Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Typologies of men who area maritally violent: scientific and clinical implications
Other Titles:	Journal of interpersonal violence
Authors:	Meehan, Jeffrey C Holtzworth-Munroe, Amy
Keywords:	Early intervention;Perpetrators;Counselling;Theories of violence;Risk factors
Topic:	Perpetrator interventions
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	19 (12), December 2004
Notes:	This article refers to studies where batterer subtypes, proposed by Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart in 1994, have generally been found to differ in predicted ways. Longitudinal data from this US study suggest that the subgroups continued to differ over 3 years. Three subtypes of batterers were identified: (i) family-only (FO) batterers were predicted to engage in the least marital violence, and the least violence outside the home; (ii) dysphoric or borderline (DB) batterers were predicted to engage in moderate to severe wife abuse but not much violence outside the home, being the most psychologically distressed and the most likely to have borderline personality characteristics; and (iii) generally violent and antisocial (GVA) batterers were predicted to engage in moderate to severe levels of marital violence, the highest levels of extrafamilial violence, and were the most likely to show antisocial personality disorder (e.g. criminal behaviour, arrests, substance abuse). Intrapersonal theories of aggression were integrated into a developmental model of the differing types of husband violence, including proximal correlates and correlates of male violence as risk factors for differing batterer subtypes. The placement of men into some subtypes was found not to be stable over time. Clinical issues are discussed including the use of the typology to predict treatment outcome and to match interventions to the subtypes.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/12415
ISSN:	0886-2605
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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