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Interventions with Men who are Violent to their Partners: Strategies for Early Engagement
Author(s) -
Adams Peter J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2012.00320.x
Subject(s) - collusion , domestic violence , psychological intervention , privilege (computing) , dilemma , intervention (counseling) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , social psychology , power (physics) , face (sociological concept) , perception , criminology , poison control , suicide prevention , computer security , sociology , medicine , psychiatry , medical emergency , computer science , business , social science , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , industrial organization , neuroscience , programming language
Practitioners who view intimate partner violence as a set of strategies aimed at maintaining positions of power and privilege often face an engagement dilemma when men at their first contact talk of themselves as disempowered by circumstances such as separation, loss of access to children, legal problems, substance abuse issues, and their own history of being abused. This paper explores how a language‐oriented approach to violence can assist practitioners in responding to abuser’s current perceptions while avoiding collusion with justifications for violence. It examines common ways of speaking that men will employ to justify their violence then explores practical ways to identify and neutralized these messages before exploring personal opportunities for change.