Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. RESEARCH AND THEORY -- 1 Domestic Violence: A Gender-Inclusive Conception -- Interventions Should Be Based on a Thorough, Unbiased Assessment -- All Treatment Modalities and Options Should Be Considered, Based on the Facts of the Individual Case -- Both Men and Women Can Be Victims and/or Perpetrators, and Everyone Is Responsible for His or Her Behavior -- The Causes of Partner Abuse Are Varied but Similar Across Genders -- Victim/Perpetrator Distinctions Are Overstated, and Much Partner Abuse Is Mutual -- Both Genders Are Physically and Emotionally Impacted By Abuse -- "Gender Inclusive" Does Not Mean "Gender Neutral" or "Gender Equal -- The Gender-Inclusive Approach Is a Feminist Approach -- Regardless of Perpetrator Gender, Child Witnesses to Partner Abuse Are Adversely Affected and Are at Risk for Perpetrating Partner Abuse and Becoming Victimized as Adults -- Family Violence Is a Complex Phenomenon, With Reciprocal Interactions Between the Individual Members -- Conclusion -- 2 Thinking Outside the Box: Gender and Court-Mandated Therapy -- The Therapeutic Problem With the Duluth Model -- The Theoretical Problem With the Duluth Model -- Anger and Violence -- Subtypes of Perpetrators -- Treatment Outcome Studies of the Duluth Model -- Expanded Targets for Perpetrator Treatment -- Treatment of Female Batterers -- Couple Violence and Treatment -- Interactional Studies -- Couples Therapy -- 3 Risk Factors for Physical Violence Between Dating Partners: Implications for Gender-Inclusive Prevention and Treatment of Family Violence -- Relevance of Information on Dating Partners -- Previous Research on Gender Differences in Risk Factors -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- 4 Power and Control in Relationship Aggression -- Terminology.

Consequences of Controlling Behavior -- Theories of Controlling Behavior -- Empirical Research on Controlling Behaviors and Partner Violence: Women's Shelter and Batterer Intervention Studies -- Scales That Measure Controlling Behaviors: A Selected Review -- Implications of the Controlling Behavior Literature -- 5 Intimate Stalking and Partner Violence -- Stalking Defined -- Stalking in the Context of Breakup -- Courtship Stalking and Its Link to Breakup Stalking -- Issues of Gender in Stalking and Partner Violence -- Clinical Implications of Stalking -- 6 Couple Violence: A New Look at Some Old Fallacies -- Women and Violence -- The Levels-of-Analysis Issue -- Male Potential for Abuse -- 7 Partner Violence Typologies -- Theories of Partner Violence -- Typology Theory and Research -- 8 The Impact of Domestic Violence on Children's Development -- Child Adaptation to Domestic Violence: The Context of Interparental Interactions -- Mediating Mechanisms Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence -- Moderating Conditions Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence -- Bidirectional Processes Underlying the Risk of Domestic Violence -- Summary and Implications -- 9 Family Lessons in Attachment and Aggression: The Impact of Interparental Violence on Adolescent Adjustment -- Developmental Pathways to Aggression and Violence -- Exposure to Family Violence: Implications for Youth Aggression -- Lessons Learned From Interparental Violence -- Do the Effects of Maternal Versus Paternal IPV on Daughters and Sons Differ? -- Implications for Future Research -- From Research to Prevention and Intervention -- 10 The Evolution of Battering Interventions: From the Dark Ages Into the Scientific Age -- What We Know About Psychotherapy in General May Inform Batterers' Interventions -- Grassroots Movement -- Why Doesn't the Feminist Psychoeducational Model Work Better?.

Is the Duluth Model Set Up to Fail? -- On the Road Toward the Scientific Era -- Where Do We Go From Here? -- Different Formats for Interventions -- Who Should Be Targeted in Interventions for Domestic Violence? -- Interventions for Situational Violence -- Interventions for Characterological Violence -- Tailoring for Specific Cultural Groups -- Women Arrested for Domestic Violence -- Conclusions -- PART II. ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT -- 11 Gender-Inclusive Family Interventions in Domestic Violence: An Overview -- The Evolution of Family Interventions -- The Gender-Inclusive Approach -- Case Examples -- 12 Violence Risk Assessments With Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Abuse -- Pitfalls to Avoid in Conducting Risk Assessments: Judgment Errors in Human Decision Making and Cognitive Simplification Strategies That Can Backfire -- Methods for Reducing Reliance on Heuristics and Biases to Improving Decision-Making Accuracy -- General Approaches to Violence Risk Assessment: An Overview of Leading Methods -- Assessing Men and Women for Risk of Perpetrating Abuse in Intimate Relationships -- The Value of Violence Risk Assessment Instruments Developed to Assess General Offending -- Conclusions and Implications -- 13 Male Victims of Domestic Violence -- Addressing the Problem of Male Victims of Domestic Violence -- Obstacle 1: Men and Patriarchy -- Obstacle 2: Feminism -- Obstacle 3: Gender Politics -- Treating the Male Victim of Domestic Violence -- 14 Domestic Violence in Ethnocultural Minority Groups -- North American Native American Communities -- African American Communities -- Hispanic/Latino Communities -- Asian American Communities -- Conclusions -- 15 Systems Considerations in Working With Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders -- A Developing Clinical Perspective -- The Criminal Justice Response -- Treatment Approaches to Domestic Violence.

