Ending Men's Violence against Their Partners: One Road to Peace

This comprehensive, clinical book is designed as a practice guide to lead the counsellor working with violent men through the specifics of the counselling process from beginning to end. Instructing the reader in particular clinical skills, strategies and programme content, the authors present a group treatment programme as the treatment of choice but also describe individual assessment and counselling. They start by examining current theory and research and identifying the most salient factors in understanding men who assault their partners. Stordeur and Stille then detail preparatory work, including first contact and assessment prior to entering a counselling programme, and examine crisis intervention work. There is then a focus on group therapy with a detailed treatment manual. Treatment themes are organized as modules so that readers may adopt the entire programme or parts of the programme when designing their own. Finally, the authors explore the personal and interpersonal effects of working with violent men.