title: Non-Violent Empowerment: Self-Help Group for Male Batterers on Recovery.
abstract: This research focused on a new and unique therapy group for male batterers who were violent toward their intimate partners. The group is based on a small self-help group model, where a professional accompanies the group and serves as the facilitator of the process undergone by the group without interfering with the management of the group and its meetings. A total of seven group members were interviewed in a qualitative and phenomenological-interpretive research, which combined an outside observation by two authors with an inside observation by a professional who facilitated the group. The study focused on the method of empowerment of the group members, and it found three central themes: self-efficacy, group efficacy, and social efficacy. The research findings are explained from the new perspective of positive criminology.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Dudi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.affiliation: 2 Domestic Violence Treatment and Prevention Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Avri
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Natti
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ronel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012657:Self-Help Groups
keywords: domestic violence; male batterers; positive criminology; self-help