Group Treatment -- Case Example 1 -- Case Example 2 -- 16 Treatment of Psychological and Physical Aggression in a Couple Context -- Who Are Appropriate Candidates for Treating Aggression Conjointly? -- What Evidence Supports a Couple-Based Approach? -- Arguments for Treating Psychological and Physical Aggression in a Couple Context -- Screening Appropriate Clients for Couple Treatment -- A Dyadic Treatment Model -- Overview of Treatment Program -- Initial Stages of Treatment -- Midstages of Treatment -- Follow-Up -- 17 Couple Violence and Couple Safety: A Systemic and Attachment-Oriented Approach to Working With Complexity and Uncertainty -- Building a Safe Context for Practice -- Complexity and Uncertainty: Working With Jane and John -- 18 Dangerous Dances: Treatment of Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Couples -- Overview of Violence in Lesbian and Gay Couples -- Assessment -- Treatment -- Case Example: Joel and Martin -- Summary -- 19 Treatment of Family Violence: A Systemic Perspective -- Why We Commit Violence Against the People We Love -- Our Splintered Response to Family Violence -- A Family-Systems Approach -- How Does Attachment Theory Help Us Treat Family Violence? -- What About the Children? -- Balancing Safety and Family Therapy -- The Advantages of Family Therapy -- The Therapist's Stance -- Treating "Perpetrators" and "Victims" -- Calming Our Own Anxiety -- 20 Anger, Aggression, Domestic Violence, and Substance Abuse -- Common Themes, Situations, and Messages for Families in Which Both Family Violence and Substance Abuse Are Co-Occurring Problems -- The Challenge to Core Paradigms in Both Fields -- Possible Relationships Between Alcoholism/Substance Abuse and Anger/Aggression/Domestic Abuse -- Research Correlations Between Substance Abuse and Domestic Violence -- Types of Domestic Abusers and Substance Abuse -- Assessment Questions.

Case Study: An Angry Man Who Becomes Dangerous to His Wife When He Drinks -- Case Study of an Angry and Violent "Needy" Woman -- Case Study of a Family With Violence and Substance Abuse Issues: "Who Gets to Throw the Turkey This Year?" -- Summary -- 21 Therapy With Clients Accused of Domestic Violence in Disputed Child Custody Cases -- One Size Doesn't Fit All -- Case Examples -- Conclusion -- 22 Family Therapy and Interpersonal Violence: Targeting At-Risk Adolescent Mothers -- Parenting Interventions With Adolescent Mothers -- Intimate Partner Relationship Interventions With Adolescent Mothers -- The Building a Lasting Love Relationship Intervention -- Future Directions -- 23 Family Group Therapy: A Domestic Violence Program for Youth and Parents -- Background and Justification -- Neidig and Friedman's Domestic Violence Program -- Research Design -- Results -- Discussion -- Discussion of Differences -- Directions for Future Research -- 24 Family Violence Parent Groups -- John Hamel & Associates -- Peace Creations -- 25 Healing Child Victims and Their Parents in the Aftermath of Family Violence -- Popular Terminology: The Buzzwords -- Changing the Impact Abuse Has on Parent-Child Relationships -- Generating Plans to Meet Children's Goals -- 26 Gender-Inclusive Work With Victims and Their Children in a Coed Shelter -- The Shelter Movement -- The Valley Oasis Shelter: Origins -- The Coed Model -- Cooperation With Law Enforcement and Batterer Intervention Programs -- Responses From the Domestic Violence Community -- Responses From Victims and Their Families -- Services -- Addressing Safety Concerns -- Clinical Services -- Case Examples -- Postdischarge Services -- The Future -- 27 Justice Is in the Design: Creating a Restorative Justice Treatment Model for Domestic Violence -- An Alternative Theory of Justice.

The Problem of Safety in Treating Intimate Abuse.