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Stepping Stones and Creating Futures: A group‐based approach to addressing violence against women through working with men
Author(s) -
Gibbs Andrew,
Mkhwanazi Smanga,
Sikweyiya Yandisa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.23293
Subject(s) - shame , anger , psychological intervention , psychology , domestic violence , intervention (counseling) , futures contract , aggression , social psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , economics , financial economics
In low‐ and middle‐income countries, group‐based interventions to address intimate partner violence (IPV) working with men, whether or not they are violent themselves, are increasingly common. Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SSCF) is one intervention demonstrating reductions in men's perpetration of IPV through working with men around gender inequalities and livelihoods. Using a case study of Thembani, a young man living in an urban informal settlement in South Africa who was a participant within a large randomized controlled trial evaluating SSCF, we discuss how his use of violence changed. This reduction occurred through recognition that his situation was not a personal failing, but similar to others, thus reducing the shame he felt, learning to control his anger, and starting to understand how others felt when he used his power over others. This case study provides some initial evidence about how group‐based interventions working with men may start to transform men's practices.