Type:	Conference Paper
Title:	Targetting, constructing and evaluating intervention programs for men who are violent - a multi-level inquiry into current practice standards
Other Titles:	Men and relationships : partnerships in progress : Sydney, 20-21 November 2000
Authors:	Bartholomew, Terry MacKenzie, Rachel
Keywords:	Perpetrators;Theories of violence
Year:	2000
Publisher:	Partnerships Against Domestic Violence Dept. of Family and Community Services
Notes:	Explores some of the challenges involved in conducting and evaluating behaviour change programmes for violent men. The first section highlights some of the practical, programmatic and theoretical questions raised by the separation and potential integration of programmes targeting perpetrators of family violence and those targeting perpetrators of other forms of violence. REVAMP, a programme within the correctional system which is provided to the Victorian Department of Justice by the Forensic Psychology Program at Deakin University, Melbourne, for men who are violent domestically or otherwise, is used as an illustration. It is argued that similarities, rather than grounds for division, between generalist and specific programmes should be sought by practitioners. The second section provides an analysis of this overlap from the perspective of an evaluator, again using REVAMP as an example. Some of the major substantive and methodological issues for practitioners conducting programme evaluations are considered, including the use of control groups, measures for evaluating programme efficacy and clearly establishing the purpose and goals of the programme.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/20996
Appears in Collections:	Conference Papers

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