Supplemental Mental Health Treatment For Batterer Program Participants. Final Report

摘要

The relationship between mental health problems and committing domestic violence is a controversial one. Some practitioners in the domestic violence field argue that domestic violence is, at worst, compounded by mental problems but not directly linked to them. Other clinicians assert that domestic violence is more directly linked to psychopathology, and mental problems need to be directly addressed to reduce the reoccurrence of violence. Research on participants in so-called batterer programs for domestic violence perpetrators shows men with evidence of psychopathology are more likely to re-assault their female partners, but no distinct profile of psychopathology has been identified. It may be that the psychopathology is directly linked to the violence or that the psychopathology makes perpetrators less responsive to batterer programs.