Group Treatment for Aggressive Women: An Initial Evaluation Export

@article{citeulike:6081850, abstract = {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.}, author = {Tutty, Leslie and Babins-Wagner, Robbie and Rothery, Michael}, citeulike-article-id = {6081850}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9030-6}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/y7x72r12h63h6344}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/s10896-006-9030-6}, journal = {Journal of Family Violence}, keywords = {aggressive\_women, assertiveness, calgary\_counseling\_centre, group\_treatment, physical\_aggression, psychiatric\_diagnosis, psychiatric\_patients, test\_group, violent, violent\_behavior, violent\_patients, women}, month = {July}, number = {5}, pages = {341--349}, posted-at = {2009-11-07 06:05:28}, priority = {5}, title = {Group Treatment for Aggressive Women: An Initial Evaluation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9030-6}, volume = {21}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6081850 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6081850 N2 - 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. IS - 5 JF - Journal of Family Violence EP - 349 TI - Group Treatment for Aggressive Women: An Initial Evaluation VL - 21 SP - 341 KW - aggressive_women KW - assertiveness KW - calgary_counseling_centre KW - group_treatment KW - physical_aggression KW - psychiatric_diagnosis KW - psychiatric_patients KW - test_group KW - violent KW - violent_behavior KW - violent_patients KW - women AU - Tutty, Leslie AU - Babins-Wagner, Robbie AU - Rothery, Michael PY - 2006/07/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-006-9030-6 ER -