a Couple Context; * Screening Appropriate Clients for Couple Treatment; * A Dyadic Treatment Model; * Overview of Treatment Program; * Initial Stages of Treatment; * Mid Stages of Treatment; * Follow-Up; * Couple Violence and Couple Safety: A Systemic and Attachment-Oriented Approach to Working with Complexity and Uncertainty, Arlene Vetere and Jan Cooper; * Building a Safe Context for Practice; * Complexity and Uncertainty: Working with Jane and John; * Dangerous Dances: Treating Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Couples, Vallerie E. Coleman; * Overview of Violence in Lesbian and Gay Couples; * Assessment; * Treatment; * Case Example - Joel and Martin; * Summary; * Treatment of Family Violence: A Systemic Perspective, Michael Thomas; * Why we commit violence against the people we love; * Our splintered response to family violence; * A Family-Systems Approach; * How does Attachment Theory help us to treat Family Violence?; * What about the children?; * Balancing Safety and Family Therapy; * The advantages of family therapy; * The therapist's stance; * Treating ""Perpetrators"" and ""Victims""; * Calming our own anxiety; * Anger, Aggression, Domestic Violence, and Substance Abuse, Ronald T. Potter-Effron; * Common themes, situations and messages for families in which both family violence and substance abuse are co-occurring problems.; * The challenge to core paradigms in both fields.; * Possible relationships between alcoholism/substance abuse and anger/aggression/domestic abuse.; * Research correlations between substance abuse and domestic violence.; * Types of domestic abusers and substance abuse.; * Assessment questions.; * Case study: An angry man who becomes dangerous to his wife when he drinks.; * Case study of an angry and violent ""needy"" woman. * Case study of a family with violence and substance abuse issues: ""Who gets to throw the turkey this year?""; * Therapy with Clients Accused of Domestic Violence in Disputed Child Custody Cases, Michael Carolla; * One Size Doesn't Fit All; * Batterer intervention program; * Anger management groups/classes; * High conflict/family violence parent groups; * Therapeutic supervised visitation; * Co-parenting mediation; * Family therapy; * Case Examples; * Conclusion; * Family Therapy and Interpersonal Violence: Targeting At-Risk Adolescent Mothers, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Lisa A. Turner, Marilyn McGowan; * Parenting Interventions with Adolescent Mothers; * Intimate Partner Relationship Interventions with Adolescent Mothers; * The Building a Lasting Love Relationship Intervention; * Future Directions; * Family Group Therapy: A Domestic Violence Program for Youth and Parents, Nancy Carole Rybski; * Background and Justification; * Neidig and Friedman's Domestic Violence Program; * Research Design; * Results; * Discussion; * Discussion of Differences; * Directions for Future Research; * Family Violence Parent Groups, Darlene Pratt and Tom Chapman; * Peace Creations; * Healing Child Victims and their Parents in the Aftermath of Family Violence, Christina M. Dalpiaz; * Popular Terminology - The Buzzwords; * Changing the impact abuse has on individual parent/child relationships; * Generating Plans to Meet Children's Goals; * Big picture concepts; * Cognitive Processing - Arranging Thoughts; * Gender-Inclusive Work with Victims and Their Children in a Co-ed Shelter, Carol Ensign and Patricia Jones; * The Shelter Movement; * The Valley Oasis Shelter: Origins; * The Co-ed Model; * Cooperation with Law Enforcement and Batterer Intervention Programs; * Responses from the Domestic Violence Community; * Responses from Victims and their Families; * Addressing Safety Concerns; * Clinical Services; * Case Examples; * Post-Discharge Services; * The Future; * Justice is in the Design: Creating a Restorative Justice Treatment Model for Domestic Violence, Peggy Grauwiler, Nicole Pezold, and Linda G. Mills; * An Alternative Theory of Justice; * The Problem of Safety in Treating Intimate Abuse; * Domestic Violence: New Visions, New Solutions, Cathy Young, Philip Cook, Sheila Smith, Jack Turteltaub, Lonnie Hazlewood; * Arrest and prosecution; * Restraining orders; * Batterer intervention and victim counseling; * Family violence: new visions, new solutions.

About the Author

John Hamel, LCSW, has been a court-certified Batterer Intervention Provider since 1992. His clinical services include family violence assessments and treatment programsfor abusive men, women, and families. Mr. Hamel has provided consultation and training to mental health professionals, batterer intervention providers, victim advocates, attorneys and law enforcement, and has served as an expert court witness in criminal and family law courts.

Tonia L. Nicholls, PhD, is currently Senior Research Fellow, Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, BC Mental Health and Addictions Services and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Simon Fraser University. Her scholarly work has earned her "Brain Star" awards from the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addictions, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; the Canadian Psychological Association President's New Researcher Award; and the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution by a Graduate Student."