title: Client personality disorders affecting wife assault post-treatment recidivism.
abstract: Previous evaluations of wife assault treatment outcome have focused generically on whether groups "succeed" or not without a clear criterion of what constituted success. The present study examines the question for whom groups generate the greatest reduction in post-treatment abuse and for whom they work least well. It was found that certain types of personality disordered men had the worst post-treatment prognosis. Specifically, men with high scores on borderline personality, antisocial personality, and avoidant personality fared least well after treatment. However, taken as a generic group, men in treatment had significantly reduced post-treatment abusiveness whether reported by themselves or their wives.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Dutton
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bodnarchuk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kropp
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ogloff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D001955:British Columbia; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*