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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrator Subtypes and their Developmental Origins: Implications for Prevention and Intervention
Author(s) -
Bernardi Jessica,
Day Andrew
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1111
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , domestic violence , psychology , set (abstract data type) , project commissioning , criminology , social psychology , publishing , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , poison control , political science , psychiatry , medicine , law , medical emergency , computer science , programming language
Intimate partner violence ( IPV ) is a major issue for many Australian families and yet progress towards the development of effective prevention and behaviour change programs has been relatively slow. In this paper, it is proposed that the tendency to treat perpetrators as a homogenous group has hampered progress, and that treatment outcomes can be improved by tailoring treatment responses to a small set of personal and offence‐related characteristics. It explores the developmental origins and trajectories of these presentations and identifies some new directions for further research in this area.