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Treating marital violence within intact couple relationships: outcomes of multi-couple versus individual couple therapy
Alternative Title:Treating intimate partner violence within intact couple relationships: Outcomes of multi-couple versus individual couple therapy.
An experimental design was used to determine outcomes of a domestic violence-focused treatment program for couples that choose to stay together after mild-to-moderate violence has occurred. Forty-four couples were randomly assigned to either individual couple or multi-couple group treatment. Nine couples served as the comparison group. Male violence recidivism rates six-months after treatment were significantly lower for the multi-couple group (25%) than for the comparison group (66%). In contrast, men in the individual couple condition were not significantly less likely to recidivate (43%) than those in the comparison group. Likewise, marital satisfaction increased significantly, and both marital aggression and acceptance of wife battering decreased significantly among individuals who participated in multi-couple group therapy, but not among those who participated in individual couple therapy or the comparison group.
Keywords: Domestic violence; Couples treatment for domestic violence; Multi-couple treatment for domestic violence; Intimate partner violence
Journal:Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume:30, Issue:3, Starting Page:305, Ending Page:318
Rights:This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Stith, S. M., Rosen, K. H., McCollum, E. E., & Thomsen, C. J. (2004). Treating intimate partner violence within intact couple relationships: Outcomes of multi-couple versus individual couple therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 30(3), 305-318., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2004.tb01242.x/abstract
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