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O’Connor, Amanda, Morris, Heather, Panayiotidis, Anastasia, Cooke, Victoria and Skouteris, Helen (2021) Rapid review of men’s behavior change programs. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22 (5). pp. 1068-1085. doi:10.1177/1524838020906527 ISSN 1524-8380.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838020906527
Abstract
Family violence is recognized as the violence toward a family member that is threatening, coercive, controlling, dominating, and causes people to fear for their safety and well-being; this complex problem primarily affects women and children. In order to enhance women and children’s safety, Men’s Behavior Change Programs (MBCPs) aim to achieve change in perpetrators’ violent behaviors, by making men accountable and responsible for their actions. The objective of this rapid review was to examine MBCP content, implementation, and the impact on participant and family outcomes. Thirteen articles and 10 MBCPs were identified, using PRISMA guidelines, electronic database searches, and an inclusion criteria of English peer-reviewed articles examining MBCPs or domestic violence perpetrator programs with male perpetrators of family/domestic/intimate partner violence as program participants. The findings of this review indicated a limited evidence base of detailed MBCP evaluations. Information relating to program content was included for nine MBCPs and covered a wide range of topics. None of the articles examined the links between men’s accountability and responsibility to the safety and well-being of women and children. Also, none of the articles included assessments of integrity of program delivery, system processes, or evaluations based on program logics. Positive changes were reported for MBCP participants, including communication, parenting, interpersonal relationships, aggression, abuse, responsibility for behavior, self-awareness power and control tactics, empathy, skills development, cognitive beliefs, behavior control, and abusiveness patterns. A whole family approach was utilized by some of the programs and one article reported on family outcomes.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women -- Violence against -- Australia, Intimate partner violence , Family violence | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Trauma, Violence, & Abuse | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1524-8380 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1068-1085 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1524838020906527 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the Accepted Version of: O’Connor A, Morris H, Panayiotidis A, Cooke V, Skouteris H. Rapid Review of Men’s Behavior Change Programs. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse. 2021;22(5):1068-1085, and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 August 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 August 2022 |
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