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Success with court-referred clients
Facilitating groups for court-referred clients can be hard work: The truth is, of course, that they are criminals, an indication that they may have lousy attitudes and rebel against authority — not qualities that make them stellar ... continue reading »
Writing for the Men's Resource Center of West Michigan, I published an article exhorting men to create an organization on a national level that will prevent violent masculinity and create liberated men with new senses of integrity and ... continue reading »
One of Therapist Outfitters' core missions is providing training materials for therapists and counselors leading batterer intervention groups, such as Interventions for Men who Abuse Women: Worksheets for Facilitating Domestic Abuse Groups.
To help us respond to the ... continue reading »
As therapists, we are often so consumed with our day-to-day practices that we fail to analyze the sources of our client base and our pattern of responses to them. Lynn Grodzki has been a mentor to many, providing insight into the machinations of referral sources while advocating that therapists make ... continue reading »
The Intervention Alliance
Although increasingly varied in their approach to working with abusive men, batterer intervention services (BIS) adhere to best practice that emphasizes (1) safety for women (2) accountability for abusive behavior and (3) the exclusion of protocols that might lead group facilitators to collude with batterers. BIS facilitators use ... continue reading »