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Foundations for Violence-Free Living: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Men's Domestic Abuse Groups

by David J. Mathews
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Foundations for Violence-Free Living: A Step-by-Step Guide to Facilitating Men's Domestic Abuse Groups gives you everything you need to facilitate effective men's domestic abuse groups. Whether you want to start a group or enhance your current program, this guide and participant's workbook provide complete tools for facilitating a domestic abuse treatment program with proven success. Foundations for Violence-Free Living distills the best of fifteen years of experience by one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive domestic abuse programs.
This practical guide includes: 1) twenty-nine activities accompanied by forty-nine worksheets—pick and choose the activities and worksheets that best fit your clientele, your program, and the strengths of your facilitators; 2) extensive preparation for each activity, including how to present it, what worksheets are required, and most important, the issues each activity is likely to raise and how to respond to them; 3) proven techniques for reversing denial and blaming, changing the behavior of resistant clients, dealing with chemical use in group, serving a diverse clientele, and other special issues; 4) guidelines for program consistency, from a philosophy of violence, to intake and individual counseling, to recommended policies and releases, to suggestions for facilitating groups; and 5) how to co-facilitate, and why we recommend a male/female facilitation team. 

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Book details

Author
David Mathews
Imprint
Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Formats
Paperback
Subjects
Family & Relationships › Abuse
Business & Economics › Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
Topics
men's behavior change · abuse intervention · group facilitation · domestic violence prevention · nonprofit programs · family relationships
ISBN-13
9780940069053

About the author

DAVID J. MATHEWS, MA, LICSW, is a counselor with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Community Assistance Program in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a therapist with the Judson Family Center in Minneapolis. He is the author of Foundations for Violence-Free Living: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facilitating Men’s Domestic Abuse Groups and its companion workbook On the Level: Foundations for Violence-Free Living.

Mathews holds a master’s degree and licensure as an independent clinical social worker. At the time of publication, he was a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

When not writing, Mathews consults with and trains local, state, and national organizations on violence intervention and prevention in communities and schools in the St. Paul metropolitan area. His work directly informs his writing on domestic abuse and men’s parenting groups.

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Format: Paperback