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01.07.2006 | Original Article

Group Treatment for Aggressive Women: An Initial Evaluation

verfasst von: Leslie M. Tutty, Robbie Babins-Wagner, Michael A. Rothery

Erschienen in: Journal of Family Violence | Ausgabe 5/2006

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Abstract

There is virtually no information or research on group treatment for women who may behave abusively to intimate partners. The Calgary Counseling Centre has offered a group treatment program for such clients, Responsible Choices for Women, over the past several years. This paper describes the group format, the demographic characteristics of the 64 women who began the group, and a comparison of those who completed treatment versus those who dropped out. The pre/mid/post-test group evaluation utilized measures of physical and non-physical partner abuse, self-esteem, depression, clinical stress, marital satisfaction, family relations, locus of control, sex roles, and assertiveness. The repeated measures analysis on data from 33 women found statistically significant improvements on non-physical abuse of partner, clinical stress, generalized contentment, self-esteem and assertiveness, using a conservative p-value of .009, given the use of multiple tests. Clinical implications of these results are described.

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Titel: Group Treatment for Aggressive Women: An Initial Evaluation
verfasst von: Leslie M. Tutty
Robbie Babins-Wagner
Michael A. Rothery
Publikationsdatum: 01.07.2006
Verlag: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Erschienen in: Journal of Family Violence / Ausgabe 5/2006
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9030-6

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