{"id":1387,"date":"2017-10-22T21:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T21:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-10-22T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T21:39:50","slug":"battery-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/battery-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Is Battering?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Battering includes multiple types of psychological, physical, and\/or\u00a0sexual abuses such as physical violence, manipulation, threats,\u00a0emotional abuse, intimidation, economic coercion, isolation, and\/or the\u00a0assertion of privilege.<\/p>\n

In many cases, battering is not the result of mental illness, anger, or the\u00a0influence of drugs or alcohol. Rather, it is a learned behavior that is\u00a0often motivated by the conscious or unconscious desire of the abusive\u00a0partner to control the victim. Typically, battering is purposeful behavior,\u00a0although sometimes people demonstrate impulsive, angry behavior, or\u00a0an inability to control their emotions.<\/p>\n

Men who are abusive often lash out at their spouses or partners with\u00a0the intent of enforcing what they believe to be their rights, but that\u00a0they are generally able to keep from reacting in an abusive manner\u00a0when individuals other than their children or wives do not meet their\u00a0expectations. This behavior is rooted in logic, demonstrating\u00a0rationalization that makes it less likely that battering behavior stems\u00a0from a mental illness.<\/p>\n

These programs aim to help those who batter to change their attitudes\u00a0regarding domestic violence and develop empathy for their victims, in\u00a0the case of many males ordered to attend, their attitudes regarding\u00a0women.<\/p>\n

What Are Batterer Intervention Programs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The most states, in the late 1980s, had begun to arrest and prosecute\u00a0perpetrators of domestic violence, the need for a greater number of\u00a0comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation programs was realized.\u00a0Batterer intervention programs are still relatively new, but they have\u00a0evolved significantly since their original development in order to protect\u00a0victims, better serve the community, and further decrease recidivism.\u00a0Increased funding for these programs in some areas may allow services\u00a0to be extended to men who do not speak English, teen boys, and\u00a0abusive partners in same-sex relationships. A few programs are also\u00a0available for women who abuse their partners.<\/p>\n

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By many batterer intervention programs are considered to be an\u00a0important part of a comprehensive approach to domestic violence, and\u00a0many courts order offenders to attend these programs while on\u00a0probation for a domestic violence offense. The goal of these\u00a0intervention programs is to teach abusive partners to identify and\u00a0self-monitor negative thoughts, develop empathy for their victims and\u00a0to identify and interrupt the negative self-talk that often precedes\u00a0incidences of violence, in order to prevent further abuse.<\/p>\n

The programs also aim to teach gender equality in relationships and\u00a0typically teach participants to take responsibility for the abuse, and find\u00a0alternatives to violence, identify various forms of abuse, recognize and\u00a0detail the type of abuse they have engaged in, often helping participants\u00a0learn to develop a no abusive response to behavior that they might\u00a0ordinarily respond to in an abusive manner.<\/p>\n

Program data indicate that 80% of participants are referred through the\u00a0justice system, even an individual may voluntarily participate in a\u00a0batterer intervention program. Most states regulate these programs by\u00a0requiring certification standards, which may be guidelines or may be\u00a0legally binding the program chooses to follow. Some states fund these\u00a0programs, and programs run from 24-26 weeks on average, though in\u00a0some states they are as short as 12 weeks, and in others as long as\u00a052 weeks.<\/p>\n

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What Is Battering? Battering includes multiple types of psychological, physical, and\/or\u00a0sexual abuses such as physical violence, manipulation, threats,\u00a0emotional abuse, intimidation, economic coercion, isolation, and\/or the\u00a0assertion of privilege. In many cases, battering is not the result of mental illness, anger, or the\u00a0influence of drugs or alcohol. Rather, it is a learned behavior that is\u00a0often motivated by… Read More »Battery Intervention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[147,199,200,711],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse","tag-batterer-intervention","tag-battering","tag-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fksg.org\/test1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}