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Jim Pretzer · 8/27/99 at 10:42 pm ET
I'm not sure we disagree. Please note that two posts earlier in this thread I said "CT with marital violence involves much more than working with the perpetrator on anger management. First, it is important to assess the dangerousness of the situation and determine whether we need to focus on protecting the victim and extricating her (usually it is the woman who is in danger) from a dangerous situation. If it turns out that the situation is not that dangerous and that the couple's goal is to try to preserve the relationship, there will probably be a number of issues in addition to anger management. For example, the perpetrator may well have impulse control and substance abuse issues which need to be addressed the victim may have their own issues that need to be addressed, and the couple may have some dysfunctional interaction patterns which need to be addressed. However, often it is important to work with one or both of the couple on anger management." Obviously, if either member of the couple is unable to be honest in therapy session due to the threat of retaliation or for other reasons, couple therapy isn't likely to be very productive and may well be dangerous for the abused spouse. Also, remember that I'm working with a different population than you are. With the couples I see, incidents of abuse are usually isolated explosions of anger but I'm working with a middle-class private-practice population. In a prison setting such as you work in, the population is quite different.
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