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Co-Editors on these projects:
Catherine A. Simmons Peter, Lehmann, PhD
Reference Lehmann, P. & Simmons, C.A. (in press). Strength’s Based Batterers Intervention: A New Paradigm in Ending Family Violence. New York: Springer Publishing.
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Scheduled for publication in 2009, the edited book Strength’s Based Batterers Intervention: A New Paradigm in Ending Family Violence incorporates strength’s based practice models and theoretical proposals into one text BIP providers can use as reference and guide for practice. |
Project Summary |
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Strengths-Based intervention with Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) offenders is a new direction for Batterers Intervention Programs (BIP) that is based on the helping profession’s changing paradigm of focusing on how people achieve health and wellbeing, not simply thwart problems and illness.
Different from traditional approaches grounded in deficits and punishment, Strength’s Based BIP elicits change through focusing on those attributes the IPV offending client values and views as their personal strengths.
Not a “one-size-fits all” approach, Strengths-Based BIP recognizes that each IPV offender uses violence differently and for different reasons. Thus, different methods are needed to help change the lives of each IPV offender so they can (and want) to live a nonabusive/nonviolent lifestyle.
From these ideas the book Strength’s Based Batterers Intervention: A New Paradigm in Ending Family Violence was derived. |
