Fathers for Change: A New Approach to Working with Fathers Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Legal and social service systems rarely acknowledge the status of men as fathers in the conceptualization and delivery of interventions for intimate partner violence (IPV). Large percentages of men who are arrested and mandated to intervention programs for IPV are fathers who continue to live with or have consistent contact with their young children despite aggression and substance use. There are currently no evidence-based treatments that address co-morbid substance abuse and domestic violence perpetration with emphasis on paternal parenting for fathers. This paper will describe the components of a new intervention, Fathers for Change, which addresses the co-morbidity of substance abuse, domestic violence, and poor parenting for fathers of young children. Fathers for Change is unique in its focus on the paternal role throughout treatment. A case example and initial feasibility of the intervention will be described to provide an understanding of the key ingredients and the gap this intervention could fill in the field once tested in efficacy trials.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, v. 41, issue 1, p. 65-71
Scholar Commons Citation
Stover, Carla Smith, "Fathers for Change: A New Approach to Working with Fathers Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence" (2013). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 809.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/809
