Female-perpetrated family violence-Effectiveness of a psychodynamic group intervention

Health Care Women Int. 2019 Mar;40(3):328-344. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2018.1548622. Epub 2018 Dec 31.

Abstract

We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a Finnish psychodynamic group intervention developed for female family-violence perpetrators. The participants voluntarily sought help after using family violence against a partner, child, or both and did not have acute mental health or substance abuse problems. The data sample consisted 134 women before the intervention, 128 women after the 15-week intervention, and 110 at the 6-month follow-up. We found that there were changes in women's self-knowledge and reduce in family-violence behavior, both of these outcomes persisted after 6 months. Our results may be used to develop low-threshold, preventive interventions for female family-violence perpetrators.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Domestic Violence / psychology*
  • Female
  • Finland
  • Humans
  • Intimate Partner Violence / psychology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychotherapy, Group / methods*
  • Sexual Partners / psychology
  • Spouse Abuse / psychology
  • Spouse Abuse / therapy*
  • Young Adult