title: The San Diego Navy experiment: an assessment of interventions for men who assault their wives.
abstract: Three different 12-month interventions for servicemen who had been substantiated as having physically assaulted their wives were used and the outcomes examined. The 861 couples of the study were randomly assigned to 4 groups: a men's group, a conjoint group, a rigorously monitored group, and a control group. Cognitive-behavioral interventions were implemented for the men's and conjoint groups, and outcome data were gathered from male perpetrators and female victims at roughly 6-month intervals over the approximately 18-month experimental period. Data analyses revealed nonsignificant differences between the experimental groups over a variety of outcome measures.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309, USA.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Dunford
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology; D002140:California; D019090:Case Management; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D003376:Counseling; D019546:Couples Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012008:Recurrence; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome